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Tracing the Roots of the Child Migrant Crisis

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Six California legislators are in Central America this week, visiting El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama. The trip was planned months ago, but it's taken on new urgency in the wake of a surge of unaccompanied children migrating to the United States. We hear first from the California Report's Tyche Hendricks, then from the California Report's Scott Shafer, who sat down recently with David Shirk, director of the "Justice in Mexico Project" at the University of San Diego.

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