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A Texas lawyer is among those trying to broaden the definition of asylum, dismaying conservative critics and some Mexican officials.EL PASO — One of his clients, a Mexican waitress and widowed mother of three, says she played dead under a pile of bodies to survive a massacre in Ciudad Juarez led by men she recognized as federal police.

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