Reflecting on Devil's

It was interesting re-reading The Devil's Highway with this border concept and after having taken an anthropology class. What really struck me the most was this occurrence of dehumanization, and what suffering the cycle promotes. Border patrol doesn't see emigrating Mexicans as human; they give them other nouns (wet, Juan Doe) with which they refer to them, they would rather bring them back dead than alive, they don't see them as faces, stories, families, lovers - they see them as strictly bodies. Pests. Bugs that must be squashed. Paper work. Sand-ridden, crackled annoyances. Not human, more animal. And they speak of them in this way as well. It's pretty sickening.
I feel that this treatment promotes severe suffering of both parties. The Mexicans suffer to their death (murder, rape, lack of resources) and the men of the border suffer in their inability to move through compassion, or even sympathy. This is what stood out to me the most when revisiting the Common Book. Every other element of the three chapters had a lesser effect on me which is sad, but at the same time also telling of how much I've learned in the past nine months.