Enrique Ibarra - DACA Dreamer talks immigration & Plant City

Enrique Ibarra was snuck across the border from Mexico to the U.S. as a baby. Raised in Plant City by his grandparents, the family were migrant workers that picked strawberries here and traveled as far as Michigan and Ohio to pick cucumbers and other produce. Enrique did not know he was in the U.S. illegally until he began applying for college his junior year at Durant High School. To learn the facts on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program click here. You can check out the books that have inspired Enrique at the Plant City Bruton Memorial Library:

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