Jessica Cisneros, 26, an immigration and human rights lawyer, is challenging Rep. Cuellar, 64, in Tuesday's Democratic primary for the seat Cuellar has held for 15 years.
Once seen as a long shot, Cisneros has pushed Cuellar to take her challenge seriously.
"This is going to be generational change" if Cisneros wins, said Denisce Palacios, 22, a volunteer for her campaign and campus organizer forCisneros is the child of Mexican immigrants who gained citizenship through the 1986 immigration law signed by President Ronald Reagan. Cuellar is the son of migrant workers, both born in the U.S., and one of eight children.
"It's not so much a generational divide, at least for us, because we have had a very high poverty rate for a long time here in Laredo," she said in an interview between knocking on doors to ask for votes Saturday afternoon. Her aunt was diagnosed with stomach cancer, she said, and fell into a coverage gap of being too well off to afford government assistance but too poor to pay for it,"so she passed away."
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