More than a story of the difficulties faced by an estimated 1.8 million children of immigrants who entered the U.S. before their 16th birthday, “¡Americano!” is a story about overcoming obstacles and continuously moving forward.
Tony Valdovinos was only a 6th grader when he made the decision to join the U.S. Marines after watching the horrors of 9/11. But the day of his 18th birthday, when he walked into a recruitment office to enlist, he discovered something his parents never told him: He was an undocumented immigrant a so-called…