A North Carolina-based organization comprising of undocumented immigrant youths protested the state's Democratic senator this past weekend and her stance on immigrant rights and the DREAM Act.

During a campaign event in North Carolina, members of the NC DREAM Team walked on stage while Sen. Kay Hagan addressed supporters. With signs stating "Friends Don't Deport Friends" and "Kay Hagan Lost My Vote," two protesters stood alongside Hagan.

"We definitely support immigration reform, but you need to talk to (Republican senatorial challenger) Thom Tillis," Hagan said after seeing a protester standing next to her. "I've support common sense, bipartisan immigration reform."

According to the NC DREAM Team, the organization wants to highlight Hagan's lack of support toward immigrants. NC DREAM Team acknowledged Hagan's 2006 vote to take away driver licenses from immigrants and her opposition vote on the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act in 2010. Hagan also voted against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

"Senator Hagan: This isn't a friendship. This is an abusive relationship. One in which you have taken our trust, unity, and respect for granted for too long. And we are done," the NC DREAM Team noted.

The NC DREAM Team's protest comes as a billboard campaign was unveiled with a message next to Hagan's image: "La Senadora Hagan no es amiga de los inmigrantes" (or "Sen. Hagan is not friends of immigrants").

The protest follows interruptions at Hagan's Oct. 25 campaign event featuring Hillary Clinton. Members of the national immigration organization United We Dream protested with one sign reading, "Hillary, Do You Stand With Our Immigrant Families?"

Hagan has said she is against President Barack Obama's option to issue an executive action on immigration. According to Politico, Hagan said the immigration issue should be handled by Congress.

"Before we left for recess, I made the comment weeks and weeks ago that this is a congressional decision," Hagan said via Politico. "I've supported the immigration reform bill. ... I think the House needs to take that legislation up."

In late September, a nonpartisan coalition of 39 national Latino organizations published a scorecard of the 113th Congress on how lawmakers' votes affected the social, economic and political life of Latinos. The coalition, known as the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, gave Hagan a 92 percent score, which is better than Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who received 0 percent.

Hagan has been campaigning for her reelection against Tillis. Polling data from Marist College Institute for Public Opinion showed the senatorial candidates tied at 43 percent, each.

"Up until this point, incumbent Hagan has been considered the strongest Democrat among the so-called Democratic firewall states in this election cycle," Marist College Institute for Public Opinion Director Dr. Lee M. Miringoff said. "Now, this is a contest that could go either way, and the outcome may determine control of the Senate."

Most millennials, between the ages of 18 and 29 years old, strongly favored Hagan with 55 percent while 35 percent supported Tillis. Four percent of millennial respondents supported Libertarian candidate Sean Haugh.

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