Florida GOP Rep Begs DHS To Spare Some Migrants

The Hill reports:

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging DHS to spare some migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean from being deported under the new administration’s immigration guidelines. She asked the acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman to continue “protecting” Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans who do not have criminal records and were permitted to enter and work in the U.S. under former President Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program.

“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 wrote. “Additionally, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians who arrived under the CHNV program, have no criminal record, and have applied for asylum through the proper legal channels, should also be protected until their cases are fully resolved,” she added.

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Last year Salazar made news for presenting a giant check to a small business group and then claiming not to remember having voted against the bill that delivered the funds seen on the check.

That same week she appeared here when she declared that that “all Americans will serve and praise Jesus.”

Salazar appeared here in November 2023 when she praised “homogeneous” Argentina for having “one race, one culture, one religion.”

Salazar also appeared here in 2021 when she condemned Biden for “handing over” the international rights to COVID vaccines, thereby “undermining” US-based big pharma of their profits.

Salazar missed her 2020 swearing-in as a freshman because she was ill with COVID.

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