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Mayte Lara Ibarra and Larissa Martinez had just finished their senior year of high school when they each decided to go public with their immigration status. Both Texas students came to the U.S. illegally, and they didn’t want to keep that fact a secret any longer.
Ibarra identified herself on Twitter as one of the 65,000 undocumented youth who graduate high school in the U.S. Martinez revealed her status in the commencement speech she delivered at graduation.
Next month, Ibarra heads to the University of Texas-Austin and Larissa to Yale University. That’s no small feat, considering only about half of the 65,000 undocumented high school graduates go on to higher education. Even fewer end up earning a degree.
Read their interview with NPR here: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/08/08/487479658/what-its-like-to-be-undocumented-and-college-bound
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