Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: House Republican doubles down on jab at Trump’s immigration enforcement

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Source: theguardian.com

<p>Florida’s María Elvira Salazar warns Trump that advisers are ‘compromising his legacy’ and not showing ‘whole picture’</p><p>María Elvira Salazar, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Republican</a> congresswoman who has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/17/republican-maria-elvira-salazar-campaign-ad-trump-immigration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">accused</a> the president of going too far on immigration enforcement, doubled down on her criticism of the administration on Sunday, warning <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> that some of his advisers were “compromising his legacy”.</p><p>In an interview with CBS News’s Face the Nation, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Florida</a> representative who is locked in a <a href="https://votehub.com/2026-forecast/race/?race_id=H2026FL27" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">tight race</a> for re-election pleaded with the US president not to “squander” his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/09/trump-latino-hispanic-vote-election" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">relationship</a> 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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/19/trump-rnc-republicans-speech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">ambition</a> to carry out the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in US history.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/20/maria-elvira-salazar-republican-trump-immigration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>