Desperate MAGA Rep Pleads Directly With Trump to End Key Policy

Screenshot/Salazar For Congress / Salazar For Congress A Republican congresswoman has accused Donald Trump of betraying his supporters with his hardline immigration tactics.

In a video released Thursday morning, South Florida Rep.

Maria Elvira Salazar disavowed the 80-year-old president’s immigration policies, alleging Trump had gone “too far.” “The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today,” she said.

Salazar, the representative for the moderately red Miami-Dade County, noted that half of immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in July had no criminal convictions or pending charges, a figure attributed to the Deportation Data Project.

Salazar addressed Trump directly, cautioning him to be “careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policy” and pleading with him to “be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery, and Reagan was for communism.” “I’m not talking about giving them amnesty.

I’m talking about giving them a dignified life in this promised land,” she said.

The former Telemundo host released a similar video in Spanish.

A spokesperson for the campaign did not immediately respond to questions from the Daily Beast.

The video comes a week after Salazar, who is locked in a tight race against Democratic opponent Eliott Rodriguez, was noticeably absent from Trump’s inaugural midterm convention in Dallas, Texas.

In 2024, Trump won Salazar’s district by nearly 15 points.

Now, polls show the president is ten points underwater.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The county has been heavily impacted by his administration’s hostile immigration crackdown.

In addition to having a robust immigrant community, Miami-Dade County was home to the hellscape dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the now-shuttered Florida immigration detention center that was accused of committing human rights violations.