BRAWLEY, Calif.
Ramon Castro started Monday on a walk from Friendship Park on the San Ysidro border near San Diego with plans to keep going.
He’ll head east along the border for 1,954 miles and 45 days, until he reaches the end of the U.S. border with Mexico, near Brownville, Texas.
Castro, a Brawley City Council member, will join the twice monthly board meetings via Zoom while on the road.
“My family thinks I’m crazy,” Castro said. But he is letting his feet do the talking, as well as the walking.
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Castro, who served in the Marine Corps for eight years and was in Kuwait during the Iraq War, is walking the border to focus attention on noncitizen U.S. veterans who have been deported for committing crimes.
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