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During a September 2026 meeting, Jared Kushner told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Putin had made a similar claim about military progress in Ukraine a year prior.

As of September 2026, some elected Republican sheriffs in Florida have expressed concerns about the deportation of immigrants who have not committed crimes.

A September 2026 report from the DHS Office of Inspector General cited the confinement of migrants in “small metal enclosures” at the Alligator Alcatraz facility as an example of non-compliance with federal standards.

The U.S. government has ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from countries including Haiti and Venezuela.

For months in 2026, Representative María Elvira Salazar has been advocating for a bipartisan bill that would provide a path to legal status and work permits, but not citizenship, for some immigrants with no criminal record.

Representative María Elvira Salazar's proposed immigration bill has the support of more than a dozen Republicans.

The state-run detention facility in the Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz closed in the summer of 2026.

In 2025, a state-run detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz was created in the Everglades as part of immigration crackdowns.

Immigration hard-liners aligned with the Republican party's MAGA wing have criticized Representative María Elvira Salazar's proposed immigration bill, calling it "mass amnesty."

A report released in September 2026 by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found that the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility failed to comply with multiple federal detention standards.

In 2026, Donald Trump endorsed Representative María Elvira Salazar for re-election, writing on Truth Social, “SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN.”

In a television ad released in September 2026, Representative María Elvira Salazar stated that "The same Hispanics who helped you [President Trump] get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today."

Representative María Elvira Salazar, a three-term representative from Miami, serves in the House Republican leadership as an assistant whip.

In the 2024 election, Donald Trump won Florida’s 27th Congressional District with 57 percent of the vote.

In the 2026 election for Florida's 27th Congressional District, Republican incumbent María Elvira Salazar faces Democratic challenger Eliott Rodríguez; both are Cuban American former broadcast journalists.

Fernand R. Amandi, campaign strategist for Eliott Rodríguez, accused Representative María Elvira Salazar of "lying" in her 30-second ad, which is also airing in Spanish.

On September 17, 2026, Florida Representative María Elvira Salazar released a television ad criticizing President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

In a television ad released on September 17, 2026, Representative María Elvira Salazar stated, "Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far."

In 2024, Representative María Elvira Salazar, a three-term Republican representative from Miami, won re-election by 20 percentage points.

Mr. Piker later apologized for stating that the United States "deserved" the September 11 attacks.