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WATCH: Axios' @RussContreras hosts a conversation on key issues impacting the Latino community, featuring civil rights activist @DoloresHuerta and @SenatorLujan (D-NM).
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@RussContreras @DoloresHuerta @SenatorLujan 91-year-old civil rights activist @DoloresHuerta: “None of us can rest, not even myself, until we can really end the mass slayings of people of color and start getting some justice in our society so that all people are treated equally.”

@RussContreras @DoloresHuerta @SenatorLujan .@DoloresHuerta on the need to pass immigration reform under a Democratic administration: "Every single immigrant group that came to the United States got their legal status and eventually became citizens...Our first immigrants, we have to remind them, came from Europe."

@RussContreras @DoloresHuerta @SenatorLujan .@SenatorLujan (D-N.M) on bringing more prosperity to the state: “Being able to attract more opportunities, businesses, investments in our state, getting 100% connectivity in every rural urban part of New Mexico — I know that that can be a transformational change.”

@RussContreras @DoloresHuerta @SenatorLujan Luján on working with fellow Latino senators, including 3 other Democrats: “We have a responsibility now that we are at the table to ensure that the Latino community and the Hispanic community are not going to be left out.”