Texans in Congress stay silent on Cuellar indictment, unlike with Santos and Menendez before him ( www.texastribune.org )
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Forty men were killed and more than two dozen were injured in one of the deadliest incidents involving immigrants in Mexico’s history. Investigators put the blame for the incident on the migrants who set the blaze and the guards who failed to help them. The United States urged immigrants to take heed of the tragedy and pursue...
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