California family turns over heirlooms to Mexico

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They’re statues that had been in the family for several generations. They turned out to be from Mexico and thousands of years old. Lisa Aronson took them to the Mexican Consulate in Oxnard, California, and bid them an emotional goodbye. KCLU reporter Caroline Feraday chronicles why.

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