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“Del Rio, Texas”: How a Race for Sheriff Became a Referendum on Immigration

Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez’s run for reelection provides a glimpse at how new patterns of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border have coincided with, if not driven, changing attitudes among voters who live there.

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