NM demonstrators show solidarity along border

The Associated Press

Posted: 01/30/2011 08:46:58 PM PST

Updated: 01/30/2011 09:15:04 PM PST

SUNLAND PARK, N.M.—Crowds gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border this weekend to call for an end to the drug-related violence that has claimed thousands of lives in the past few years.

More than 300 people gathered Saturday along the U.S. side of a border fence separating Sunland Park from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to show solidarity with the Mexican city that has been ravaged by drug-related violence. At the same time, about 150 people gathered on the Mexican side.

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