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More seeking asylum on U.S.-Mexico border
Jul 11 2008, AP

Dozens of Mexicans _ including police officers, businessmen, at least one prosecutor and a journalist _ are asking for political asylum in the U.S. in a desperate and probably hopeless bid to escape an unprecedented wave of drug-related killings and kidnappings south of the border.

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