For decades, immigrants have called Haltom City home

This Texas city has many Vietnamese immigrants and they are welcoming Hispanics also. - - Donna Poisl

BY DARREN BARBEE

Years ago, An Truong and his two sons built their own two-story house from the ground up.

Along the way he helped build three Buddhist temples as well.

Now, the city he calls home, Haltom City, is all but built out. It's a melting pot, too, with the highest percentage of foreign-born residents in Tarrant County, at about 22.1 percent.

Truong, born in Vietnam, chose to live in the area chiefly because the cold of Pennsylvania did not appeal to his family. He joined other Vietnamese in Haltom City, which was a resettlement center for refugees after the Vietnam War. About 25 percent of the city's foreign-born population is Asian, and 70 percent Latin American.
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