Maria Elvira Salazar

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.

Cuban-American Republicans, U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar and state Sen. Ileana Garcia, are openly criticizing President Trump's immigration policies.

The brazen attack on Saturday was captured on video and shook a country that decades ago often faced kidnappings and killings of politicians and high-profile people.

In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the lawmakers say gangs, including the Viv Ansanm coalition, control over 85% of the capital city of Port-au-Prince “and are rapidly expanding into previously stable areas.”

Two groups, Keep Them Honest and a group of "Cubans with I-220A," have launched billboard ad campaigns in South Florida, targeting Republican Cuban American politicians Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Carlos Gimenez

South Florida U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and María Elvira Salazar, along with Darren Soto, D-Orlando, said Thursday they introduced the Venezuela TPS Act of 2025 to extend Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants already in the U.S.