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The request by the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus in a letter to the Department of Justice follows a similar request by a Latino civil rights organization.
The request for federal authorities to intervene is the latest escalation in response to what Texas leaders have often described as efforts to secure elections. In the letter requesting a civil rights review, they wrote about Lydia Martinez, an 80-year-old grandmother with 35 years as a LULAC member who was woken up at 6 a.m. by armed authorities who interrogated her for hours and confiscated her devices, personal calendar and voter registration materials.
In their letter Friday, the Texas Senate Democratic caucus pointed to the raids targeting LULAC members and a series of other actions that, they wrote, raised “serious concerns” that Paxton and other state leaders might be violating federal civil rights and voting laws.by Paxton’s office into voter registration organizations following a debunked claim by a Fox News host that migrants were registering to vote outside a state drivers license office near Fort Worth.
“Voter registration organizations seek to improve civic engagement in a state that has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country,” the letter states. “Many of them now are concerned they will be the next to be harassed and targeted.
In response, Paxton’s office has sought to depose the leaders of at least two organizations that provide humanitarian aid to migrants and tried to shut down two other groups.
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