LatinaLista — Arlington, Texas is a southern suburb of Dallas and is home to the ninth-largest school district in Texas. Over 64,000 students are enrolled in the Arlington Independent School District (AISD) and the majority of the students are Latino.
So when Arlington School Board Trustee Tony Pompa talked about the President’s decision to defer deportation on undocumented youth during a recent school board meeting, no one thought anything about it. After all, as Mr. Pompa pointed out, AISD certainly has some students who would be classified as DREAMers.
Yet, it’s what he said next that stunned his colleagues. Mr. Pompa confessed that he once was a DREAMer too and he wanted to put a “face” to these DREAMer students. Then this successful businessman, job-creator, father, husband and community leader looked around at his colleagues and the audience in attendance and asked a simple question: Would your country be better if I wasn’t here today?
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Latina Lista
Watch the video of his confession at the school board meeting. It’s moving.
ZombieKaty
@gonzo1978 MARK! Will I see you in San Diego?
gonzo1978
@ZombieKaty yes what do are you arriving in San Diego?
ZombieKaty
@gonzo1978 I arrive on Wednesday morning. Travelling from LA – how long are you there for? Are you working at HQ again?
gonzo1978
@ZombieKaty no not working nhq if you would like, we can meet near there, I would love to chat on wednesday?
lightstarangel
@gonzo1978 @ZombieKaty There’s a mini-reunion going on let me know! I get to San Diego on Monday afternoon 🙂
ZombieKaty
@gonzo1978 that would be wonderful! I’ve missed you. I’m lucky and found a great job that I need to travel to the US with. I’m in St Louis!
gonzo1978
@ZombieKaty terrific Janet and I are staying on Coronado I want to try to have lunch or at least a up of coffee with Wendy dm ur sked
ZombieKaty
@gonzo1978 great! I am staying at the hotel across from HQ. As soon as I know what time I can get there I’ll let you know 😀
gonzo1978
@ZombieKaty I look forward to seeing you!!
gonzo1978
@lightstarangel sounds good maybe Wednesday before everything really starts rolling I know I want to see Katy would love to see u, Wendy
lightstarangel
@gonzo1978 Definitely! will try to figure something out 🙂