has not always welcomed the Mexican immigrants who came to work in its carpet mills. But the community is united behind its powerhouse high school soccer teams. The Dalton High School boys ...

Each day, half a dozen white vans full of young immigrant boys pull into the parking lot of an old Walmart along the Mexican border ... There are volleyball nets, a soccer field and basketball ...

All locals, and mostly immigrants, pass a multi-colored soccer ball back ... jeans-wearing Mexican grandfather to a Caucasian American girl in the midfield to a 10-year-old boy from West Africa ...

Zamarripa, who played in the UNAM Pumas basic forces before moving to the Big Apple, did not reach the first division of Mexican pro soccer ... also securing his immigration status in the United ...