Topic - Ciudad Juarez

; Juarez City) is the largest city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez is the seat of the municipality of Juárez with an estimated population of 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), south of El Paso, Texas. Together with the surrounding areas the cities form El Paso–Juárez, the second largest bi-national metropolitan area on the Mexico–United States border (after San Diego–Tijuana), with a combined population of over 2.7 million people. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - Benito the giraffe looks out from his enclosure at the city run Central Park, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 13, 2023. A campaign to save the 3-year-old male from extreme hot and cold temperatures and a small enclosure has paid off with officials from Chihuahua state promising in a Jan. 8, 2024 statement to move him to the more spacious Africam Safari park in the state of Puebla. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

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A young migrant holding swimming inner tubes stands on the Mexican-side of the Rio Grande river, from where migrants swim across to the U.S. side, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire May 11. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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A woman tapes a bouquet of flowers to the picket of a gate that has been converted into a makeshift memorial, in front of a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, where a fire in a dormitory left dozens of migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

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Migrants prepare to spend the night on a sidewalk or inside an idle city bus in their attempt to stay warm while camping outside the Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso, Texas, late Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Around 300 migrants have taken refuge on sidewalks, some of them afraid to seek more formal shelters, amid new restrictions meant to crack down on illegal border crossings. President Joe Biden will visit El Paso on Sunday on his first, politically thorny visit to the southern border. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

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Gustavo Banda, center right, pastor of Templo Embajadores de Jesus, Tijuana's largest migrant shelter, speaks with migrants at a shelter, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Biden administration's policy shift on Venezuelan migrants may pose an enormous challenge to overstretched Mexican shelters. The U.S. has coupled plans to let up to 24,000 Venezuelans apply online to fly to the U.S. for temporary stays with a pledge to immediately turn back Venezuelans who cross the border illegally from Mexico. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

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A mariachi musician holds onto a dove to be released at a burial service in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, for elementary school principal Elsa Mendoza, who was killed in the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso. Mexican officials said eight of the victims in El Paso were Mexican nationals, and have called the shooting an act of terrorism against their citizens on U.S. soil. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

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Mourners console each other after a mass in the chapel on the campus of Saint Francis University to celebrate the life of Nicholas Cumer on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in Loretto, Pa. Cumer was a graduate student in the master of cancer care program at the University and was among those killed in the Dayton shooting early Sunday. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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