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"Heavily armed members of criminal groups often patrol areas of the state and operate with impunity particularly along the border region from Reynosa to Nuevo Laredo," the US state department said.

“Heavily armed members of criminal groups often patrol areas of the state and operate with impunity particularly along the border region from Reynosa to Nuevo Laredo,” reads the State Department warning.

“I believe the Mexican government’s strategy is to prevent large numbers of people from being seen at the border, because that would reflect poorly on the Trump administration,” said Esther Gutiérrez, who runs Casa Nazareth shelter in Nuevo Laredo.

The hardest blow life dealt Lozano was at the age of 17, when she found her grandmother dead in her home in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico — something that put her in “a hole she felt she could never get out of.”

Lozano and her mother had not heard from her grandmother for days, so they decided to visit her in Nuevo Laredo.