Six Deadly SinsWhat circumstances would you face to improve and provide for your family? Would you embark on these six deadly sins just to have a simple loaf of bread on the table? There is no solid blame or definitive black and white answer in this entire novel, The Devil's Highway. Author Luis Alberto Urrea brings his readers from different perspectives and offers different points of view, whether you look like a walker, a coyote or a border controller on the topic of illegal immigration. Because Urrea puts the reader in each person's shoes and truly sees what immense, harsh conditions these immigrants had to go through. Again there is no solid blame or black and white answers, both parties are at fault and need a solution to the problem. To be called a walker you have to come from a place where you work all day but don't make enough money runs out of meat. Urrea explains the small towns and villages where all the poor Mexican citizens yearn for bigger dreams and a better lifestyle. It talks about the individual subjects and the circumstances that lead walkers to decide to cross the border and risk death. Urrea tells the stories of the fourteen victims and provides brief sketches of each individual's life in Mexico. The men were mostly workers on coffee plantations or farmers. They were all leaving behind their families of new spouses, a wife and several children, or a girlfriend they hoped to marry someday. They all had mostly the same goals about going to the United States, such as raising enough money to buy furniture or build a house or, in one case, put a new roof on a mother's house. All these men really wanted a better life and saw the possibility in the United States, since these men are so gifted... middle of paper... 2002. Mexican immigrants use approximately $250 million in social services such as Medicaid and food stamps and another $31 million in uncompensated health care, leaving a profit of $319 million” (218). But should we still allow people to put their lives at risk? It's not the desert that kills immigrants. It's not coyotes. It's not even the Border Patrol. What kills people “is the politics of stupidity that governs both sides of the border” (214-215). This quote shows the power that both sides of the border have and it is evident that both sides are truly responsible for this issue. Both sides of the border should come together and find a solution to this serious immigration problem. Work cited Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Devil's Highway: A True Story. New York: Little, Brown, 2004. Print.