diff --git a/internal/node.bzl b/internal/node.bzl
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-# Copyright 2017 The Bazel Authors. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-"""Private API surfaced for https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_typescript backward-compatability
-
-Users should not load files under "/internal"
-
-NOTE: This file is DEPRECATED and will be removed in a future release.
-"""
-
-load(
-    "//internal/common:expand_into_runfiles.bzl",
-    _expand_location_into_runfiles = "expand_location_into_runfiles",
-)
-
-expand_location_into_runfiles = _expand_location_into_runfiles