Maria Elvira Salazar

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.

Former Key Biscayne Mayor Mike Davey, who didn’t make it past a Democratic primary in 2024, is looking at making another run for Congress, motivated by a desire to reverse some of President Donald Trump’s assaults on the rule of law.

The legislation, known as the Take It Down Act, aims to crack down on the sharing of material known as “revenge porn,” requiring that social media companies and online platforms remove such images within two days of being notified of them.

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Miami, is pressing the Trump administration to protect migrants who qualified under former President Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program, which specifically allows Cubans, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Haitians to live and work in the country for up to two years.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar are introducing a bipartisan bill to crack down on loopholes that allow oil company revenues to flow to the Venezuela’s authoritarian government led by President Nicolás Maduro.

The six Venezuelan opposition members have been sheltering for months in the Argentine diplomatic compound in the capital, Caracas.