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Reddit mentions of The Devil's Highway: A True Story

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Found 6 comments on The Devil's Highway: A True Story:

u/nooneelse · 11 pointsr/todayilearned

Read The Devil's Highway, this is not a troll.

u/Tober04 · 8 pointsr/pics

If anyone is interested in a great book about the struggles of immigrants crossing the border, go read The Devil's Highway.

u/_DeadPoolJr_ · 8 pointsr/moderatepolitics

Mexico doesn't do anything about illegal immigration because it's embarrassing for them. There was one incident a while back where a group of border crossers were found dead in the desert from dehydration. It got some news coverage and Mexico had declared them national heroes and had the bodies flown back for burial. The other is because they gain finically from all the foreign remittance that gets sent back. This isn't just for Mexico but other countries that have a high count of illegal immigration in the US.

For an example of just how lucrative it can be, PEW says that for 2017 that Mexico received over $30 billion dollars sent in remittances. Other countries like El Salvador rely on it and actually makes up a large amount of their GDP. Just over 17% in their case.

Because of how easy the money is for these countries they have no real pressure or reason to act. What needs to be figured out is how to make it where the amount of money coming in isn't worth the cost.



https://www.pewresearch.org/global/interactives/remittance-flows-by-country/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/29/remittances-from-abroad-are-major-economic-assets-for-some-developing-countries/

The story about the migrants being called heroes is from this book. https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Highway-True-Story/dp/0316010804

u/dr3 · 5 pointsr/texas

> the devils highway

This?

Looks interesting

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/politics

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 The Devil's Highway, Ferguson, Price, and Parks's Crossing with the Virgin, Annerino's Dead in Their Tracks

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.