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The Yuma 14 were a group of fourteen men that died in the Arizona desert in 2002 after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border and being abandoned by the human smuggler that was guiding them.

The group has also been refered to as the Wellton 26 to include the twelve men that survived the ordeal.

The incident was the largest recorded loss of life of illegal US-Mexico border crossers to date.

The case was the subject of the 2005 non-fiction book The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea.

Background
The group of border crossers initially consisted of 30 men: 27 migrants and 3 human smugglers. All of the men were Mexican nationals Each man paid $1,400.