Mi Familia Vota (MFV), a nonpartisan voter registration effort committed to empowering Hispanic citizens, went to federal court on Wednesday to prevent the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the City of Miami Beach from forcing people registering new voters off of public sidewalks just outside the Miami Beach Convention Center during naturalization ceremonies scheduled for Friday, September 17. The suit, filed in federal district court in Miami, asks for an injunction that would prevent the Department of Homeland Security and the City of Miami Beach from continuing to bar Mi Familia Vota participants from the sidewalk they had used for months until Homeland Security officials objected in August. Co-counsel in the case are Ben Kuehne of Sale & Kuehne, P.A. and Elliot Mincberg of People For the American Way Foundation. [more
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