A decade after a tough immigrant enforcement bill triggered massive protests in multiple cities and inspired hundreds to become citizens, two groups have launched a new campaign to get more legal residents to become citizens and register to vote, NBC News reported.
The Latino Victory Foundation and National Partnership for New Americans unveiled their plan, dubbed New American Democracy Campaign, to help 1 million people through the naturalization process next year and register many of them to vote in time for November's elections.
There are 8.8 million people in the U.S. who are already eligible to become U.S. citizens but have not done so. Of those, 3.9 million are Latinos.
The campaign also plans to target some of the 1.9 million U.S.-born citizen children of immigrants who turn 18 every two-year election cycle for voter registration.
