Over the years crossing the border has become increasingly dangerous. Everyone who crosses the border knows of the dangers it inhabits, but that does't matter because they all have to same goal and that's to live a better life. Over the years there has been so much border crossing that the border patrol has asked for the militaries help. On top of military patrol the desert comes with some harsh conditions such as: the heat, the wildlife, the harsh currents and surprisingly the desert freezes. Its the conditions that kill people most of the time not the military or the patrol (dehydration, heat strokes, hypothermia, malnourishment). People who plan on crossing the border do not go into to this very prepared, they don't really know what's ahead of them, unless they have crossed it before. Once you're out there in the desert there's no help, you are on your own.
This article relates to The Distance Between Us because as Reyna and her family we trekking across the desert they came across many obstacles which included: being caught by the border patrol, malnourishment and dehydration. Even though Reyna did not describe or really mention the dangers of crossing the border you just knew by the way her father described crossing. Although in the book she found a man lying in the ground, dead, from the harsh conditions.
Article: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/26/19120052-sun-frost-thirst-and-bullets-a-deadly-border-could-become-even-more-dangerous-under-senate-plan
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