Unlike the federal government, Minas has no inhibitions about outsourcing: it plans to buy 500 new police cars and outsource their maintenance.

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And of that total 65% of them were Brazilians coming home after years spent in a U.S. they no longer recognize from the Brazilian immigration heydays that began out of Governador Valdares, a small city in Minas Gerais state that had as many people living in Massachusetts, New Jersey and California, than were living there in the 1990s.

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