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April 4, 2025

Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus Launches Billboard Campaign to Expose ‘Gang of Four’ for Betraying Immigrant Communities

MIAMI, FL — The Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus is taking bold action to expose four Miami-Dade Cuban-American Republican politicians who have betrayed immigrants, the Hispanic community, and the American Dream. The Caucus is launching a county-wide billboard campaign, with the first billboard going up on the Palmetto expressway between Doral and Hialeah, two of the cities most impacted by their cowardice and neglect.

“Marco Rubio, María Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez and Mario Díaz-Balart have turned their backs on us,” said Abel S. Delgado, President of the Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus and a CubanAmerican. “Rather than standing up for our families, they’ve stood silently while immigrant communities are targeted, detained, and deported. They’ve forgotten where they come from — but we haven’t.”

More than half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans now face the loss of their legal status in the United States — the very country that promised them refuge from dictatorship, repression, and generational poverty. Trump’s immigration agenda is pushing to deport Venezuelan TPS holders back to Maduro’s brutal regime, and to send legally paroled Cuban immigrants back to Cuba’s long-standing tyranny by April 24th. Some are being held indefinitely without due process in El Salvador.

Yesterday, Congresswoman Salazar shamelessly tried to credit the Trump administration for a court-ordered extension of TPS for Venezuelans — even as they continue fighting to revoke it. This victory belongs to immigrant rights advocates, legal champions, and the federal court system, not the politicians enabling the attacks. “We don’t need spin — we need courage,” said María Corina Vegas, a board member of the Caucus. “If Congresswoman Salazar truly cared about our community, she’d stand up to her party, not lie to protect it.”

“This ‘Gang of Four’ is lying and betraying a community that trusted them—people who fled tyranny seeking freedom,” added Vegas. “As a Venezuelan American who watched my country fall into dictatorship, I see the warning signs. Their complicity is shameful. We will make sure everyone knows exactly the traitors they are.”

The billboard campaign is the first step in a sustained effort to hold these officials accountable and engage the Miami-Dade community to fight back against anti-immigrant cruelty and political betrayal.

“We will not be quiet. We will not let them hide behind pretend patriotic speeches while our families are ripped apart,” added Delgado. “These billboards are just the beginning.”

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Abel S. Delgado
(305) 807-5272
president.mddhc@gmail.com