The number of immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, key to voting in the fall elections, is at its highest in four years as Democratic Latino groups step up campaigns to expand the Hispanic vote to help Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Pew Research Center’s latest survey showed that applications are up five percent over the same period in 2012, when President Obama won reelection.

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