In effort to beef up his outreach to the Latino community, Bernie Sanders has hired high-profile immigration rights activist Cesar Vargas to work for his presidential campaign.

Vergas' advocacy group, the Dream Action Coalition, announced that the leading undocumented activist joined the Sanders campaign in a tweet on Thursday. According to reports, he will work to mobilize Latino voters in Nevada. He will also work under Arturo Carmona, the former director of the advocacy organization Presente.org, who now leads Sanders' Latino outreach team as the southwest political director.

"I joined the campaign because the senator believes not only that we should meet DREAMers but that DREAMers should be part of the conversation to champion policies for the Latino community," Vargas said in a statement sent to BuzzFeed News.

Throughout his career, the 31-year-old Mexican activist has pushed for undocumented youth to be able to serve in the military and for Obama's executive actions on immigration. He also became the first undocumented lawyer to be approved to practice law in the state of New York.

According to Vargas, his recruitment to the Sanders' campaign is reflective of the power and influence of DREAMers -- undocumented youth who have lived most of their lives in America and are fighting for the right to achieve higher education.

"It shows the evolution of the DREAMer movement," Vargas told Fusion. "We've graduated from colleges, we've been politically active on immigration reform. Now DREAMers want to be a part of the 2016 election."

Vargas said he took note of Sanders' support for the undocumented children crossing the border during the Central American refugee crisis in 2014.

"Like a lot of Dreamers, Senator Sanders said we needed to protect those children," he said.

Vargas, however, acknowledged the challenge that Sanders faces in reaching Democratic Latino voters being that an August Gallup poll showed only about 25 percent of Latinos are familiar with the Vermont senator.

"Hillary Clinton without question has the name recognition," said Vargas. "But it's important that people in our community know there is someone out there with really cool policies. Our community just needs to be introduced to the senator."