Maria Elvira Salazar

Even before the federal government shut down Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in South Florida were engaging in partisan finger pointing on who's to blame for the legislative standoff.

President Trump failed to revoke DACA in his first term and his focus on immigration this time has mostly ignored the policy. Still, Republican lawmakers are deferring to the president on the issue.

Robin Peguero is blasting the Miami Republican lawmaker for voting against a critical infrastructure project in Cutler Bay — and then championing its approval.

The Cuban government is directly involved in Russia's war against Ukraine by providing thousands of Cuban mercenaries, making the communist island nation one of the largest foreign sources of troops for the Kremlin, Ukrainian intelligence officials told South Florida's Cuban-American members of Congress.

Richard Lamondin, a Miami-based environmental services company co-founder, is running for the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in the 2026 midterm election. Lamondin is a long shot, as the 27th congressional district is identified as a "solid Republican" seat

A bipartisan group South Florida lawmakers want the street in front of the Cuban government’s embassy in Washington renamed after a prominent Cuban dissident killed 13 years ago this month in a mysterious car crash in Cuba.

More than two dozen labor, community, and advocacy groups have formed the Battleground Alliance, a political action committee aligned with Democrats to target three Republican-held congressional House districts in Florida, including the South Florida seat held by U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar.

Robin Peguero, 39, formally announced his campaign on Tuesday, saying his mission, if elected, would be to "cut costs for Miami’s families, strengthen our broken immigration system consistent with the rule of law, and protect the constitutional rights of all."

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar is teaming up with Texas Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar to introduce a "revolutionary immigration reform bill" that would further secure the border and allow undocumented immigrants in the country prior to 2021 to become legal U.S. residents.

COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar risks discrediting her own Lincolnesque immigration reform efforts.

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar said Friday that she and a Democratic congresswoman from Texas will be teaming up to introduce “a revolutionary piece of legislation that will offer real solutions to fix our immigration system and finally bring order to chaos for good.”

Boca Helping Hands, which serves 35,000 people a year with food, job training and financial assistance, was already feeling the pressure from earlier federal budget cuts and a significant drop in food donations.