Throughout The Devil’s Highway, bodies of men and women fell numerous times trying to cross into the United States. Once the United States increased patrol of the border, they controlled the geography. Immigrants had to find another way and sometimes it resulted in death. In certain cases, if patrol found men and women dead they would not report them because they would have to take responsibility for anything that comes after. The geography in displacing the immigrants was …show more content…
As illustrated in The Devil’s Highway (Urrea, pg. 118, 2013), a couple by the name of Lisa Scala and Martin Myer were camping at Buttercup. They went out for an adventure that day with their dune buggy, unfortunately, they did not take the recommended two gallons of water. In the same time, the dune buggy malfunctioned and before they knew it, they were stranded in the desert. Lisa and Martin’s body was found several days later and in different locations, because Martin left to get help but he could not make