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Migrants say El Paso shooting won't deter them from seeking new lives in the US

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - The massacre at an El Paso Walmart store on Saturday hasn't diminished Silvia Ivania's desire to move to the United States - even if the killer of 22 people was apparently motivated by hatred of Latino immigrants.

"That's something that can happen anywhere," said Ivania, 37, a citizen of Honduras, speaking at the Good Samaritan migrant shelter in this border city across the Rio Grande

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