The New York Civil Liberties Union and the poll worker who was visited by federal immigration agents at a polling location in Syracuse following a social media post she made filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for failing to release records.
Perry Grossman, attorney and director of the voting rights project at the NYCLU, said they filed the lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain records that explain why the agents visited Paigelynne Gonyea on primary day on June 23 over a social media post she made in January.
“It is unthinkable to me that she would get a visit over some core political speech like that, and they delivered this warning notice to her suggesting that something she had done exposed her to criminal prosecution in some way,” Grossman said…