Mario Diaz-Balart loves to tell his constituents he stands with victims of brutal foreign dictatorships. When the Trump administration stripped protections from over 250,000 Venezuelans, he wrote letters claiming he would always fight for them and promised Miami-Dade a permanent solution — and that fix never arrived. Then he cast the deciding vote to give ICE tens of billions of dollars to deport the very people he swore to protect.
Read the full story: Mario Diaz-Balart Wrote Letters Defending Venezuelans in His District. Then He Voted to Give ICE $38 Billion.
