Posted on 01/26/2025 12:25:45 PM PST by DFG
A Florida Republican has demanded President Donald Trump spare thousands of migrants from deportation amid fears his crackdown could hurt the GOP.
Trump aggressively went full-steam ahead with his pledge to carry out the largest mass deportation effort in US history in his first week back in power, arresting over 2,000 people in a widespread crackdown and put and end to Biden-era immigration programs.
Representative Maria Elvira Salazar issued a desperate letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday begging them to spare migrants who entered the country under Biden's 'humanitarian parole' program from deportation.
While Trump won the 2024 election with 43 percent of the Latino vote, there is growing concern his mass deportation policies could push away newly-loyal GOP voters whose communities are impacted.
For Salazar, who was endorsed by Trump in 2020, this is particularly pertinent as more than two-thirds of voters in her congressional district are Hispanic.
Recent New York Times-Ipsos polling found 87 percent of Americans oppose deporting immigrants who are in the country legally, and 62 percent oppose separating families.
Salazar - a Trump ally - asked the administration to protect migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) who entered the country under the CHNV parole program while they continue their asylum process.
She emphasized that the Republican Party ought to take the higher ground in this situation, and shouldn't penalize the migrants over 'Joe Biden’s screw-ups.'
'I strongly urge you to ensure that all Cubans paroled in under the CHNV program eligible for or with pending applications for the Cuban Adjustment Act are protected from deportation until their cases are fully resolved,' Salazar said.
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Sounds like she is about as Republican as Fidel Castro. She sounds like an extreme version of a RINO.
I don’t think she understands why Trump won. 🙄
That ain’t gonna fly.
“MAGA lawmaker”
“A Florida Republican“
Not the same thing
The Daily Mail needs to figure this out
And this Florida Republican can speak to Governor Desantis.
“While Trump won the 2024 election with 43 percent of the Latino vote, there is growing concern his mass deportation policies could push away newly-loyal GOP voters whose communities are impacted.”
Sounds like those ‘newly-loyal GOP voters’ weren’t here legally...
SOON TO BE FORMER Representative Maria Elvira Salazar ...
The media continues with it’s deceptive terminology... Referring to these illegal aliens as ‘migrants’... They are not migrants. They are there illegally and as such, they can removed immediately.
Problem is that a lot of Cubans who have come in under Biden are communist infiltrators sent by the Castro regime to cause problems in the USA.
Maybe we could make a deal - some of the Cubans can stay if we can send LA Mayor Karen Bass back to Cuba permanently
That Lefty Daily Smear spreads lies .
That Rag
is still spreading that debunked NBC lie
about Mexico and the planes.
Trump haters roam that socialist rag .
“Recent New York Times-Ipsos polling found 87 percent of Americans oppose deporting immigrants who are in the country legally...”
Typical NYT nonsense. Is ANYONE trying to deport people who are here legally?
A few in a sea of RED across the nation! That fake Republican’s POS are the extreme minority when it comes to deportation. Get them all the heck
out of our nation. Especially the Chinese spies, the Muslim terrorists, the Chilean gangs, the TDA gang, and the dog and cat eater Haitians get them out!
I suspect that the term “legally” has been Clintonized.
I think Salazar has forgotten why Trump won heavily Hispanic Texas border counties for the first time in over a hundred years. She can be ignored.
She demands?!!
Oh my...she’s going to be disappointed.
This is an example of leftists trying to speak a backlash into existence. They are living in the past. They haven’t the power anymore.
If this Biden program gave legal entrance to these people, then they are currently here legally.
Those are the people this lawmaker is saying shouldn’t be deported.
The trouble, though, is that Biden let people stay in the US while their asylum claims are being checked out, and most never show up for the hearings. They just disappear into the country. They entered illegally, Biden gave them permission to stay here, and then they are only heard from to collect benefits.
Hopefully a lot of these people who don’t really need asylum will self-deport.
She’s Deep State.
In his first four years Obama deported 3.2 million aliens, can we at least deport that many before liberals start crying and wailing?
“… Representative Maria Elvira Salazar..”
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This woman is NOT MAGA. Period!
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