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Cultures are teammates at Iowa high school

By Wayne Drehs
ESPN.com

Monday, October 9, 2006

WEST LIBERTY, Iowa -- Leaning against the football stadium's fence, watching his son make a bone-jarring tackle, Ruben Galvan looks you in the eye and reveals the truth. "My family and I came here illegally," he says, "just like so many others." Had Galvan followed the rules, he wouldn't be here. Nor would his son, the football captain, or his daughter, the volleyball star. If the U.S. government had its way some 25 years ago, when he and his family used falsified identification cards to ...

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