Today, the company employs some 7,000 Mexican laborers, most of them in factories clustered around Ciudad juarez.

今天，公司雇佣了大约7000名墨西哥工人，其中大部分都在华雷斯城的诸多工厂之中工作。

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STEEL fence is all that separates El Paso, in west Texas, from Ciudad juarez, in northern Mexico, and it has never stopped business flowing across the border.

一张铁丝栅栏就隔开了德克萨斯州西端的埃尔帕索市和墨西哥北部边境的华雷斯城，然而它却从来没有阻断过边境两岸的商业流通。

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Mexicans from Ciudad Juarez hold a Mexican flag in El paso.

来自华雷斯市的墨西哥人在埃尔帕索市举着墨西哥国旗。

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But it sits just across the border from one of the most dangerous cities in the world - Juarez,Mexico.

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And lately, the targets have been political. A deputy state prosecutor was gunned down in Ciudad Juarez, along the border with Texas.

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On the streets of Juarez, the impact is dramatic. Traffic is minimal and many stores are shuttered.

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In the last fifty years, Juarez and El Paso have developed rapidly, if unevenly.

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Last year, more than 100 police were killed in Juarez in attacks blamed on organized crime.

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The ex-police chief of another nearby city met the same fate while visiting Juarez.

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