MIAMI — Not three weeks had passed since Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made headlines all over the country after taking credit for sending planes full of mostly undocumented Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard when U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar — a Cuban American freshman congresswoman from Miami — addressed a small group of migrants in Doral.
“I assure you, these people would kiss the floor because no other country has given them the opportunities that the United States has given them as residents and now as citizens,” Salazar told the couple of TV cameras that showed up at the Tuesday night event earlier this month.
It had all the makings of an intimate campaign event as Salazar seeks reelection for Florida’s newly redrawn Congressional District 27 against Democrat Annette Taddeo, a Colombian American state senator.
