The border town of Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in Mexico, but because the violence largely has not crossed the border into Texas, it is El Paso immigration and real estate lawyers — not the criminal-defense bar — that are getting a boost to their practices.
Kathleen Walker, a partner in Brown McCarroll in El Paso who does immigration work, says she has been busy in recent months trying to help some Juarez residents obtain legal residency in the United States because they want to move their families and/or businesses to El Paso due to the violence in Mexico. “They are trying to live lawfully in the U.S.,” she says.
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