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Ted Cruz has slammed Joe Bidens chaotic management of the migrant border crisis, saying thousands of desperate Haitians rushed to Texas after the president canceled deportation flights.

Up to 15,000 migrants have been living in squalid conditions in an impromptu camp that sprang up under a bridge spanning the Rio Grande from the Texas town Del Rio to Mexicos Ciudad Acuna.

The Department of Homeland Security say they have removed 4,600 people in recent days from the site but have not revealed how many have been released into the US.

The White House has also refused to answer when, if ever, Biden has visited the border, even in his previous roles as vice president and senator.

Following the recent crackdown in response to the huge influx, hundreds of migrants have instead headed to Mexicos refugee agencies and shelters amid the chaotic scenes.

Speaking to Fox News Laura Ingraham, Cruz, a Republican Texas senator, said: Whats happening in Del Rio really illustrates the cause-and-effect of the Biden border disaster. To really understand it, you have to go back to September 8.

Up to 15,000 migrants have been living in squalid conditions in an impromptu camp that sprang up under a bridge spanning the Rio Grande

Migrants seeking refuge in the US wade through the Rio Grande river from Ciudad Acuna in Mexico

This overhead photo shows some of the hundreds of Texas state SUVs used to form a de-facto steel barrier along the United States-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas

Ted Cruz has slammed Joe Bidens management of the migrant border crisis, saying thousands of Haitians rushed to Texas after the president canceled deportation flights

On September 8, under that bridge, there were, on any given day, between 700 and 1,000 illegal immigrants, mostly from Haiti.

On September 8 there were roughly 900 Haitians that were scheduled to be on airplanes to go back to Haiti and the Biden administration canceled those flights.

They said, Were not gonna deport you. You can stay here. You can remain in America.

And what happened was simple. Those 900 Haitians, they pulled out their phones. And they got their phone and they called their families, they called their friends. They texted their family and friends.

Migrants have been usingFacebook, YouTube and WhatsApp to share detailed instructions with friends and family back home on how to cross the border into the US, it was recently revealed.

Migrants, many of them from Haiti, are pictured wading back and forth between Texas and Mexico on Wednesday. At the weekend an estimated 14,000 migrants were sheltering in Del Rio

The White House has refused to answer when, if ever, Biden has visited the border, even in his previous roles as vice president and senator

A photo from September 22 shows migrants being routed out of a makeshift border camp after being processed by US officials. The White House has pledged to deport most of the migrants back to Haiti under Title 42, but reports indicate thats not the case for some being released

There has been a stream of migrants flooding into the US since the start of Joe Bidens presidency.

But recent weeks have seen a huge uptick of people trying to enter Texas via the Rio Grande, mostly from Haiti.

The island nation has been dogged by crime, poverty and natural disasters, with a recent earthquake displacing thousands, fuelling a further rush to the US.

The Biden administration put a hold on deportation flights in response to the earthquake, allowing thousands to gather in camps in Del Rio.

The suspension has since been reversed, with flights recommencing Sunday.

Under Title 42, migrants can be repatriated to their home nations without the possibility of requesting asylum due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cruz continued: You had 700 people on September 8. I was down in Del Rio eight days later on September 16. The day I was there, 700 people had become 10,503. It took eight days for that to happen.

Within a couple of days that 10,000 had become 15,000 and it was straight cause-and-effect. The word went out that the Biden administration is not going to enforce the law.

And if youre from Haiti, come to Del Rio because that means you get to stay, and thats whats produced this disaster.

Biden initially suspended repatriation flights to Haiti after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people and damaged more than 100,000 homes.

But he has since stepped up the deportation blitzin order to curb the number of undocumented migrants flooding into Del Rio as thousands continued to arrive.

The official line is that Haitians are being expelled from the US back to the crisis-stricken Caribbean nation under a Donald Trump-era rule.

Under Title 42, migrants can be repatriated to their home nations without the possibility of requesting asylum due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some 523 Haitians have since been deported to their homeland on four flights, with repatriations set to continue on a regular basis, the Department of Homeland Security said.

But thousands of migrants have also been freed into the US on a very, very large scale rather than being flown out as the Biden administration promised, according to officials. Its estimated as many as 5,000 migrants have been allowed in.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been forced to use unprecedented methods to prevent more from entering his state by creating a steel barrier of hundreds of vehicles at the border.

Migrants exit a Border Patrol bus and prepare to be received by the Val Verde Humanitarian Coalition after crossing the Rio Grande on Wednesday

A young child clings to their father as he wades across the river into the United States

They are lined up outside Del Rio in Texas, which has seen an influx of 14,600 migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the US. An estimated 8,600 remained in the town of 35,000 people as of Tuesday night, with 1,083 so far deported back to Haiti

Abbott visited the site on Tuesday and praised DPS and Texas National Guard for creating the barrier by using hundreds of state-owned vehicles, almost all of which appear to be bulky SUVs.

Unlike Abbott, Biden is yet to witness the scenes of chaos firsthand, where migrants are living in squalid conditions and forced to sleep on the ground under makeshift tents from discarded clothing and tree branches in searing heat.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was pressed on whether Biden had visited the southern border at all in his life but she said she could not provide a date.

The president has frequently visited areas affected by natural disasters but is yet to make a trip to the current crisis emerging in Texas.

The makeshift border camp at one point swelled to more than 14,000 migrants, with this photo emphasizing just how large the encampment has become

Del Rio in Texas, which has seen an influx of 14,600 migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the US. An estimated 8,600 remained in the town of 35,000 people as of Tuesday night, with 1,083 so far deported back to Haiti. Thousands more have been released into the US

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said: Has Joe Biden ever been to the border? Its a question that needs to be answered by the president, who is presiding over the most disastrous border crisis in decades.

The RNC Research team investigated and has been unable to find a single example of Biden visiting the border in at least a decade, even when he was Obamas border czar. Biden created a humanitarian crisis at the border and refuses to take responsibility for it.

The buck stops with him, and it is long past time for Biden to make the trip, see the devastating impacts of his open border policies for himself, and address the crises his failed policies created.

Filippo Grandi, the head of the UN refugee agency, has warned that US expulsions to such a volatile situation might violate international law.

The chaotic scenes at the border and news of the expulsion flights convinced some Haitian migrants transiting through Mexico that it would be better to petition for legal status there, rather than risk crossing the U.S. border.

My thinking is to find a better life, wherever I find it I never said it had to be in the United States, said Wilner Plaisir, a Haitian asylum seeker waiting outside the offices of the Mexican refugee agency COMAR in Mexico City on Wednesday.

John Rourke on Wednesday night told of the distressing scenes he saw in Del Rio, Texas

May 22 2021: Department of Homeland Security announces Haitians in US will be granted Temporary Protection Status (TPS), meaning they cant be deported and can apply for documentation that allows them to work

July 7: Haitian President Jovenel Moise is assassinated at his presidential palace in Port-au-Prince

August 14: Haiti is hit by magnitude 7.2 earthquake, killing at least 2,000

September 17: An estimated 12,000 migrants suddenly arrive in Del Rio, Texas, after crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico. Many had been granted refugee status in Brazil and Chile after an earlier quake in 2010

September 18: Biden administration announces it will swiftly deport Haitians who cross into the US from Mexico

September 19: The number of migrants in Del Rio swells to an estimated 14,600. Deportation flights to Haiti begin, with 327 people flown out of the US

September 20: Border Patrol officials continue bussing Haitians away from Del Rio, with a further 233 deported. Photos of migrants being confronted by agents on horseback cracking their reigns emerge

September 21: Another 523 people are deported via plane, with the number of Haitians remaining in Del Rio estimated at 8,600. Texas Governor Greg Abbott arranges for hundreds of state vehicles to form a makeshift border wall in Del Rio

September 22: Unnamed sources tell AP thousands of Haitians apprehended in Del Rio have been released into the US rather than deported. Seven flights have been scheduled to continue the deportation effort.

If I can find work, Ill stay here with my family, said the construction worker.

Statistics published by COMAR show that 18,883 Haitians applied for asylum in Mexico in the first eight months of this year, the second-highest nationality after Hondurans.

Border Patrol agents were so concerned about the escalating situation at the border that they requested additional resources three months ago but their concerns were not acted on by superiors.

Jon Anfinsen, National Border Patrol Council local president told CNN that the union on June 1 suggested improvements to the system.

Anfinsen said that they wantedagents to be sent to the border with tablets to start the intake process when a large group crosses the river, instead of having the group wait there while space is cleared in the station.

This way, we can at least get part of the process finished before they even get to the station instead of wasting that time, said the email.

The union followed up on June 3, and also suggested placing a trailer in the area for additional staff, to deal with a predicted surge.

On June 17, the union received a one-sentence response: This is being explored, several other platforms are being considered which are more efficient.

Meanwhile anArmy veteran who organizes annual clean-ups of American cities has told of his shock at the squalid conditions along the border.

John Rourke, founder of the Great American Clean-Up, said that he and his team were taken aback at the scenes.

Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security Secretary, was in the city on Monday but Rourke told Fox News Tucker Carlson that more needed to be done.

Let me tell you what I saw, Rourke said.

I saw people washing babies in the Rio Grande.

I saw ladies breastfeeding babies, sleeping in dirt, 107 degrees outside, red ants everywhere, real coyotes the ones that have four legs walking around.

Its like Naked And Afraid: the southern border edition, out there.

People are literally knocking down trees and setting up lean-tos and teepees and sleeping under those.

He said he and his colleagues picked up thousands of pounds of garbage along the southern border.

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Tucker Carlson pushed the white supremacist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory on his show Wednesday.

Carlson baselessly accused Biden of "eugenics" as he railed against the president on immigration.

He falsely suggested the president once said that "non-white DNA" is the source of America's strength.

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson unabashedly pushed the white supremacist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory on his show Wednesday night as he baselessly accused President Joe Biden of "eugenics" and allowing migrants to flood into the US in order to "change the racial mix of the country."

Carlson's Wednesday night attacks on Biden came as the president faces rampant criticism over an escalating crisis at the border involving Haitian migrants. "American citizens owe no debt to Haiti," Carlson said, while lambasting the Biden administration over the fact the White House called images of Border Patrol whipping at Haitian migrants "horrific."

Contrary to Carlson's claims, however, the Biden administration is currently moving to deport thousands of Haitians - and facing major pushback from Democrats and activists over the treatment of the migrants as a result.

"You've got to ask yourself, as you watch the historic tragedy that is Joe Biden's immigration policy, what's the point of this? Nothing about it is an accident, obviously. It is intentional. Biden did it on purpose. But why? Why would a president do this to his own country? No sane, first-world nation opens its borders to the world," Carlson said.

He went on to say, "There's only one plausible answer ... To reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here, and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly arrived from the third world ... In political terms, this policy is sometimes called the great replacement - the replacement of legacy Americans, with more obedient people from faraway countries."

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The Fox News host explicitly invoked the white supremacist "replacement" conspiracy theory, rhetoric often linked to hate groups that he has used before.

White nationalist and far-right groups have consistently pushed the racist conspiracy theory that people of color are vying to replace white people.

Talk of "white genocide" is common among white supremacist groups. During the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, the white nationalists in attendance chanted: "Jews will not replace us."

Carlson, who is the most-watched host on cable news, has repeatedly echoed these bigoted talking points on his show. Critics say he's mainstreaming white supremacy.

On Tuesday, he warned of a migrant "invasion" at the US-Mexico border.

Carlson in April contended that Democratic lawmakers are "importing a brand new electorate" of "Third World" immigrants to "dilute" American voters. Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch defended Carlson at the time amid calls from the Anti-Defamation League for him to be fired. "A full review of the guest interview indicates that Mr. Carlson decried and rejected replacement theory," Murdoch said. "As Mr. Carlson himself stated during the guest interview: 'White replacement theory? No, no, this is a voting rights question.'"

But Carlson in his segment on Wednesday made explicit references to "non-white DNA," while effectively accusing Biden of pushing a policy of eugenics against whites.

Carlson was taking remarks made by Biden as vice president during a 2015 summit on terrorism out of context.

At the time, Biden lauded the "unrelenting stream of immigration" to the US that began in the 1700s, and said it's not a "bad thing" that it's projected white people in the US will eventually be a minority. Biden was touting diversity, and the immigrant tradition in the US, as a source of American strength.

Carlson misconstrued Biden's words, and falsely said, "[Biden] said that non-White DNA is the, quote, source of our strength. Imagine saying that this is the language of eugenics. It's horrifying." Biden never said this.

In response to a request for comment from Insider, a Fox News spokesperson pointed to previous comments from Carlson. He's said "it's wrong to mistreat people based on their skin color," and has denied being a white supremacist. The spokesperson did not address Carlson's comments on multiple occasions promoting the racist conspiracy theory that white Americans are being replaced by other races.

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In the first few minutes of the new documentary Missing in Brooks County, Eddie Canales idles his truck along a long stretch of trees, brush, and barbed wire. A few steps away a plastic barrel marked Agua sits under a tattered Red Cross flag where Canales retrieves a few empty water jugs and replaces them with full ones. Here in Brooks County, a rural Texas community located near the U.S.-Mexico border, summertime temperatures regularly exceed 100 degrees. A person could easily die of thirst out here, and as Canales drives his truck down the road he halts when he sees buzzards nearby. Whoa, he says, watching the birds as they circle. Theyre here.

A grizzled, aging man, Canales gingerly climbs over barbed wire and hacks through tall grass to discover what the buzzards have already found. A migrant is lying on the ground, dead. The man faces the sky, his arms outstretched, his chest swollen.

Hundreds die traversing this sweltering landscape every summer to evade the states largest border patrol checkpoint in nearby Falfurrias. There is no infrastructure to help them: Canales is the one-man engine behind the tiny South Texas Human Rights Center, providing humanitarian help where it can in Brooks County. Yet this unnamed soul is one of thousands of missing migrants whose families will never know what happened to them.

Missing in Brooks County, a documentary by Connecticut-based filmmakers Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss screening periodically across Texas and currently streaming on Laemmle Virtual Cinema, zooms in on this immense issue in one particularly dangerous area: Brooks County, population 7,100, where more than 2,000 migrants are presumed to have died since 2008. An estimated four in five of them will never be found. Texas leads all U.S. states in migrant deaths, having now surpassed Arizona for the dubious distinction. This film follows the helpers, who have been clouded by controversies in other parts of the Southwest: In 2019, humanitarian volunteers outside Tucson were charged with felonies for providing water and shelter to two young men walking through the Sonoran Desert. Here, volunteers have avoided legal harassment, but are instead entirely invisible.

The film takes shape as a portrait of the few human beings who carry countless spirits on their shoulders, who take the dead under their wing. Canales is one of them, and when family members come to his humble office to ask for help, he sifts through binders of crime scene photographs. It is traumatizing, thankless work, but he keeps on, often sleeping on a cot in the office.

If a migrant is walking through the brush in Brooks County, they have already made it across the border in McAllen. Coyotes bring people north and, upon reaching the Brooks County seat of Falfurrias 70 miles from the border, face the largest border patrol checkpoint in Texas. The only way to circumvent the checkpoint is to hike 40 miles around it. The filmmakers excoriate both federal and state officials for the humanitarian crisis that has resulted. It is clear to the filmmakers that federal policies of deterrence, dating back to 1994 under the Clinton Administration, are to blame for the forging of these dangerous paths and the subsequent surge in deaths. Yet they also indict Texas systems, or lack thereof, for failing to keep track of migrant deaths in any meaningful way.

Another of the movies main characters is anthropologist Kate Spradley, who leads a Texas State University project to exhume unmarked graves, conduct DNA testing, and reconnect the mourning families of missing migrants to their loved ones remains. We watch how Canales stays calm and keeps his head down in the work to cope, but Spradleys response is one of building anger. She calls him about yet another funeral home that told her that, inundated with bodies, they just started burying people everywhere with no records. These are people, these arent receipts you lose track of, she vents.

The filmmakers do an expert job of humanizing Spradley and Canales, but they could have spent more time with the migrants grieving families. They follow the families of Homero Romn Gmez and Juan Maceda Salazar, shedding light on their stories, but they dont get quite as much screen time or exploration. Even so, Missing in Brooks County lingers with a quiet care on human moments. Four years of footage has been distilled into a thrumming, tense hour and twenty minutes, a collection of scenes that illuminate fleeting traces of pain and memory. Often, these scenes are mundane: we see Romn Gmezs brother and sister sit in a plain hotel room, waiting on the phone, transferred again and again to county offices that will lead them nowhere; we watch research students gently and silently handle the bones of migrants dug from unmarked graves. We learn that grave diggers and the folks who mow the cemetery lawn are frequently the only people who remember where the unidentifieds were buried. In one striking shot, Spradley shows us a room filled with small, cardboard boxes, so many that the cameras frame cant capture them all. There is a person inside every one of these boxes. Everybody in here has a family that wonders what happened to them.

Viewers also see local residents and officials who appear to view migrants as less than human. A Border Patrol agent says he doesnt call the migrants people anymore; he calls them bodies. Ranchers, some of whom staunchly refuse Canales requests to set out water on their land, say shocking things on camera. Ive got my suspicions about Eddie Canales, says one. Were just waiting to try to catch him loading some [people] up and sneaking them around the checkpoint. He laughs at a Border Patrol photo in which three migrants hide in a tree from guard dogs. Another rancher, a veterinarian by day, eventually invites the filmmakers on a vigilante stakeout that he organizes with other elderly white men who are concerned about immigrants bringing sleeper cells and cartel soldiers to overtake us internally. He sits through the dead of night, wearing night vision goggles and full camo hunting gear, hoping to apprehend people he considers to be dangerous criminals.

Even in these bizarre, hostility-tinged moments, the films tone remains solemn. The ranches of Brooks County are haunted. By the movies conclusion, however, theres still hope to be found. Kind people of faith in Falfurrias often pull over to wish the searching families well. Crosses and angel statues stand among flowers in the cemeteries. God bless you is a common refrain, the charm of small town Texas. At one point, a friendly couple delivers food for graduate students conducting an exhumation. We call this working for the Lord, the woman says. No one sends us, we just go around town looking for things to do, see where God sends us, and he led us to the cemetery tonight. Despite these acts of care, the film still ends on a quiet, despairing note, in Canales office. In the last shot, the Red Cross flag waves under a big moon, ripped apart by the wind, hanging on.

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The wall that Turkey has built on the Iranian border cannot solve the refugee crisis on its own, the spokesperson of Turkey's Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission said Thursday, calling on European countries to play a more active role in Afghanistan to resolve the international crisis and "act more conscientiously."

Speaking to the Deutsche Welle (DW) Turkish, Van lawmaker Osman Nuri Glaar from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) evaluated issues like the transition of Afghan refugees to Turkey, the latest situation in the region, the adaptation of Syrian refugees to Turkey, and Europe's expectations.

Stating that Turkey, which hosts millions of migrants, is not in a position to bear any more burden, Glaar said the number of Afghans arriving in the eastern border province of Van fell to 100 on some days but rose to 300 and 400 on others. "This migration has been an incredibly heavy burden. It is an intensity that can cause burden and tragedy, and it does not have a sustainable side."

Turkey was abandoned in its efforts to prevent irregular migration, President Recep Tayyip Erdoan said on Thursday. "Turkey has been left alone in its extraordinary struggle to prevent irregular migration originating from Syria," the president said in a video message sent to a symposium on the Aegean Sea and Turkish-Greek relations.

Saying that the 2015 refugee crisis when 1.3 million people traveled to Europe to request asylum could have been instrumental in strengthening cooperation between Turkey and Greece, Erdoan said Athens wasted this opportunity with its "uncompromising stance."

Foreign Minister Mevlt avuolu also recently highlighted the importance of taking joint action to deal with the migrant crisis, as he urged the European Union to properly implement the terms of the 2016 deal and undertake burden-sharing responsibilities.

Turkey has been a key transit point for irregular migrants who want to cross into Europe to start new lives, especially those fleeing war and persecution such as the Syrian civil war. Through its March 2016 agreement with the EU, Turkey was key in bringing down migrant numbers and alleviating the crisis.

Concerns have risen over a possible spike in migrants from Afghanistan, due to the United States' pullout from the country and the following surge of Taliban attacks. Turkey has made it clear that it will not bear the burden of the migration crises experienced as a result of the decisions of third countries.

Turkey is continuing efforts to bolster the security of its border with Iran to prevent any new migrant wave in the face of the recent developments in Afghanistan. The beefed-up border measures in Turkey, which already hosts nearly 4 million Syrian refugees and is a staging post for many migrants trying to reach Europe, began as the Taliban started advancing in Afghanistan and took over Kabul last month.

Turkey is not the only country putting up barriers. Its neighbor Greece has just completed a 40-kilometer (25-mile) fence and surveillance system to keep out migrants who still manage to enter Turkey and try to reach the EU.

Authorities say there are 182,000 registered Afghan migrants in Turkey and up to an estimated 120,000 unregistered ones. Erdoan urged European countries to take responsibility for any new influx, warning that Turkey had no intention of becoming "Europe's migrant storage unit."

Turkey hosts nearly 4 million refugees more than any country in the world. After the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, Turkey adopted an open-door policy for people fleeing the conflict, granting them temporary protection status. Afghans are believed to be the second-largest refugee community in Turkey after Syrians. Many of the migrants arriving via Iran are heading for Istanbul to find work or passage to another coastal city from which to embark for Europe.

Calling on Europe to take reasonable and more logical steps to provide serious support to Turkey in this sense, Glaar added: "Germany is currently the leader of Europe. I would also like to emphasize that we wish Germany to develop friendly ties with Turkey. And if the refugee problem is to be resolved, then more consultation and communication is needed. We have witnessed how badly Greece treats refugees. At the point of throwing their boats back into the rivers after they pierced, or throwing them into the sea, they were faced with a treatment that no human conscience would accept. Efforts should be made for a fairer system and order in the world."

Turkey and human rights groups have repeatedly condemned Greece's illegal practice of pushing back asylum-seekers, saying the country violates humanitarian values and international law by endangering the lives of vulnerable migrants, including women and children. A recent report by Amnesty International titled "Greece: Violence, lies and pushbacks" documented "how the Greek authorities are conducting illegal pushbacks at land and sea." Pushbacks are considered contrary to international refugee protection agreements.

Explaining that it is not possible for Syrians to return to their countries in the short term, Glaar said: "Unless there is a just solution in Syria, it will not be possible for millions of Syrians to return to their homes, unfortunately, it will not be possible."

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Lithuania, Latvia and Poland are currently dealing with a migrant crisis triggered and fuelled by the regime in Belarus. They have no experience in managing such crises, and might find value in studying the approaches, solutions, and mistakes of EU peers such as Italy and Spain, countries that have often been on the frontline in dealing with illegal migration.

Spain and Italy have both had to deal with high numbers of arrivals in short periods of time, overloading their migrant reception systems. They have both suffered the economic, political, and social consequences of migration crises that continue to impact their societies. Migration has become a hot political issue, dividing populations, and distorting the discourse of political parties. Spain has also recently experienced the weaponisation of migrants in the city of Ceuta, where Moroccos political bargaining is reminiscent of the strategy adopted by Minsk.

There is no magic solution for irregular migration. In some cases, cooperating with origin and transit countries has been a fruitful mitigation strategy. But dealing with regimes such as Belarus, which turns migrants into geopolitical weapons, while at the same time ensuring respect for the human rights of the migrants themselves and the humanitarian obligations of target countries, continues to present a challenge.

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