The Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus is taking a campaign against Florida’s Cuban-American Republicans not to the airwaves, but the highway.
A new billboard, which is going up on the Palmetto Expressway between Doral and Hialeah, takes aim at Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Reps. María Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gimenez, and Mario Díaz-Balart, accusing them of failing to stand up for immigrants at risk of deportation.
The placard reads “Traitors” in white lettering on a red backdrop, “To Immigrants, To Miami Dade, To The American Dream,” alongside gray pictures of the public officials.
“Marco Rubio, María Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gimenez y Mario Díaz-Balart have turned their backs on us,” said Abel S. Delgado, president of the Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus. “Rather than standing up for our families, they’ve stood silently while immigrant communities are targeted, detained, and deported.”
The timing of the billboard campaign comes just as the Trump administration has been ensnared in legal battles over their deportation tactics, including the use of a wartime law to send hundreds of alleged gang members to a prison in El Salvador.
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