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    "parsed_content": "U.S. Immigration CrackdownAgent Charged With LyingICE\u2019s Rush for RecruitsBirthright CitizenshipICE Arrests SoarTargeting VisasAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTG.O.P. Representative Breaks With Trump in Ad: Hispanic Voters \u2018Feel Betrayed\u2019Representative Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar, a three-term representative from Miami, won re-election by 20 percentage points in 2024. Her ad suggests worry among some Republicans about their standing with Hispanic voters.Listen \u00b7 5:08 min Share full articleVideoG.O.P. Representative Breaks With Trump on ImmigrationRepresentative Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar of Florida released an ad on Thursday assailing President Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown in a rare break from the Republican Party.CreditCredit...Haiyun Jiang\/The New York TimesBy Patricia MazzeiMichael Gold and Shane GoldmacherPublished Sept. 17, 2026Updated Sept. 18, 2026, 4:47 a.m. ETLeer en espa\u00f1olSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Representative Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar, a Florida Republican, released a television ad on Thursday directly assaulting President Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown, a rare and remarkable break and a warning sign for her party of eroding support among Hispanic voters.\u201cMr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far,\u201d Ms. Salazar said straight into the camera. She later added: \u201cThe same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.\u201dThe decision by Ms. Salazar, a three-term representative from Miami, to record such an ad is striking given that she won re-election by 20 percentage points in 2024 and serves in the House Republican leadership as an assistant whip. Mr. Trump carried the district two years ago with 57 percent of the vote, and Ms. Salazar\u2019s race in Florida\u2019s 27th Congressional District has not been considered among the nation\u2019s most competitive.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBut her ad \u2014 and its message \u2014 appear to be a sign of backlash to Mr. Trump\u2019s immigration policy in Hispanic communities. Even in South Florida, which has swung to the political right in recent election cycles, some Republicans have been raising concerns for many months that unpopular policies could cost some of them in the November midterms.ImageMs. Salazar\u2019s new ad was released Wednesday and features her speaking in front of the White House.Credit...Salazar for CongressOutside of Florida, Democrats are hoping to compete in four Texas districts with large Latino populations that Republicans redrew to be more favorable to their party.Mr. Trump endorsed Ms. Salazar for re-election earlier this year, writing on Truth Social, \u201cSHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN.\u201d Republicans have generally been reluctant to break with Mr. Trump, fearing both backlash from the president himself and from his supporters. Ms. Salazar\u2019s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.Ms. Salazar faces a challenge from Eliott Rodr\u00edguez, a Democrat, in a matchup of parallel biographies: Both are Cuban American former broadcast journalists.Fernand R. Amandi, Mr. Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s campaign strategist, accused Ms. Salazar of \u201clying\u201d in the 30-second ad, which is also airing in Spanish.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cShe did this,\u201d Mr. Amandi said in a statement. \u201cShe owns all of these deportations, ICE harassment and racial profiling. She voted for all this. She gave Trump the billions in ICE funding and the tools to do this. Don\u2019t let her phony, eleventh-hour, \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019 tears fool you because her boss\u2019s immigration policy is now political poison in her re-election campaign.\u201dSign up for the On Politics newsletter. It's a pivotal moment for American politics. Join us for 2026 and beyond. Get it sent to your inbox.Back in Washington, Ms. Salazar has been open about her belief that her party needs to shift, even slightly, on its hard-line stance on immigration if it wants to keep the support of Hispanic voters who helped Mr. Trump win in 2024.For months, she has been pushing other House Republicans to back a bipartisan bill that would give some immigrants with no criminal background a path to obtain legal status and work permits but not citizenship.That legislation has put her squarely at odds with immigration hard-liners more closely aligned with the party\u2019s MAGA wing, who have blasted her for a bill that they call mass amnesty. Their criticism burst into public view during a congressional recess earlier this year, when Representative Brandon Gill of Texas began criticizing Ms. Salazar\u2019s bill on social media, inciting a series of back-and-forth posts that eventually roped in other far-right Republicans.Ms. Salazar\u2019s bill has support from more than a dozen Republicans, many of them in battleground districts where Mr. Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown has been unpopular.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSouth Florida has been rocked by federal and state law enforcement efforts to crack down on immigration, including the creation last year of a state-run detention facility in the Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz. The facility closed this summer after proving costly and ineffective; a report released this week by the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Office of Inspector General found that the center failed to comply with a host of federal detention standards. One example in the report: the confinement of migrants in \u201csmall metal enclosures.\u201dThe end of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from politically unstable countries such as Haiti and Venezuela has left parts of the region feeling deserted as thousands of immigrants have either been detained or secluded themselves from public life, too frightened to work or go to school.Some local elected officials in South Florida, including Republicans in Doral, home to one of Mr. Trump\u2019s golf resorts, have said they disagree with the harsh immigration enforcement. Some elected Republican sheriffs in Florida have also expressed concerns about the deportations of immigrants who have not committed crimes.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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