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Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar and Texas Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar have teamed up on a sprawling immigration bill.

The GOP’s dominance of Florida’s 27th congressional district is emblematic of the party’s inroads with Latino voters in recent years in much of the U.S. Those gains helped Gov. Ron DeSantis decisively win reelection last year and contributed to the GOP taking back control of the U.S. House

MIAMI — U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar asked the head of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday evening to stop the deportations of Cubans in immigration custody whose information the federal government accidentally published online.

MIAMI — Voters on Tuesday returned U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar to office for a second term representing Florida’s 27th Congressional District, handing her a victory over state Sen. Annette Taddeo in what was widely seen as South Florida’s most competitive congressional race.

MIAMI — Two candidates fighting for votes in South Florida’s most competitive congressional race are trying to appeal to voters by turning to a surprising source: former Colombian President Ivan Duque.

MIAMI — Lin-Manuel Miranda stood in a Coral Gables courtyard. The walls behind him read “Censorship leaves us in the dark,” with a list of banned books printed in black paint.

MIAMI — By flying dozens of Venezuelans to Martha’s Vineyard last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis inflamed a national debate over U.S. immigration policy and put himself in a position to dictate the terms of the discussion.

MIAMI — In blasting the unprecedented FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home this week, Florida Republican leaders revived a familiar theme: The targeting of a former president and political foe is something that could only happen in a “Third-World country.”

Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are among the Republicans who vote to pass the legislation protecting birth control, IUDs and emergency contraception.

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders on Wednesday called on the Senate to pass legislation to enshrine permanent protections for young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, a decade after the Obama administration announced a program to give them temporary relief.

Democratic leaders on Wednesday called on the Senate to pass legislation to enshrine permanent protections for so-called Dreamers.