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The number of immigrants at the Prairieland Detention Center southwest of Dallas who are ill with COVID-19 has risen to three dozen in a rapid spread of the contagion that immigrant families say is linked to transfers from Pennsylvania. Luis Buitrago, a 50-year-old truck driver from Philadelphia and a native of Colombia, is one of them. Buitrago said he was …

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