A story about a young woman, in college now and planning to become an immigration lawyer so she can help the Hispanic community she was raised in. DP
By ANDREW TANGEL, The News Journal
Delaware Online, The News Journal: KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. -- Cristina Tlaseca grew up watching her Mexican immigrant father help migrant laborers at the mushroom farms of Southeastern Pennsylvania join a union.
Inspired by his fight, Tlaseca, 19, joined community service projects during high school and conducted health fairs for migrant workers at labor camps.
She also took part in performances to promote tolerance and diversity, including one highlighting migrant laborers' struggles with immigration, poverty and poor health care.
"That's one of the biggest problems, that people are not aware of what's going on in their own community," Tlaseca said.
Tlaseca, who exudes a sense of conviction uncommon to many teenagers, is a freshman at California University of Pennsylvania, where she majors in English and Spanish.
There, she wants to boost the membership and the outreach efforts of a relatively small Latino student group and take on migrant workers' issues, such as a lack of health care.
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