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Migrant fathers celebrate their day at a family shelter in Mexico with gifts and prayers

Refugee Juan Carlos Manzo Manzo, right, grabs one of the gift bags each father received for Father's Day at refugee shelter Cobina Posada Del Migrante in Mexicali, Mexico, on June 24, 2023.

On a side street about five minutes from the U.S. border, a two-story building rises in an empty, dusty lot in Mexicali, Mexico, where families fleeing persecution and violence arrive, wait and hope to be accepted as refugees in America.

Families from Mexico and Central and South America walk into Cobina Posada Del Migrante with little more than the clothes on their back and a dream to live in America in prosperity and peace. The shelter, which accepts

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