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Education helps migrant children

So sad: the article “Schools across country keep migrant youths out” in The Bee on May 2:

The main thing that could help these young people become productive members of society, the thing that many of them came here for, is being denied them. What happened to “Give me your tired, your poor. …?” Our country is not living up to its promise; we can do better.

Barbara Ulman, Coarsegold

This story was originally published May 19, 2016 at 2:38 PM with the headline "Education helps migrant children."

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