Maritza: Lead With Your Heart

Different Opinions

Sierra and Maritza are going to their current events class, when they catch up with Violeta and Ainsley, their fellow soccer team member and soccer captain. In class, Mr. Bernstein explains that they’ll be talking about the DREAMers—people who immigrated to the country illegally when they were children.

The whole class discusses whether DREAMers should really be allowed to stay in the U.S. Although they’re illegal, the U.S. may be the only country they know, and the person most likely contributed to U.S. society for years without even realizing they were illegal. By the end of the class, the students agree that in an ideal world, all the DREAMers could stay, but the laws need to be changed first to make it easier to grant them immunity and citizenship.

At practice that day, Ainsley announces that the Soccer Showcase is coming, and this is an opportunity for the players to be scouted for a club team. The whole team needs to hope they can pull together to do well.