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Organizers of central Mexico’s annual competition for the most tricked-out “troca,” or truck, say more migrants are returning to their homeland, and many are planning to stay for a while.
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A federal judge has refused to close a migrant encampment on tribal land in Southern California that prosecutors call dangerous.
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