WASHINGTON — Recent Kennett High grad Fiona Davis-Walsh spent part of her spring break in the nation’s capital lobbying lawmakers about immigration.
Davis-Walsh, 19, grew up in Albany, graduated from Kennett in June and now attends Tufts University in Massachusetts.
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