(AURN News) — The Justice Department says it is sending federal monitors to polling sites in Miami-Dade County for today’s Florida primary, citing transparency, ballot security and compliance with federal law.
This comes as thousands of Haitians in South Florida have lost temporary protected status and are living with increased fear of detention and deportation by ICE.
Miami-Dade has one of the largest Haitian populations in the country.
The DOJ Civil Rights Division, led by Harmeet Dhillon, has also spent the summer sending letters to all 50 states warning of possible criminal charges over noncitizen voting, despite losing 23 straight federal court cases in efforts to obtain voter data.
So far this primary season, the DOJ says it has deployed more than 75 monitors to more than 200 polling locations across five states. During the 2022 midterms, the department sent monitors to nine states.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, reacting to the DOJ’s decision to send election monitors to his state’s primary, compared the effort to “a fox monitoring a henhouse.”
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