Alberto Carvalho

I want to confess to you, for those of you who may not know,

I would be a hypocrite if I did not fight for those who today are facing conditions that over 40 years I faced as an undocumented migrant to this country.

I want to repeat that.

I would be the biggest hypocrite in the world, regardless of my position today,

if today I did not fight for those who find themselves in the same predicament I faced over 40 years ago when I arrived in this country at the age of 17 as an undocumented immigrant.

Education made me and saved me.

I became a teacher, a principal, a superintendent leading the nation's largest districts, four times selected as national superintendent of the year.

Do not underestimate the power of the immigrant child who may very well become an adult who does well and good by America.

If I come across with a certain degree of contempt and anger, I am.

I am.

And?