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During Luis Alberto Urrea’s senior year of college, his father drove 27 hours to pick up a graduation gift — his life’s savings of $1,000 at his hometown bank. On the road back from Tijuana, Urrea’s father died at the hands of the Mexican police, he said during a presentation Thursday at the University of Central Florida. To ease the…