Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., is asking Trump’s Department of Homeland Security to spare some migrants from deportation, even though they are otherwise not protected under the new guidelines put forth by the Trump administration.
Salazar wrote in a letter to acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman that she was concerned about how the new guidance may affect “individuals in Miami,” a city which according to Pew Research Center accounts for one of the three largest populations of immigrants in the U.S. It is unclear how many of the people described as immigrants by Pew are in the U.S. legally.
Salazar expressed concern over Trump’s decision to end a Biden-era program that afforded some protections to Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) immigrants. In the letter, published yesterday, Salazar said Biden had created the program “on dubious legal ground” but that those who were “still enrolled under” the program and should be protected until their cases are resolved.
“Since many of these individuals currently reside in Miami, there are open questions on how exactly this will be implemented,” Salazar wrote.
