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The groups, numbering several hundred on each side, were separated by lines of police officers and metal railings.

Mexican citizens are the largest immigrant group in the United States, numbering more than 11 million, according to various estimates.

Piles of abandoned shoes, backpacks and clothing became vivid symbols of Mexico’s crisis of the disappeared, now officially numbering more than 120,000 vanished individuals, most presumed victims of organized crime.

The discovery of the camp has revived the national debate in Mexico about how to find justice for the country’s multitudes of “disappeared” — now numbering more than 120,000, mostly victims of organized crime.

It was last invoked in World War Two, when people of Japanese descent - reportedly numbering about 120,000 - were imprisoned without trial.