Fear and loathing in Trump's Miami backyard over immigration crackdown

Staring into the camera, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) cut a new campaign ad that told President Trump what so many of her fellow Hispanic Republicans in Miami are saying: Immigration crackdown has gone too far.Why it matters: The anger at Trump over heavy-handed immigration enforcement is palpable in Miami-Dade County, and there's mounting political worry among Republicans across the state that it could cost the GOP in the midterm elections.Zoom in: A bellwether, Miami-Dade is Florida's most-populous county, which Trump flipped to the Republican column in 2020 and 2024 thanks to strong Latino support, especially among Cuban Americans."Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far," Salazar says in her ad. "The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today."Trump carried her district by 15 points two years ago. Today, she's tied in polls with newscaster Eliot Rodriguez, a fellow Cuban American, who said her new ad was a sign of desperation.A Trump adviser told Axios: "I'm getting the Trumpiest Cubans sending me videos from Miami of guys getting busted at places like the gas station, for no apparent reason."By the numbers: In Miami-Dade, 62% of the county's 1.3 million registered voters are Hispanic. They account for 76% of the registered Republicans. 63% of Hispanic voters said they supported "deporting illegal immigrants" while 34% were opposed to them, according to a poll conducted last month by a GOP pollster and shared with AxiosBut those numbers switched when it came to how deportations were being carried out: Just 29% were in favor; 58% were opposed."The support is just evaporating. The economy sucks and ICE is just out of control," said the pollster, who's from Miami. "People feel they didn't sign up for this."Yes, but: Trump ran on a platform of mass deportations. He promised to target undocumented criminals, but the president's critics warned that his aggressive immigration push would lead to raids, arrests in the streets, racial profiling and separated families."There was truth in advertising," the pollster said.Trump last year also began revoking Temporary Protected Status for as many as 1.3 million people across the country, some of whom first received the TPS designation in 1998."Temporary means temporary," a White House official told Axios, noting that President Biden had allowed millions into the country under TPS and a new program that Trump reversed.Ground zero for the Miami-Dade fear and loathing is in Doral. Trump owns a prized golf course there. It's also nicknamed "Doralzuela" because of the large Venezuelan population.Businesses were hit doubly hard last year when Trump canceled TPS for Venezuelans: Legal workers lost the authorization to work, once-legal residents fled, and those who are still there are in hiding or constantly getting picked up by federal agents."Our sales have dropped 70%. We spend hours empty," Katia Rios of Pipo Burgers, told CBS Miami on W