| Fleeing Cartel Violence, Mexican Expats Live in Limbo in Texas Border Town Alex Pena - CBS News | |
| go to original August 15, 2015 |
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The dusty streets of Fabens, Texas remind many of its politically exiled residents, of home, just across the border in Mexico.
But it was just across that border, in the Juarez Valley of Guadalupe, that José Holguín lost his oldest son to the violence of El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel.
"We were struck with great difficulty when our son was murdered. That's when we started to think, how are we going to survive? We can't be here in Juarez," said Holguín.
In the years following 2008, this town of 20,000 people was nearly abandoned. It was reduced to 1,000, when foot soldiers from the Sinaloa Cartel moved into town searching for new territory on the U.S. border.
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