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Editorial: House Republicans wanted to do away with asylum claims, then Miami’s Maria Elvira Salazar spoke up

A proposed Republican “border security” plan, now stalled in the U.S. House, is so extreme that even some members of the party, namely Miami-Dade’s Maria Elvira Salazar, have denounced it, saying it jeopardized the U.S. asylum laws and the very idea of this nation opening its arms to those escaping…

Tribune News Service · Feb 3, 2023

Bloody clash at Miami-Dade prison ends with inmate dead, 10 officers on leave, one resigned

MIAMI — State prison officials acknowledged on Saturday that an incarcerated person died five days earlier, on Monday, after a clash with correctional officers during a transfer at Dade Correctional Institution south of Florida City.

Miami Herald · Feb 19, 2022