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Marcos Serratos Highlight
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
About Marcos
- I immigrated to the U.S. with my parents when I was three years old and grew up in Stockton, California.
- I didn’t know anything was different about me until high school, when I realized that being undocumented was going to prevent me from achieving certain goals.
- After high school, I wanted to go to college, but couldn’t because I was undocumented—so I took dishwashing, construction, and grocery jobs to get by.
- I eventually received my DACA status and finally felt like I could breathe and go about life normally.
- I moved with my family to Idaho and decided to go back to school.
- I attended community college at the College of Western Idaho, where I studied diesel mechanics technology.
- While in college, I started building my career as a diesel technician.
- I now work at the College of Western Idaho as a heavy duty diesel instructor.
