Voting Rights Lawsuit Challenges Naturalization Delays

We have written often about naturalization delays.  Now, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (see the press release) filed suit on Thursday charging that the U.S. government has failed to timely grant citizenship. Because of a backlog on processing naturalization applications, more than 1 million applicants, mostly Latinos, have had citizenship withheld and with it, the ability to vote and fully participate in determining the future of the country.

For the N.Y. Times report, click here.  The complaint can be found here.  Download naturalization20complaint1.txt  

KJ