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The city of Tapachula in southern Mexico has long been a transit point for migrants. This year, it became perhaps the largest community of newly arrived Haitian migrants in the world as local immigration officials detain them while they wait out their applications for refugee status in Mexico. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports.