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  • Luis Avila Archulata age 40, an ex gang member who grew up and spent his whole life in Arizona after crossing the U.S. border with his mother at the age of 2. Luis was a drug addict and was jailed multiple times in the U.S. and finally deported to Mexico where he now lives. He was recruited into gangs in the U.S. and was first exposed to drugs in the U.S. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu)
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  • A woman who was found beating herself in the downtown of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico seen in a privately run shelter for the mentally ill west of the city. Due to a lack of state social infrastructure many people with extreme mental illnesses are brought here..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).
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  • Marisol Espinoza, a 20-year-old woman from Chiapas, Mexico in a shelter for deportees and migrants the night after she was deported from the United States. She crossed the into the United States and walked through the Arizona desert for 6-days until she was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A man with hands bound behind his back and killed execution style on  the banks of a river in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico the cradle of many of the drug cartels and their leaders in Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • U.S. Border Patrol Agents stack bundles of marijuana seized from a vehicle at a checkpoint on the I-35 highway just north of the key port of entry from Mexico located in Laredo, Texas..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A man holding a U.S. passport coming from Mexico with his bike lines up at port of entry into the United States under the watchful eye of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent and a dog used to sniff out illegal narcotics in Laredo, Texas..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Officer questions Mexican men during a secondary search in the southbound lanes in Laredo, Teas before they head back to Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).June 2012
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  • U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Officers search vehicles at the Laredo port of entry coming into Texas from Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).June 2012
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  • A U.S. Border Patrol Agent on a dirt road in a heavily vegetated area near the banks of the Rio Grande river and Mexican border in an section of the border well known for smuggling and illegal crossing of the U.S. border..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A section of the old U.S. border fence meeting up with a newer taller section of the fence seen west of Tecate Mexico looking north towards the United States..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Mexicans look through the U.S.-Mexico border fence into the United States from a Mexican beach west of Tijuana, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Standing in the middle of the dry river bed of the Rio Grande and where the U.S. border fence with Mexico ends to the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Tire tracks of unknown vehicles in the desert east of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico near the U.S. border near the town of Porvenir in the Juarez Valley..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A section of the U.S. border fence looking toward Mexico from a dirt road near Jacumba, California..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A main road located in a poor suburb of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).December 2011
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  • Flying toward El Paso, Texas from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua over the border between Mexico and the United States..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).July 2012
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  • A section of the old U.S. border fence separating Imperial Beach, California seen from the western edge of Tijuana, Mexico with a newer taller second U.S. border fence in the background..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).July 2012
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  • The U.S. border fence seen cutting through mountains in the states of California in the U.S. and Baja California, Mexico seen looking north located east of Tijuana, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).July 2012
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  • Some of the many mayors of the town of Praxedis in the Juarez Valley located east of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. This town has been under one political party rule for decades and has been under the control of drug cartels who have killed many mayors in the region and throughout the country in order to maintain control of this lucrative smuggling region..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Anti Chapo Guzman graffiti that has been painted over on a wall in the Juarez Valley located east of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Chapo Guzman is one of the heads of the Sinaloa Cartel who has fought for control of this region with the Juarez Cartel..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Two men executed with assault rifles at a taco stand by assassins hired by drug cartels, during what is known as a "heating up of the plaza" in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • The bodies of men executed and dumped on the side of the highway in Navolato, Sinaloa which was the birthplace of one of the former leaders of the Juarez Cartel. Navolato is located next to the home turf of the Sinaloa Cartel who were locked in a battle for control of Ciudad Juarez for several years..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Multiple track marks from injecting heroin seen in the legs of a Mexican man in Ciudad Juarez who was deported to Mexico from the U.S. He was first exposed to illegal drugs in the U.S. became an addict and was eventually deported. Drug addiction in Mexico along the U.S. border is rising due to the amount of illegal drugs passing through border towns..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A former teacher who lost his mind on cocaine at a privately run shelter for the mentally ill located in the desert west of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A heavily armed man who was killed by the Mexican military during an operation trying to hunt down the head assassin of the Sinaloa Cartel known as "El Fantasma" in Quila which is believed to be territory controlled by El Mayo a Mexican drug lord associated with the Sinaloa Cartel just outside Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A man shot multiple times in drug related violence is pulled toward a stretcher by a medic in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A Mexican soldier stands guard by a bullet riddled vehicle in which two men were executed by drug cartel assassins in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A police officer stands by children just out of school all of whom are looking at the scene of a drug related shooting of a man in front of their school yard in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A U.S. Drug Enforcement Agent (DEA) aims a flashlight down a 55 foot deep drug smuggling tunnel that runs almost 240 yards under the U.S.-Mexico Border cut through a floor of a small industrial unit south of Yuma, Arizona in the town of San Luis. It is estimated that the tunnel built by a Mexican drug cartel cost up to 1-million dollars and took one year to build..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A U.S. Border Patrol facility in Laredo, Texas where agents monitor video surveillance of the U.S.-Mexico border..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).June 2012
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  • Heavily armed Civil Police patrol through Colonia Independencia in Monterrey, Mexico, during the Mexican General Election. Monterrey is a vital hub for the U.S.-Mexico border and one of the richest and most violent cities in Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).July 2012
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  • Migrant labourers from Guerrero State working at a farm near Culiacan, Sinaloa picking tomatoes destined for export across the border to the United States and Canada..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).March 2012
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  • A young man murdered with assault rifles in one of the poorer neighbourhoods in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)December 2011
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  • Members of a Mexican forensics team stands by a body bag which contains the body of a woman who was shot in the head on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico which is an area infamous for many gruesome murders of women..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).December 2011
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  • The bodies of two men shot in the head on the outskirts of Navolato, Sinaloa which is the cradle of many drug cartels. The high intensity battle to control drug smuggling routes by Mexican cartels has resulted in one of the most violent periods on the U.S.-Mexico border region with up to 60,000 people killed in the conflict. U.S. security forces have been overwhelmed by the waves of violence and the massive volume of drugs being brought into the United States. Mexican organized crime groups have grown into the most powerful criminal organizations in the world because of having the largest illicit drug market in the U.S. .(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).March 2012
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  • A woman covers her eyes from a murder scene where a family member was killed during drug related violence in Ciudad, Juarez, Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).December 2011
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  • The bodies of men executed and dumped on the side of the highway in Navolato, Sinaloa which was the birthplace of one of the former leaders of the Juarez Cartel. Navolato is located next to the home turf of the Sinaloa Cartel who were locked in a battle for control of Ciudad Juarez for several years..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).March 2012
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  • Surrounded by Mexican soldiers lies one of two men killed in a drug related assassination on a main street in broad daylight in Culiacan, Sinaloa which is the home turf of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).March 2012
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  • A large package of marijuana cut open after seizure in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico now held in the evidence room at the Federal Prosecutors headquarters in the city..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).July 2012
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  • Mexican heroin addicts prepare needles for injecting the drug along the Tijuana River in Mexico..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).July 2012
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  • Family members of a man killed near his home by cartel affiliated gangs sit by the crime scene as police collect evidence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.<br />
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  • Children who are orphaned by the drug war and have had trouble with drugs are seen in a shelter run by a local pastor who is an ex con in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Thousands of children in Mexico are orphans or victims in a myriad of ways of the drug war and the record level of violence. <br />
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  • A crime scene in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in which four people were killed in an ambulance by cartel assassins on a day where a total of 14 people were murdered during drug related violence.<br />
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  • A police officer looking over the bodies of two men who were executed and left hooded and bound on a city street in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico.<br />
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  • Mexican Federal Police officers stand on top of hand cuffed drug cartel assassins after arresting them in a gun battle in which the assassins had gone on a killing spree in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Mexican police are well known for corruption, human rights abuses and in many cases working in partnership with cartels. in 2008 only 38% of Mexican police had their high school diploma. The U.S. aid program to fight drug cartels known as the Merida Initiative supplies mostly weapons and equipment to Mexican security forces.<br />
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  • A woman in her twenties seen with her baby in a drug rehab clinic in Nogales, Mexico. When the baby was born she was taken away from her mother and was only recently reunited with the baby while still in rehab in the clinic for meth and marijuana abuse. <br />
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  • Girls dressed as angels praying at a crime scene where a young man was assassinated while a rival drug cartels assassins "heat up the plaza" in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. .(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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