Cuban American multimillion -American businessman Mike Fernández on Wednesday urged Cuban American republican leaders from Miami to face Trump’s bloody migratory policy and put aside the silence in which they have been plunged during these three months of mandate.
In a letter released by The new heraldFernández summoned the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, already politicians Mario Díaz-Balart, María Elvira Salazar and Carlos Giménezto raise the voice against the migratory offensive of the Trump administration, to which they belong.
“If you cannot find your voice at this time or distinguish between one dictator and another, it may be time to give way to others that can and have a vision that they may miss,” said the health businessman in the open letter to the four Republicans of Florida.
According to The new heraldthis Monday Fernández had sent the letter individually to each of them. The newspaper made it public this Wednesday.
In the document, Fernández referred to the “Cruel posture” of the Trump administration towards immigrants and accused the four politicians of betraying with their silence the communities they represent.
The businessman, president of MBF Healthcare Partnerssaid that today exists in the country “A threat before unthinkable: the president in exercise of the United States.”
The silence of Cuban American politicians
Although he has supported Rubio and Salazar, Oa Jeb Bush, now Fernández has condemned the silence of Republican leaders, who are sons and daughters of Cuban exiles.
“That silence is not neutrality or ignorance, it is complicity and cowardice … His silence has caused fear and real damage to many in our community, in their districts.”
According to the businessman’s letter, former financial co -director of the re -election campaign of the Governor of Florida, Republican Rick Scott in 2014, Look for more people to join their request and raise the voice.
They install in Miami a fence against Cuban American politicians: “It’s just the beginning”
In statements a The new heraldThe businessman highlighted his willingness to invest his money in this purpose.
Mike Fernández had paid two ads to full page in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journalin which Criticized Trump’s anti -immigrant policy And Republican senators were urged to reverse the situation, he said The Herald.
In that sense, the former republican, who is now independent, said that Elected Cuban -American leaders were afraid to disagree with Trump because the president could turn against him.
“They have turned their backs on their community”
“Our four representatives are simply kneeling before the presidency because they fear for themselves and for their work,” he said in statements to The new herald And he added that “They will be remembered for having turned your back on your community.”
Fernández added that it is time to find “someone who fights for the right thing, for US values, for this community,” said the newspaper.
“I am ashamed how our own immigrants of immigrants have turned their backs on this community,” he told the Herald and added that “the actions are very evident.”
According to the newspaper, “the aggressive campaign against Trump’s migration could generate a division in southern Florida, home of some of the most affected communities so far by new policies.”
In that sense, Miami-Dade Democratic Caucus echoed Fernández’s pronouncement and pointed out that the businessman also called “Traitors” to Salazar, Rubio, Giménez and Díaz-Balart for not protecting migrants.
“No one believes his lies about ‘trying to protect’ our communities,” the Democratic Organization wrote in X (Twitter) that at the beginning of April placed a fence in Miami in which he called “traitors” to these four Cuban -American politicians.
While this happens, the Cuban American congressman Carlos Giménez continues to call to freeze remittances and flights to Cuba to further suffocate the economy of Cuban familiesand continues to identify Cubans residing in the United States with links with the PCC to expel them from the country.
We street out Salazar, Rubio, Giménez, and Díaz-Balart “Traitors” on Our Billboard for Not Protecting Immigrants.
Now, Cuban American Businessman and Political Donor Mike Fernandez Is Doing the Same.
No one is Buying into their lies about “Trying to Protect” Our Communities. pic.twitter.com/nkdi6CPM06
-Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus (@DHCFMIAMI) April 16, 2025
Salazar’s response
Before Fernández’s letter, Senator María Elvira Salazar said that only she has defended in Congress “who do not have roles or criminal record, but do the work that other Americans do not want to do.”
“During all my time in Congress, I have worked with both parties to fight for my dignity law, the only bipartisan law of immigration reform in Congress that offers real solutions to our immigration crisis,” he said.
Salazar has pointed out on other occasions that “Cubans cannot be returned.” However, just Monday, He celebrated the arrest of Cubans living in the United States and allegedly affiliation with the Communist Party of Cuba: “Whoever has served a dictatorship has no place in the land of freedom,” he wrote in his account in X.
Although it is pronounced as a defender of migrants, according to The new herald, Salazar has not faced the Trump administration on this subject and instead blame Biden from the current immigration crisis in the country.
Trump and the maximum pressure against migrants
From his second arrival at the White House, the president Donald Trump He has assumed a hostile policy against migrants living and working in the United States.
In March, for example, the government revoked the legal status of more than 530 thousand Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Haitians who entered the United States by the Humanitarian parole created by Joe Biden.
The Trump administration ordered them to call themselves before April 24 or the authorities would go in their search.
However, recently a Federal Judge arrested this measure that would affect more than half a million people who benefited from this plan.
In statements to HeraldFernández said that the United States It was currently a country where foreign students were deported for their political opinions.
Although Mike Fernández He sent the letter this week, neither the State Department nor Díaz-Balart nor Giménez have responded for the moment.
Who is Mike Fernández?Born in 1952 in Manzanillo, Mike Fernández left Cuba with his family in 1964 and went to Mexico, where he lived six months until he reached New York. As he refers Columbia Law SchollFernández has become a founder or 25 shareholder Health -related companies. At the moment He serves as president of MBF Healthcare Partnersa private firm based in Coral Gables, Florida. Under its direction, the firm focuses on investing in health services nationwide. According to MBF Healthcare PartnersFernández is currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Miami and has been recognized on numerous occasions with community and business awards. |
