Miami, a city with a vibrant immigrant population, has become one of the epicenters of immigration enforcement in the country, at one point recording more immigration arrests than any other US city. Now, as early voting gets underway, advocates are raising concerns that the presence of federal agents near polling locations could intimidate Latino and immigrant-background voters.
In Monroe, a neighboring county of Miami that includes the Florida Keys, Supervisor of Elections Sherri Hodies said in a statement last week that her team launched an investigation after reports of masked federal agents at a polling place in Key Largo…