Fear and loathing in Trump's Miami backyard over immigration crackdown

Staring into the camera, Rep.

Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) cut a new campaign ad that told President Trump what so many of her fellow Hispanic Republicans in Miami are saying: Immigration crackdown has gone too far.

Why it matters: The anger at Trump over heavy-handed immigration enforcement is palpable in Miami-Dade County, and there's mounting political worry among Republicans across the state that it could cost the GOP in the midterm elections.

Zoom in: A bellwether, Miami-Dade is Florida's most-populous county, which Trump flipped to the Republican column in 2020 and 2024 thanks to strong Latino support, especially among Cuban Americans.

"Mr.

President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far," Salazar says in her ad.

"The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today." Trump carried her district by 15 points two years ago.

Today, she's tied in polls with newscaster Eliot Rodriguez, a fellow Cuban American, who said her new ad was a sign of desperation.

A Trump adviser told Axios: "I'm getting the Trumpiest Cubans sending me videos from Miami of guys getting busted at places like the gas station, for no apparent reason." By the numbers: In Miami-Dade, 62% of the county's 1.3 million registered voters are Hispanic.

They account for 76% of the registered Republicans.

63% of Hispanic voters said they supported "deporting illegal immigrants" while 34% were opposed to them, according to a poll conducted last month by a GOP pollster and shared with Axios But those numbers switched when it came to how deportations were being carried out: Just 29% were in favor; 58% were opposed.

"The support is just evaporating.

The economy sucks and ICE is just out of control," said the pollster, who's from Miami.

"People feel they didn't sign up for this." Yes, but: Trump ran on a platform of mass deportations.