A
coalition of Latino families is going after Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North
Carolina in a pair of Spanish-language billboards that are meant to expose her
record on immigration.
The
billboards went up Tuesday — one in Raleigh and another in Durham — and were
paid for by donations from Latino families. They show an image of Hagan and
assert that the Democratic senator “is not a friend of immigrants.” Hagan is
among the handful of vulnerable Democratic senators running for re-election in
tough races.
Viridiana
Martinez, a Dreamer who helped with the efforts to put up the billboards, said
the purpose of the billboards is to hold Hagan accountable on immigration.
“This
isn’t about a political party,” Martinez said in an interview with VOXXI. “This
is about accountability, and Sen. Hagan needs to know that there are
consequences for being anti-immigrant.”
The
billboards allude to a vote Hagan took in 2006 when she was a state senator to
prohibit undocumented immigrants from being able to get driver’s license in
North Carolina.
