Campaign ramps up vs Miami’s Cuban, Republican congressional delegation

Campaign ramps up vs Miami’s Cuban, Republican congressional delegation

… And Secretary of State Marco Rubio A new non-profit that produced videos earlier this month critical of Congress Members Carlos Gimenez and Mario Diaz-Balart — calling them cowards for their silence and complicity in the detention and deportation of thousands of immigrants from our community — has ramped up its campaign with billboards in many […]

Frederica Wilson: ICE is building a tent city at Krome to house more detainees

Frederica Wilson: ICE is building a tent city at Krome to house more detainees

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson took an hourlong tour Thursday of the Krome Detention Facility, where there have been reports of severe overcrowding, leading to unsanitary and dangerous conditions. But she certain she did not get to see the real thing. “I am positive that they took people out today, so I wouldn’t see them,” Wilson said […]

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson will tour troubled Krome Detention Center

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson will tour troubled Krome Detention Center

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson will be the first member of Congress to get a tour of the Krome Detention Center in West Miami-Dade after reports of overcrowded, dangerous, unsanitary and inhumane conditions in the wake of the mass immigrant detentions and deportations by the new Donald Trump administration. Wilson sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland […]

Video blasts U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez for silence on ending TPS, deportations

Video blasts U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez for silence on ending TPS, deportations

“¡Cobarde! ¡Mudo!” Coward! Voiceless! These are the names the narrator calls Congressman Carlos Gimenez in a video released Thursday that shames the former Miami-Dade mayor for his silence and complicity on Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including the rollback of protected status for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, many of whom live in his community. “Where […]

Cuban American congress members stay silent on TPS, immigrant detention

Cuban American congress members stay silent on TPS, immigrant detention

Miami-Dade Dems launch billboard campaign The smug mugs of the four Miami-Dade Cuban American Republicans in Washington, D.C., who have sat silently by as the Donald Trump administration rolls back protections afforded to refugees from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua, are now featured on a billboard seen from the busy Palmetto Expressway with the word […]

Maria Elvira Salazar takes credit for judge extending TPS for Venezuelans

Maria Elvira Salazar takes credit for judge extending TPS for Venezuelans

Once again, Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar is trying to take credit for something she didn’t do. Salazar, who was re-elected last year, was called out when she said she had brought millions in federal dollars to her district and the Miami-Dade area when she actually voted against two federal bills during the Biden administration, including the […]

Gimenez spars with Daniella Levine Cava on immigration

Gimenez spars with Daniella Levine Cava on immigration

Immigration policy is driving a wider rift between Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who in 2017 kowtowed to President Donald Trump’s flimsy threat on cities that did not honor immigration detainer requests — becoming the first U.S. mayor to ask “how high sir?” — and Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, who wants to replace him in 2020. Upon […]

Miami-Dade commissioners ignore public, facts on detainers

Miami-Dade commissioners ignore public, facts on detainers

The saddest part about Friday’s Miami-Dade Commission meeting wasn’t that commissioners ignored the fearful cries and pleas of more than 100 people who urged them to reject Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s directive to hold illegal immigrants arrested in Miami-Dade for an additional 48 hours so they can be picked up by federal authorities. It was pretty […]