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In an interview Saturday on CNN, the South Florida Republican lawmaker said he has directly relayed his concerns about President Donald Trump’s deportation enforcement strategy with Administration officials.

From visas to an asylum claim and now to Temporary Protected Status, one South Florida couple has been living with immigration uncertainty for more than a decade. They now face the possibility of being forced to leave in September, while their US-born child could be denied birthright citizenship.

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

When the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday the Trump administration could strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans while litigation continues in the lower courts, the move sent shockwaves.

UPDATED: The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.

A recent federal court ruling safeguarding Venezuelan TPS holders is stirring cautious hope among Haitians, as over half a million remain protected or eligible amid ongoing uncertainty due to Trump's crackdown on immigration.

A group of Latino Miami-Dade Democrats is calling out “four traitorous Republican Cuban-American politicians” — with a billboard ad campaign — for failing to protect tens of thousands of immigrants in South Florida from being deported under the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.

These policies won’t just affect Venezuelan and Haitian TPS holders personally. It will likely cause some big waves in the Florida economy.

Florida leads the nation in the number of immigrants with TPS at 341,000. The termination of TPS could impact Florida's education and healthcare industries.

The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was set to expire April 7 after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reversed protections granted by the Biden administration.

In a symbolic move, the Miami-Dade County School Board on Wednesday approved a resolution to press the Trump administration and Congress to create new legal pathways for immigrants from Venezuela and Haiti who are losing their temporary immigration status.

The Democratic lawmaker say the “abrupt removal of over 500,000 workers will have an immense and irreparable impact on businesses across the country and the economy at large,” noting that collectively they contribute annually $2.3 billion in federal taxes and $1.3 billion in state and local taxes.