{"id":402762,"date":"2026-09-17T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402762\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:04:15","slug":"house-republican-releases-campaign-ad-critical-of-trumps-immigration-policies-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402762\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican releases campaign ad critical of Trump\u2019s immigration policies | Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Republican<\/a> congresswoman has released a campaign ad criticizing Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s approach to immigration enforcement, in the latest sign that a key plank of the president\u2019s 2024 re-election campaign has become a liability for his congressional allies ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far,\u201d Florida<\/a>\u2019s Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar says in a 30-second ad<\/a>. \u201cIn July, 50% of the 50,000 people<\/a> that were detained had no criminal record. Be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salazar represents a competitive Miami-area district that is nearly three-quarters Hispanic, and where Trump won by a 15-point margin two years ago after a campaign in which he promised to carry out \u201cmass deportations\u201d. While his administration has implied that those targeted would be undocumented immigrants who committed crimes in the United States, in reality, a substantial<\/a> portion<\/a> of the people arrested since Trump returned to the White House in January 2025 have no criminal record.<\/p>\n

Salazar won re-election by a 20-point margin in 2024, but this year is facing a significant challenge from Eliott Rodriguez, the Democratic nominee and a former television news anchor. A poll<\/a> conducted for his campaign late last month found him tied with Salazar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today,\u201d Salazar said in the ad. \u201cYou can be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. I\u2019m not talking about giving them amnesty. I\u2019m talking about giving them a dignified life in this promised land.\u201d<\/p>\n

First elected in 2020, the congresswoman is a champion of the Dignity Act<\/a>, an immigration reform proposal in the House of Representatives that would create a pathway for some undocumented immigrants to obtain legal status.<\/p>\n

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Salazar\u2019s ad is the latest instance of Republican lawmakers seeking to put distance between themselves and Trump before the 3 November elections, in which Democrats are vying to take back both the House<\/a> and Senate<\/a>. With gas prices high due to the war with Iran<\/a> and Trump\u2019s public approval<\/a> low<\/a> \u2013 including on key issues like handling of immigration<\/a> \u2013 Democrats increasingly believe their candidates are competitive even in heavily Republican seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Republican congresswoman has released a campaign ad criticizing Donald Trump\u2019s approach to immigration enforcement, in the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-402762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}