Leilani was carrying a bag full of clean clothes and handmade Mexican clay pottery her grandmother had insisted she take with her before leaving Mexico City. The heat was unbearable but she was wearing a thin sweater to protect her delicate skin from the sun. She tried desperately to cover her face from the sun, but the weight of the bag was straining her arm joints, forcing her to switch the bag from hand to hand every 60 seconds. Her husband towered over her and she tried to walk in his shadow, but with little success due to the angle of the blinding rays. "It's too hot to be out here. I want to go home," Leilani said. "We have to keep going, we're almost there," responded her husband Brent. The two had been walking down the Mexican freeway for nearly 20 minutes.
