The day after Congresswoman Frederica Wilson visited the ICE Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade to investigate claims of overcrowded, unsanitary, dangerous and inhuman conditions, a female Haitian detainee died at the Broward Transitional Center, another ICE facility 58 miles to the northeast.
On Friday, Wilson will be joined by Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to visit the ICE facility where Marie Ange Blaise died last week. They will go in at 9 a.m. and tour the facility for 90 minutes, according to a press statement from Wilson’s office. There will be another press gaggle right outside afterwards at 10:30 a.m.
Read related: Frederica Wilson: ICE is building a tent city at Krome to house more detainees
Earlier in April, Wilson visited Krome but said she didn’t find the overcrowded conditions that had been reported and seen in videos taken by detainees and shared in social media. She suggested the federal government bussed detainees out for a “field trip” and cleaned up to cover up the real conditions detainees are living with.
How does she know they won’t do the same thing in Broward?
Blaise, 44, was arrested Feb. 12 as she tried to board a flight to North Carolina from the international airport in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, according to a public statement by ICE. She did not have a valid immigrant visa, ICE said, and was issued a Notice of Expedited Removal immediately. She was first taken to a custodial facility in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and sent the following week to the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. On April 5, ICE transferred her to the Pompano Beach Detention Center at 3900 Powerline Rd.
She wasn’t even there three weeks when ICE reported she had died.
Her death is under investigation.
Cherfilus-McCormick suggested on Wednesday on the House floor that Blaise did not get needed medical care while in ICE custody.
“Marie had been complaining about chest pain for hours,” Cherfilus-McCormick, the only Haitian-American Congress member, said. “They gave her some pills and told her to go lie down. Unfortunately, Marie never woke up.
“Her loved ones deserve answers. They deserve accountability,” she said.
ICE denied keeping Blaise from medical care and said all detainees get the proper treatment.
“ICE remains committed to ensuring that all those in its custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments,” the agency said in a statement. “Comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment individuals arrive and throughout the entirety of their stay. All people in ICE custody receive medical, dental and mental health screening and 24-hour emergency care at each detention facility. At no time during detention is a detained illegal alien denied emergent care.”
But that is during normal operations. These facilities are reportedly stretched beyond capacity. At Krome, Wilson reported seeing a plexiglass or plastic tent had just been built to house up to 400 immigrants. Guards are likely overwhelmed and raw. The detainees are scared out of their minds. It is a recipe for disaster.
It certainly hasn’t been smooth going. At least six people have died in ICE custody so far this year, according to the agency’s own reporting.
Read related: Campaign ramps up vs Miami’s Cuban, Republican congressional delegation
“This Administration’s deportation process has been sloppy and reckless since Day 1. No due process and no transparency,” Cherfilus-McCormick said to her colleagues. “Just families being illegally ripped apart and left to fend for themselves.
“In severe instances, innocent people have actually died,” she said.
“Immigrants are being treated without basic dignity and being denied medical care,” Cherfilus-McCormick said. “It is this neglect and cruelty that is really hurting our American families who are being deported at this moment. We must have transparency. We must have justice.”
It seems like White House and ICE care about as much about a death on their watch as the Cuban-American Republican congress members who haven’t done much if anything to object to what’s been happening. Five days after Blaise died, ICE giddily announced it had arrested 66,463 people without legal immigration Status, deporting 65,682 in the first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency? Has anybody bothered to find out what happened to the other 981?
And it doesn’t look like the Trump administration is going to back off its aggressive tactics — recruiting local police and the United States Postal Service, raiding schools, snatching college students off the street or the spouses of U.S. citizens at immigration meetings — anytime soon. ICE just said that last week’s Operation Tidal Wave in Florida netted more than 1,100 detainees and Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he wants the National Guard to act as immigration judges to deport people faster.
“What we’re doing is a change in the culture this first hundred days, and we are seeing success,” Homeland Security Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told National Public Radio, which is doing a great job while it still exists.
“But we’re going to see those numbers increase in the next hundred days.”
What? The number of detainees that die in custody?
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… And Secretary of State Marco Rubio
A new non-profit that produced videos earlier this month critical of Congress Members Carlos Gimenez and Mario Diaz-Balart — calling them cowards for their silence and complicity in the detention and deportation of thousands of immigrants from our community — has ramped up its campaign with billboards in many of the neighborhoods they and other Cuban Americans in the Republican Party.
¡Ya tu sabes!
Keep Them Honest, Inc. a “nonpartisan public information organization,” announced on Monday the launch of a “paid advertising initiative aimed at exposing the cruelty and complicity of South Florida’s top Cuban-American Republican officials as immigrant families face unprecedented threats under the Trump administration’s inhumane and un-American executive orders.”
The multi-platform rollout — billboards, digital advertising, commercials and targeted social media messaging — the campaign specifically calls out Gimenez, Diaz-Balart, Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a former Florida House rep and U.S. Senator, for failing to represent the very communities that elected them.
They haven’t even raised their voices for Cuban mother Heidy Sanchez, who is in Havana today, having been separated from her U.S.-born husband and 1-year-old daughter in Tampa and deported.
Read related: Video blasts U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez for silence on ending TPS, deportations
“The Secretary of State and these Members of Congress are the children of immigrants and represent Miami-Dade County, but their cowardice and silence has created fear throughout the community and this initiative calls upon them to speak up and take action on behalf of their constituents whom they have thus far betrayed with their silence and inaction,” reads a statement from the organization.
Earlier this month, Keep Them Honest posted their first video, calling Gimenez a coward who has betrayed his community, not just for staying silent on the revocation of Temporary Protective Status and parole protections for over 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, but also on the defunding of Radio and TV Martí. They later followed up with a similar video targeting Diaz-Balart.
“Mario? Bro? Wake up,” it says.
They are now placing billboards — like the one that the  Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus has on the Palmetto Expressway between Doral and Hialeah — across every major highway in the county and web app in the districts that Diaz-Balart, Gimenez and Salazar represent.
“These ads spotlight the urgent need for these elected officials to speak up for human decency and take action for the people of South Florida,” the statement said.
Seven total billboards will be purchased on the Palmetto, the Don Shula Expressway, and the Florida Turnpike, said Chris Wills, the former co-founder of Cubanos Con Biden and vice president of  Keep Them Honest, Inc.
“No matter where you go in Miami-Dade County, whether you are one of these congress members or one of their constituents, you will see the message loud and clear,” Wills says. One of the digital ads says “Deporting good immigrants back to dictatorships is cruel.”
The photos chosen of the “Gang of Four,” as the Hispanic Caucus President Abel S. Delgado calls them, are not flattering.

Keep Them Honest is a 501(c)4 non-profit and does not have to disclose who is funding this campaign.
Read related: Cuban American congress members stay silent on TPS, immigrant detention
There are Trumpistas in South Florida who hysterically accuse the group of being funded by foreign enemies. “For all we know it’s Diaz-Canel people or the Chinese,” posted one of the crazy right-wing fans of Political Cortadito, referring to Cuban President (read: Dictator) Mario Diaz-Canel. She also said that Gimenez “doesn’t need to acknowledge provocateurs.”
This is what the Trumpistas think of anyone who disagrees with them. They are “provocateurs” that need not be acknowledged. Sound familiar? That’s exactly what Diaz-Canel says.
The most likely source of funding is some rich and outraged Cuban-American, like healthcare mogul, philanthropist and serial campaign contributor Mike Fernandez, who wrote an “open letter” to the Cuban-American politicos earlier this month calling their silence “complicity and cowardice.” Or someone like him.
“We don’t disclose our donors,” said Wills, a former Republican who is listed as the non-profit’s Vice President in the Florida Division of Corporation records. The president is Juan Carlos “JC” Planas, a former Republican state rep who later switched parties and ran for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections last year, losing to Alina Garcia.
“As a former Republican who helped elect Republicans and JC Planas being a former Republican legislator, it would be a hard press to tie us to any communist organization,” Wills said, adding that they are getting checks “from people who agree with us, which is growing more and more by the hour.”
It’s apparently enough, he said, to make an “unprecedented” media buy in a year with no state or national elections.
“We’ve never had, especially in a non-election year, this level of investment into ensuring that the voice of the community that needs to be heard is heard,” Wills is quoted as saying in Florida Politics.
Planas, who is tasked with the organization’s legal compliance, said that the non-profit operates much like conservative non-profit Citizens United and others who have the right, protected by the Supreme Court. They have a CPA. They report to the IRS. Their bank would issue a red flag for any foreign deposits or checks.
“How do we know Citizens United wasn’t funded by the Russians,” Planas asked. “Because there are checks and balances.”
Well, so far. But that’s something that is also being attacked by the Trump administration — as the Gang of Four stand by.
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Congresswoman Frederica Wilson took an hourlong tour Thursday of the Krome Detention Facility, where there have been reports of severe overcrowding, leading to unsanitary and dangerous conditions. But she certain she did not get to see the real thing.
“I am positive that they took people out today, so I wouldn’t see them,” Wilson said in an impromptu press conference outside the West Miami-Dade facility, which she said had been cleaned up for her visit. “It was like somebody went in there yesterday and put on a whole new coat of fresh paint. You could even smell the paint.
“That’s what they do.”
The other thing that caught her attention was a large tent. Not really a tent in the traditional sense. Wilson said it was a plexiglass structure that had been built in 14 days to house up to an additional 400 detainees. So, she knows the facility is more crowded than they let on, as indicated by video taken on cellphones inside and provided to NBC6. Otherwise, why build the outdoor housing?
“This is not my first rodeo,” Wilson said. “They take them on a field trip so you don’t see who is actually in there. But they did admit that they are actually building a tent city.
“Trust me, everybody is not home. Somebody was taken out of this prison today — in buses.”
Read related: Congresswoman Frederica Wilson will tour troubled Krome Detention Center
This is the first time Wilson has gone back to Krome — which has gotten some national attention because of the mass detentions and deportations under Donald Trump — in 43 years, when it was used to house female Haitian refugees. “This is an immigrant rich community. I represent Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians, Bahamians, Jamaicans. Everybody is in this facility,” she said.
This time, Wilson went to Krome after getting calls from concerned constituents, including a woman whose husband was detained after going to a scheduled immigration hearing about two weeks ago. Married to a U.S. citizen with a child here, the man was taken away and moved three times. Thursday, Wilson said, his family reported he was in a prison in Texas. Another immigrant, a university student from the Congo, has been “moved from detention center to detention center.”
She says the transfers are intentionally designed. “I think that she they find out you have a strong attorney and people interested in you, they consider it a threat. So they move you and they keep moving you until nobody can keep up with it,” Wilson said.
She also said the detainees are not at all the criminals they are being cast as and implied that there are mentally disabled detainees in the general population.
“I wanted to see all these criminals, with their faces tattooed and with gold teeth. I wanted to see who were these dangerous people that they had picked up off the street and put in a detention center. I didn’t see that,” she said. “I saw hard-working men. Some more literate than others. I even saw some who are mentally disturbed and have mental issues. I saw some who have physical issues, who are sick.
“I saw some who weren’t quite sure what was going on,” she said. “In fact, most of the people who are there are not criminals. They’re calling being undocumented a crime.” Wilson said she had access to detainees who spoke freely and most were just family men who worked and paid taxes.
She also wanted to find out if they were building a tent city. “I asked if they were going to build a tent city, to house the overflow. And the answer is yes.” The government has already built a two-story structure of plexiglass or other material “with big pipes of air conditioning coming in” and a TV room.
Read related: Cuban American congress members stay silent on TPS, immigrant detention
Wilson said that since the Riley Act was passed in January, “people are going to be picked up on the street every day and sent here.”
The Laken Riley Act is named for a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student who was killed while she was jogging at the University of Georgia by a 26-year-old Venezuelan man who had entered the country illegally. It requires the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to detain illegal immigrants admitting to, charged with, or convicted of theft-related crimes, assaulting a police officer, or a crime that results in death or serious bodily injury like drunk driving.
“I asked them, ‘Are you prepared to build or construct… more tents for people?’ And they said yes,” the congresswoman told a gathering of press outside the facility, which sits on and is named for Krome Avenue on the old edge of the Everglades.
“It’s going to get worse. Every time it gets overcrowded, they will build a new tent. Because it only takes 14 days. I was stunned.”
So is Ladra. If it’s that easy, why aren’t there temporary housing stations for the homeless? Oye, Ron Book? Are you paying attention?
Wilson said that she was concerned because there are no more ombudsmen to oversee the civil rights of immigrants in detention. “They were fired. Fired! So I’m going to serve a the overseer,” she said. “I’m going to come back as often as I can.” She is also going to encourage other members of Congress to visit. When she went to the immigration detention facility in Homestead years ago, when they were housing unaccompanied children, she took 10 members of Congress.
“I’m going to have to figure out a day I can come and not tell them I’m coming. And I have a right to be there.”
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Congresswoman Frederica Wilson will be the first member of Congress to get a tour of the Krome Detention Center in West Miami-Dade after reports of overcrowded, dangerous, unsanitary and inhumane conditions in the wake of the mass immigrant detentions and deportations by the new Donald Trump administration.
Wilson sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem earlier this month asking for access and a walk through. Her office announced Wednesday that she would get an hour inside on Thursday afternoon. She will be available for the press afterwards, around 2 p.m. So will representatives from Americans for Immigration Justice, which has joined the ACLU Florida on the federal lawsuit to challenge a Florida law that authorizes state and local authorities to jail people solely on immigration status, “powers the Constitution reserves exclusively to the federal government.”6
The congresswoman, who represents Florida’s 24th district — which includes Little Haiti, Biscayne Park, Miami Gardens, North Miami, Opa-Locka and the southern part of Broward County — has received letters and phone calls from constituents who have relatives in the detention center, said Alvaro Perpuly, Wilson’s press secretary. Or who were in the detention center. One such detainee has already been moved elsewhere, so Wilson won’t be able to check on him, Perpuly said.
Read related: Cuban American congress members stay silent on TPS, immigrant detention
“She’s trying to set up individual meetings, but it’s kind of hard to know who’s really there because they keep moving people around,” Perpuly told Political Cortadito.
The visit was not coordinated through Noem, but rather the detention center facility itself, Perpuly said. “By law, they cannot prevent a member of Congress from entering. They have more leeway with other electeds on the state and local level.”
That might be why Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has not received an answer to her own request on April 3 for a tour. A staffer said she had been invited by the congresswoman. “ICE informed her office that per their protocol, the mayor would need to schedule a separate time to tour the facility, which we hope to coordinate as swiftly as possible,” said Deputy Chief of Staff Rachel Johnson.
But what is stopping Congressman Carlos Gimenez, Mario Diaz-Balart or Maria Elvira Salazar from checking the place out themselves? The three Cuban-American legislators have come under fire for their silence in the face of the community’s fear and uncertainty. There have been billboards and video ads to blast them for their complicity.
Even a full page ad “open letter” from healthcare mogul and habitual campaign donor Mike Fernandez didn’t seem to move the dial.
Calls to Gimenez representatives at his district and Washington offices were not returned.
Detainees are seen sleeping on the floor next to each other or in chairs in a viral video that was taken, obviously under cover, by a Mexican detainee near tears and provided to NBC6 Miami. Some detainees have had to sleep outside. They have reportedly not been allowed to communicate with loved ones or legal representation regularly. Some family members of detainees say they are not given enough food or even water. In February, a Ukranian immigrant died at a nearby hospital after getting sick at Krome.
Read related: Video blasts U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez for silence on ending TPS, deportations
“The increase in detainees being sent to the Krome Processing Center has caused conditions to deteriorate, creating an unsafe and inhumane detention environment,” Levine Cava wrote in the letter to Noem. “Allegations of substandard conditions include inadequate access to water and food, unsanitary confinement, medical neglect and abuse such as prolonged shackling.”
Wilson, who will be going with members of her team, knows that she may not see those things.
“She’s very aware they’re going to clean up a bit and make it look nicer,” Perpuly said.
“She wants to see where the detainees are actually being held, talk to some of the folks there, see if there are any women there, and just generally see what’s going on.”
Stay tuned. Political Cortadito will follow up on Thursday.
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“¡Cobarde! ¡Mudo!”
Coward! Voiceless! These are the names the narrator calls Congressman Carlos Gimenez in a video released Thursday that shames the former Miami-Dade mayor for his silence and complicity on Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including the rollback of protected status for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, many of whom live in his community.
“Where is Carlos Gimenez hiding? Trump is stripping 500,000 cubanos, nicaraguenses y venezolanos of legal status, sending them back to hell,” the narrator says in the 30-second spot, which is viewable on YouTube.
“Nuestros compatriotas are stranded in tyranny and dictatorship and this monster is killing millions that fund charities and people that would have helped them,” the narrator says, in very cubanaso language, referring to the U.S. Agency for International Development. “He even blew up Radio and TV Marti.”
Read related: Downtown Miami protest planned Saturday vs Donald Trump policies
Ladra can’t help but wonder if Gimenez and the other Cuban-American legislators are proud that Trump was able to do something that Fidel Castro tried desperately for decades to do but could not — end Radio and TV Marti.
“And all this time Carlos Gimenez has stayed silent. Coward! Mute! Betraying us all,” the man in the video says.
Well, not entirely silent. Gimenez was on WPLG Local 10’s This Week in South Florida last month and admitted to Glenna Milberg that he was not “entirely sure” what Trump’s cuts mean for TV Marti and Radio Marti. While Democrat Congresswoman and non-Cuban Debbie Wasserman-Schultz blasted the end of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Gimenez seemed to stand by Trump’s decision, while still promising to do something — in the future.
“I think it has to be evaluated and each agency head is going to do that. The people may be placed on administrative leave for a while, but you can be certain the the three republican members from South Florida will be fighting to maintain effective broadcasting to Cuba,” Gimenez said on the popular Sunday morning show. “There may have been some doubts about the effectiveness of TV Martí and Radio Martí recently during the Biden administration. We want to make sure that if it is reconstituted and it continues, that it’s effective.”
What? So Biden is being criticized now for the way the OCB communicated during the last four years? Can you imagine what would happen if Biden or another Democrat had called for the end of Radio and TV Martí? Protests that paralyze the expressways and shouts of  “¡Communista!” on Cuban radio. That’s what would happen.
The video ends with a call to action and the display of the congressman’s district office phone number. “Call Carlos Gimenez and tell him to man up to Trump.”
That number, by the way, is 305-222-0160.
The ad is sponsored by Keep Them Honest, Inc., a group that has formed to call out these liars and hypocrites. There is no political action committee or information on the Florida Division of Corporations website. And their address in Kendall is of a shared workspace office. This is their first video.

Cubanos Con Biden co-founder Chris Wills, who also worked with former Key Biscayne Mayor Mike Davey in his congressional campaign last year, told Political Cortadito there would be more.
“As somebody who was born and raised in South Florida, the son of a Cuban exile mom and a Venezuelan exile dad, I’m hearing from my own family, my neighbors, my friends that not only is there an incredible amount of fear over this mass deportation and taking away of legal status from those who have fled dictatorships, but increasingly there is a lot more disappointment and feeling of betrayal from Carlos Gimenez,” Wills said.
He said Gimenez and his counterparts on the Miami-Dade delegation have the power, because they represent three Republican votes, to force the administration to change its position on temporary protected status, which was revoked last month for more than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
“If the three of them would unite and hold their votes, it would stop the Trump agenda in its tracks, until he resolves TPS,” Wills told Ladra.
Read related: Cuban American congress members stay silent on TPS, immigrant detention
Gimenez and Congress Members Mario Diaz-Balart and Maria Elvira Salazar, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a true hypocrite who has gone against everything he used to stand for, were also targets of a billboard off the Palmetto Expressway — right smack between Hialeah and Doral — paid for by the Miami-Dade Hispanic Democratic Caucus calling them traitors to the community and the American Dream.
While Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava demand tours of the Krome Detention Center, where there are reports of overcrowded chaos and unsafe and unsanitary conditions, these Cuban-American politicians — who pander to the Venezuelan and Colombian vote, also — have not. Emails to his spokesman, Roberto Lugones, have gone unanswered. Constituent Services Director Beatriz Viera, reached at the congressional district office Friday morning, said she did not know anything about a tour but assured Ladra that Gimenez was “working very closely with the administration.”
So, then, he’s not just silent. Gimenez is complicit.

Viera, who was only in the office to receive the submissions for a congressional art contest, downplayed any criticism, saying that there were many people who supported how Gimenez was handling the current administration.
“That sign is irrelevant,” she said about the billboard. “That’s the party that’s against him.”
Wills said that Gimenez an the others “have refused to actually take any meaningful action to help those immigrants and families who are living with monumental fear.” He added that business owners are also feeling the pinch as fewer people fill restaurants and retail stores, staying home instead to avoid the authorities. He’s also noticed an increase in police presence, even before Doral and Homestead became the latest cities in Miami-Dade to sign 287g agreements with the federal government to help the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department in the identification and detention of illegal immigrants (more on that later).
Read related: Maria Elvira Salazar takes credit for judge extending TPS for Venezuelans
“This is not the America that Carlos Gimenez, Maria Elvira Salazar, Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart were brought to or raised in, to believe that we all should be hopeful of achieving the American Dream,” Wills said. “We have an immigrant community that is living the American nightmare.”
Where is Carlos Gimenez hiding? Behind a bill he has proposed to create a federal task force to focus on security for the upcoming major intentional events coming to the U.S. over the next four years — including the FIFA World Cup, some of which will be played in South Florida, America’s 250th birthday celebrations next year, and the 2028 Olympics. He’s hiding behind a call to end travel and remittances to Cuban families on the island prison from Cuban families in the U.S. (mostly in Miami). He’s hiding behind a petition to the Department of Homeland Security to deport Cuban nationals he believes to be regime agents. While Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen visits the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador, to make sure that Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a man married to a U.S. citizen with U.S.-born children who the Trump administration admits was deported in error and ordered returned by a federal judge — hasn’t yet been killed, Gimenez is hiding in Guantanamo on a trip to check out the concentration camps where Trump had planned to send illegal immigrants.
He couldn’t help but take a selfie, ’cause he was in Cuba for the first time in 64 years.
Gimenez is just too busy to stand up for his community, right?
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It’s not just about immigration and national security. It’s not just about veteran’s rights and climate change. It’s not just about education and the raiding of treasury records and the tariff wars that are going to raise consumer prices and the manipulation of the stock market and the tanking the global economy for personal gain and the marginalization of the LGBTQ community.
It’s about all of it.
A protest planned for this Saturday in downtown Miami is described as being more like a “full-scale mobilization” against “the
billionaire takeover” and all things Trump/Musk. “Because this administration has betrayed us on all fronts,” an email flyer says. “They want us silent? We’re showing up with pots, pans, and purpose.”
Pots and pans! ¡Ya tu sabes!
Read related: Palmetto Xway billboard compares Donald Trump to Cuba’s Fidel Castro
The event is being promoted by the 50501 organization — which stands for “50 protests, 50 states one movement” — that also helped organize the national Hands Off! protests April 5 that saw hundreds of thousands of people show up in Washington, D.C, New York, Los Angeles, Utah and everywhere — with some very creative signs.
According to Newsweek, the group has posted on social media that the goal is to get 3.5 percent of the U.S. population — which would be more than 11 million individuals — to the different protests nationwide. This is apparently the threshold for “sustained resistance in order to make a difference,” the magazine article reported.
Among the speakers slated to be at the Miami event is United Teachers of Dade President Karla Hernandez-Mats, a onetime candidate for lieutenant governor, who will speak on behalf of teachers, parents and students. She said that it is important for people to know what it really means to lose the federal Department of Education for special needs and economically disadvantaged students. The real ramifications, she said, are shuttered programs and kids left out.
“It’s important that our people mobilize,” Hernandez-Mats told Political Cortadito. “It’s not going to slow down. It’s going to keep up ramping up.
“Countries that are successful against authoritarianism are countries that have under representation, but also big movements.”
She said the goal is to encourage congressional leaders to take action.
“These fascist, authoritarian attacks are unprecedented and we’re hoping Congress takes back its power.”

There will also be “action stations” to engage voters:

Indivisible Miami Action Team will help you start organizing in your own backyard—because change begins at the block level.
50501 Florida is setting up a mobile call center—with scripts and info ready—so we can flood our Congressman’s office with calls. Just show up, sit down, and dial in.
@Moms4Libros and @ehrforce will register voters, help them make vote-by-mail requests, and recruit poll watchers to “defend democracy at the ballot box.”

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