DEMS/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda has few more outspoken opponents than Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who, as chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, has served as the voice of Hispanic and Democratic members of Congress in condemning the administration’s policies. The New Mexico Democrat is hoping to take that message to a new platform next year, leaving Congress to run to be governor of her border state, where a win would position her to square off directly with Trump on everything from National Guard deployments on the border to his policies affecting legal and illegal immigration. Signs of what could be to come are obvious on the campaign trail. At a pep talk for volunteers headed out to canvas on a recent Saturday [5-19-18] at her Albuquerque campaign office, Lujan Grisham was introduced by two young undocumented advocates, one of whom, Ivonne Orozco, is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient and was New Mexico’s teacher of the year. Lujan Grisham dedicated part of her remarks at that event to an update on efforts in Congress to force a vote on preserving DACA on the House floor — and slammed what she called ‘racist’ and ‘bigoted’ recent remarks about immigrants from Trump chief of staff John Kelly, which were met with boos and hisses from her supporters.”
-Tal Kopan, “Trump’s top immigration critic could become the governor of a key border state,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 21, 2018 4:11 am