Alonso Leon and Family Wound

leon: Instead, her family wound up in an unheated house in Oregon with no indoor plumbing, eking out a living by picking strawberries, according to Metro News. It is all the more remarkable, then, that Alonso Leon became one of the first people brought to the U.S. illegally to become a lawmaker in America when she was elected last November to Oregon's Legislature. Teresa Alonso Leon envisioned a better life in a promised land when she was brought from Mexico to America as a young girl. Alonso Leon's victory shows that human potential does not know immigration status, and that among America's immigrants, especially those who have come here as children and benefited from the right to education, their potential offers leadership for the country, said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. We didn't get our woman president that we were hoping for, but they got me as a legislator, Alonso Leon said with a laugh in her small office in the Oregon Capitol. The irony that Alonso Leon was elected the same day that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton is not lost on her. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.