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Protecting the Rights of Civic Engagement Groups Helping America’s Newest Citizens Vote


The Trump administration is making it harder for newly naturalized citizens to exercise their freedom to vote. A new rule enacted by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) prohibits nonpartisan civic engagement groups from providing voter registration and education services at administrative naturalization ceremonies — a long-standing tradition that encourages new Americans to participate in the political process. 

This shocking rollback of the time-honored role that civic engagement groups have played in the voter registration process is both illegal and unconstitutional — and it could deny tens of thousands of new Americans assistance in registering to vote as part of their naturalization ceremony. 

Campaign Legal Center, on behalf of the League of Women Voters and a number of state and local Leagues, has sued to end this anti-voter policy. Just since USCIS issued its revised rule, Leagues across the country have had to cancel more than 160 planned voter registration events at administrative naturalization ceremonies, leaving thousands unassisted. 

We cannot have a strong democracy unless we have laws that ensure all voters, including newly naturalized citizens, can access the ballot box. Any attempt to limit the freedom to vote is an attempt to silence American voters. 

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