Friend of the state, or enemy of the people...

Who even wants to see us?

'I don't know why I survived. Maybe it's a miracle. Some died of desperation. Some went insane. Some of them lost their minds.' (Urrea, 168)

How do the Americans view the troubled Mexicans, who are burdened with the troubling choice between flight and death?

'Burrito, taco - it's foreign to them, invented on the border.
They were aliens before they even crossed.' (Urrea 40)

'Agents take visitors in there and point to the photos of cracked, dirty walls, and say thing like 'There's Mecca'.' (Urrea 80)

The Devil's Highway - a 600 mile beaten down path that immigrants travel every day. The ground is littered with trinkets and dead bodies.