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File Size: 2130 KB
Print Length: 276 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; 1 edition (October 23, 2008)
Publication Date: November 16, 2008
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Language: English
ASIN: B000SETE5K
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This book really opened my eyes to 1. Why people come to America illegally, 2. What people will do out of desperation to help their families, and 3. How governments in both Mexico and the US have failed these individuals. This book is sad and sometimes painfully graphic to read, but especially in today’s political climate should be required reading.
Urrea tells the story of a group of men who risked their lives trying to enter the US - illegally, a journey that was tragically fatal for half of them. In the process he exposes the culture, the policies, the institutions and the people involved in immigration on our southern border. The information he shares is well documented. It reveals the hardships and dangers of the journey, the network of corruption that operates underground promising safe passage for a price, and all of the legal systems involved in preventing illegal border crossing, but of greatest interest to me, he portrays the many people involved, in all of the various roles, as human beings with all the same kinds of characteristics you might imagine having yourself. The Boston Globe reviewer, Tom Montgomery Fate, wrote of the book: "Urrea writes about US-Mexican border culture with a tragic and beautiful intimacy that has no equal."
Dying for a Drink of Water would be a good alternate title. Feeling sorrow and understanding for “all†the players in the tragedy. My deepest heartfelt sympathies to the families of those poor, brave men who died.Now Iï¸ will need to research and study why citizens of Mexico from these small villages are so poor they risk crossing. Just way too sad. Urrea gives enlightening statistics on correcting the false information about how much it costs to absorb “illegals†into the USA.
It's an interesting story, worth a read. The book is sometimes hard to follow; there are huge jumps back and forth in time and characters. In addition to these jumps, the varied pieces of information often seem scattered and some are never pulled together in the overall story. The author, multiple times, completely vilifies Border Patrol Agents. The author's wild accusations of misdeeds by Agents are never backed up by any evidence; they seem more like folk lure tales that illegal immigrants will understandably repeat and spread, but are simply untrue. For a book that is largely written as a documentary, why include these tall tales that are not, and most likely can't be, substantiated?
A book that hooks you from the start, is well written, and enlightening. Urrea shows how the issue of illegal immigration is both too simplistic (thinking a wall will solve our problems) and too complicated (forgetting the shared humanity) on both sides of the political spectrum.Thus book will challenge you long after you finish reading.
This is a book I would not have chosen to read and in fact the first few pages confirmed my fear it would be a depressing book about a depressing subject. I was wrong. The book had been chosen by my book group so I had to persist. Soon the book became surprisingly compelling even though the gruesome end was never in doubt. The author brilliantly tells the true story of a group of men who died (or nearly died) in the Arizona desert in May 2001.Luis Alberto Urrea does so by revealing meaningful details about all the people in this tragic event. He displays the diverse backgrounds of the Mexicans crossing the border--giving a visceral understanding or where they were actually and metaphorically coming from. The book might have stopped there with an emotional story of their pain and suffering and their appalling ignorance of the desert (many of the men had come from the lush wet tropics and had no idea of the importance of simple things like wearing a hat or not wearing black pants). But, to his credit, the author goes beyond that and presents background on all the players: the border patrol, the local residents who are plagued by problems resulting from people walking across the border, and the others involved in this dangerous and expensive activity. In sometimes poetic phrases we learn about the desert, the heat, stages of death by heat and thirst. The result is a realization of the true tragic quality of the illegal immigration problem. Everyone involved in this story labored under misconceptions or gross ignorance that led to a terrible outcome. Worse, there seems no clear path toward stopping or even tamping down the problem. All you can say after reading the book is you have a much better grasp of the issues facing the parties near the border. That may not be enough, but it is something worthwhile.
I am typically a person who dreads reading non-fiction, but Urrea has a masterful command over language that makes this book a thrilling ride--one that never felt like a chore, even in its darkest moments. Its topic is very dark, but the book does well in remembering that this is reality. Even its morbidity reflects the fact that the Yuma 14/Wellton 26 were real people with real desires and hopes.Read this book. Every 14.8 seconds, somebody dies crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and this fascination with sealing our border has created spaces of death and loss. This book gives an earnest picture of one such space, one such time.
I've heard of Devil's Highway all my life ... driven through it without realizing. Even picked up a friend there once ... didn't realize... It's a story from the view of the Border Patrolmen about the illegal's. Also a mystery story as they track the origins of a great many dead 'walkers'. I'm not finished with the reading of it, but it's definitely a must read to understand the huge problem(s) involved.
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