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California Parents Walk to Border in Support of Migrant Children

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Just as the nation's attention is focused on a surge of young migrants coming north across the U.S.-Mexico border, a group of California parents -- most of them college students -- is heading south toward the border through the Central Valley. They're walking more than 300 miles to urge the federal government to treat migrant children with more compassion.

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