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Officials: Many migrants from border camp staying in U.S.

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, MARIA VERZA and JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press
Published: September 22, 2021, 10:35am

DEL RIO, Texas — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.

Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large scale” in recent days, according to one U.S.

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