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Dianne Solis

As border crossings rise, Texas faith groups support more migrants in need

DALLAS -- Isabel Márquez, a Dallas pastor, hurried into a church hall full of confused immigrants. They had been deposited just minutes earlier by a federal immigration bus.

“You are no longer detained. You are free,” the jeans-clad pastor said in Spanish.

Immigrants in T-shirts, sweatpants and plastic shoes erupted in applause in a swell of emotions. They had crossed borders, jungles and rivers to get here.

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