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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

House Republican doubles down on jab at Trump’s immigration enforcement

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María Elvira Salazar speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol in Washington DC on 20 May 2026. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

María Elvira Salazar, the Republican congresswoman who has accused the president of going too far on immigration enforcement, doubled down on her criticism of the administration on Sunday, warning Donald Trump that some of his advisers were “compromising his legacy”.

In an interview with CBS News’s Face the Nation, the Florida representative who is locked in a tight race for re-election pleaded with the US president not to “squander” his relationship with Hispanic voters. Though she couched her remarks as criticism of top administration advisers, it was clear that her focus was on Trump’s much-vaunted ambition to carry out the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in US history.

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