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EL PASO — U.S. Border Patrol agents are releasing a rising number of migrants onto the streets here to ease overcrowding at a processing center. Since Sept. 1, the daily average of encounters with migrants has swelled from 900 to more than 1,100 per day, U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Carlos Rivera said. These numbers are in line with pre-pandemic volumes, …

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