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Miami Republicans’ plea for help from Biden official wades into partisan immigration chasm

Border crisis: Miami Republicans wedged between hardline, “weak” Biden

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The online locator system expansion request was sent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Antonio Fins, Stephany Matat

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Even as their party seeks his resignation, three Miami congressional Republicans last month asked for an assist from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas amid a surge in Cubans heading to Florida.

U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar, all Cuban-Americans, asked Mayorkas to add Cubans stopped at sea to a federal government-run online database listing would-be refugees and immigrants. Their Dec. 2 letter predated the national headlining of the Cuban migration surge when a group of 300 landed at Dry Tortugas National Park on New Year’s Day, temporarily shutting down the remote attraction in the middle of the holiday weekend.

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