For Some Students, Getting An Education Means Crossing The Border
There are hundreds of kids who are U.S. citizens but live in Mexico. Every day they walk across the border to go to school in California.
by Jonathan Levinson
Jun 17, 2017
3 minutes
The land border crossing between Tijuana, Mexico and San Ysidro, Calif. is one of the busiest in the world. Every day 25,000 people cross the border on foot. Among the crowd are students whose families live in Tijuana. Each morning their families commute many hours to bring the children to school in the U.S.
Juan and his mom, Maria, wake up at 5:30 a.m. each day to make the trek from their home in Tijuana to Juan's high school in San Ysidro. Some mornings, crossing the
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