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DEL RIO, Texas — By this weekend, the sprawling squalid migrant camp near the international bridge here was silent. At least 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants had come and gone. When it comes to the fight for sympathy from the hearts of Americans, Haitians may have the edge. But the get-tough policies played out in this small border town between a …

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