A circus worker feeds Benny the elephant, in his pen where the Hermanos Vazquez brothers have set up their ring in a Mexico City park, February 1, 2001. Benny has gained fame as the largest illegal alien ever after being smuggled accross the border from the U.S. at Matamoros after Vazquez lost patience with the delays in the bureaucracy to import him legally. Vazquez, who says "If there's no elephant, there's no circus", now fears that Benny will be confiscated and the circus will loose it's star attraction to a zoo.

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