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Watch: How the race for sheriff on the border became a referendum on immigration

Del Rio 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.

By Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica, and Perla Trevizo, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica

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