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GOP Rep. Salazar defends her Miami seat as immigration strains her voter coalition

M IAMI — For nearly an hour, dozens of the local Republican Party’s most loyal Colombian voters bided their time, piled into a conference room in a small hotel right off the airport near Miami Springs, surrounded by tables full of empanadas, tequeños and small Colombian flags. The event’s emcee, Weston City Commissioner Fabio Andrade, in town for the event, hyped up the crowd and warned of a “Machiavellian plan” by Democratic socialists to take over the U.S. He moved about the room, turning the