(KRON) — Patrick McConnell has been training for three months to walk from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach to Santa Cruz barefoot. He says every step will help raise money for immigrant children detained at the border.
“Many of these kids are fleeing violence, trafficking, unimaginable hardships back at home then they are met with a system that treats them like adults,” says McConnell.
McConnell says he’s partnered with the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights — an organization that provides child advocates to help give these kids a voice in court and reunite them with their families…