Sen. Luján pressures Biden to protect DACA recipients

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : The New Mexico Democrat, alongside his Congressional Hispanic Caucus colleagues, Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Alex Padilla of California, sent Biden a letter the first week of December asking him to protect DACA recipients by streamlining DACA reauthorizations and to extend Temporary Protected Status for Ecuador, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
56% : And I also am hopeful and prayerful that under President Trump, that Dreamers will be respected as well, and there's going to be policy that we can all work on together as Democrats and Republicans," he said.
50% : "I've been very concerned with what I've been hearing from the incoming president, and more so, some of the folks that he's brought in around him that have been saying that they're going to start targeting folks across the country who are our Dreamers, who are DACA, " Luján told the Journal.
49% : "Instead of mass deportations, Luján would like Congress to pursue comprehensive immigration reform and potentially invest in Border Patrol and immigration courts.
27% : In the first week of December, the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops also called on Trump to rethink mass deportations.
26% : If mass deportations are carried out, as Trump promised during his presidential campaign, Luján is concerned that more families would be separated.
24% : "We will see American families torn apart, American citizens torn apart from their families, No. 1, which is not American," Luján said.

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