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AUSTIN — Texas will immediately begin building a barrier along the state’s border with Mexico while ramping up arrests of migrants, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday, though the Republican offered few details about the initiative. “Only Congress and the president can fix our broken border,” Abbott said during a summit in Del Rio focused on border security. “But in the …

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