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Citizenship delays imperil voting for hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the 2020 election

  • Written by Ming Hsu Chen, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Citizenship delays imperil voting for hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the 2020 electionCitizenship means the ability to vote, as naturalized citizen Cici Carpio declared in April 2019 in El Paso, Texas.Paul Ratje / AFP/Getty Images

Citizenship unlocks voting rights for immigrants in America. The long wait for naturalized citizenship imperils those rights for a growing number of immigrants.

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