What is Reddit's opinion of The Devil's Highway: A True Story?

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The Devil's Highway

It's a well-written book about an important issue.

Most assuredly. They could have made sure there was a deadly desert with no roads. Like maybe the Devil's Highway.

What would you like for the feds to do? Link arms and stand along the border? I live in AZ; I see Border Patrol almost daily. Immigration is not something that can be remedied by throwing money at fences and soldiers. On the surface, the law seems fine: illegally occupying the country is a crime. But the implications of the law is where the problem lies. Let's ignore racial profiling for a moment, as that is subjective and easily debated. Currently, there are hundreds of legal Mexicans in the state who have work permits to be here. This temporary status also allows his/her spouse to be in the country for the duration indicated as a part of the permit; however, the spouse is not given their own documentation of this. They can therefore be arrested, jailed, and deported, despite the fact that they were legally allowed to be in the country. Who pays for their time spent in jail? You got it: the tax payers. And let us not forget the potential for 4th amendment violations. If a person simply looks illegal, the police have 'probable cause' to search, and possibly confiscate, their possessions.

TL;DR: This isn't a black and white issue.

EDIT: Suggested reading; Urrea's <em>The Devil's Highway</em>, Ferguson, Price, and Parks's <em>Crossing with the Virgin</em>, Annerino's <em>Dead in Their Tracks</em>

There are too many books to name them all, but the point is that immigration is, or at least should be, a social issue, not a criminal one.

Burning man is a multi million dollar industry that hires doctors, nurses, EMTs and Paramedics to ensure the health of their customers in order to not be held liable in case of death.

Anthropologist Jason De León's book the devil's highway is a more honest desciption of what those in the desert are going to be facing over the next 3 months.