Roberts: Celebrating our immigrant Olympians

Immigrants add wonderful things to all parts of our country and culture and also to our Olympic teams.   - - Donna Poisl

By Cokie and Steven Roberts/Syndicated columnists
    
 Leo Manzano is the son of an undocumented farmworker from Mexico. Meb Keflezighi and his family fled civil war in Eritrea. Danell Leyva's stepfather defected from Cuba's gymnastics team during a meet in Mexico and swam across the Rio Grande River to reach America.

 More than 40 foreign-born athletes are representing the United States in the London Olympics. (Manzano and Keflezighi are runners; Leyva, a gymnast.) And that total does not include the children of immigrants, including the entire women's table tennis team -- Ariel Hsing, Erica Wu and Lily Zhang -- who are all Chinese-Americans.
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