Florida Politics

"The United States will not sit idly by while the Cuban regime continues to support the Maduro’s crime family."

"I’m somewhat troubled that he’s squandering time and energy during sensitive and serious negotiations."

"What this will do is whip into a frenzy South Florida’s Hispanic community on both sides of the aisle."

Cheaper drugs from Canada, eh?

It goes without saying that congressional Democrats have flipped their political lids over the declaration, but some of Trump’s biggest legislative cheerleaders have also called his move into question.

"They are turning the page on dictatorship, and there is no going back.”

"The United States must make clear we stand with the Colombian people."

Pornography is a multi-billion dollar a year business in the U.S. that is viewed by millions of Americans of all ages, including minors.

“I think her allegations need to be looked into.”

"Whatever it takes to secure our border, he ought to be doing it.”

Let's get this right," said DeSantis.  We want high quality (education), we want to demand excellence, but we want to do that (reform) in a way that's responsive to the concerns we've had over the years."

"The Maduro regime has lost all legitimacy and support from the Venezuelan people."

This week marked a major moment in President Donald Trump’s first term in office as he asserted that the issues concerning the border constitute a crisis. After taking to national airwaves to share his thoughts on why strengthening border security is important, Democrats held their own response, positioning Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to give […]

“We need to make sure we fully fund FEMA. We need to make sure that our Government is not wasting your tax dollars,” Scott said, adding ,”we need to take care of the DACA kids.”

Newly inaugurated Governor Ron DeSantis has begun his overhaul of the Florida Supreme Court with the selection of Judge Barbara Lagoa, who becomes the high court's first female Cuban-American justice.  DeSantis will soon replace two more Supreme Court justices (three in total) who have each hit the mandatory retirement age of 70- Judges Barbara Pariente, Fred Lewis, and Peggy Quince.

With Democrats controlling the House and Republicans controlling the Senate, it seems that there's an ideological battle as Democratic socialism and conservatism clash in the political arena. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, largely recognized as bringing Democratic socialism to the forefront of the mainstream, is now responding to legislation introduced by Florida Senator Marco Rubio. In […]

The Groveland Four were wrongly accused of raping a while woman in 1949, and the race is on to speed up the process to pardon them. At the forefront of this concern are Florida Republican lawmakers. While the Florida legislature had asked for the men to be pardoned, a move has not been made for […]

"I look forward to its passage in the House and signing by the President.”

“This important legislation would empower the United States."

"Both Huawei, ZTE and multiple other Chinese companies pose a threat to our national interests."

"I can't tell you whether I support him or not until I've been able to review all of that."

"We must continue to work with our partners to condemn the Assad regime’s horrific abuses."

"I am proud to support these victims of the regime in their quest for justice and fair compensation for their service.”

 It is clear that the field of Republican presidential candidates is split on how to deal with the ongoing and growing illegal immigration problem. Trump wants to deport all of the illegal immigrants in the U.S., while Carson says deporting all illegals is "impractical" and would rather see them all receive guest-worker status. While Rubio […]

Jose Amaya Guardado's mother said she brought her son to the United States nine years ago to escape the violence rampant in their native El Salvador. But now his family is mourning his death in what police describe as a brutal machete attack. "I brought my son from there because they were killing people," Lucia […]

Jeb Bush is defending the use of the term "Anchor babies," as opponents, namely Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), anti-pro illegal immigration groups continue to call the term as offensive. Bush is right. The term "Anchor babies" has been used since the late 1980's  by both Republicans and Democrats alike, and later used in 1996. […]

Donald Trump took some time off the presidential campaign trail to talk to me about what else, Politics. In a phone interview with "The Donald," Trump said that he thinks Jeb Bush feels "entitled" to the Republican presidential nomination, and because he continues to best Bush in all of the national presidential polls, that is […]

Donald Trump's recent immigration position of scrubbing the birthright citizenship amendment to the U.S. Constitution has pressed Senator Marco Rubio to respond to his fellow Republican presidential candidate. “I am open to doing things that prevent people who deliberately come to the U.S. for purposes of taking advantage of the 14th amendment but I’m not […]

  Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump has just outlined his new Immigration policy, taking a hardline position on an existing U.S. immigration law, addressing how  he will make Mexico pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, as well as taking a jab at fellow GOP presidential candidate, Marco Rubio. Trump's immigration position (below) starts […]

Spanish-language TV Network Univision seems bothered about the first Republican presidential debate because according to them, comprehensive immigration reform was not addressed by the 17 candidates that participated in the two debates on Fox News. In reality, all of the candidates that were asked about immigration, answered the questions by stating what they would do […]

Miami, FL-Hillary Clinton announced that she supported lifting the U.S. embargo against Cuba, and said that she would ask Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the rest of the Congress, to lift the decades-long embargo. But while Clinton outline the reasons why the "failed" embargo needed to be lifted, Clinton also […]

The race to become the next President of the United States is on, and both Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are courting minority communities for their support and eventual vote in the 2016 presidential primary elections. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will be the first presidential candidate from either party to campaign on the island […]

Jeb Bush broke out the Spanish again. This time during an interview with MSNBC. In the interview Bush said: “I was hurt hearing somebody speaking in such a vulgar fashion. This makes solving this problem much more difficult. When we have politicians like that we cannot progress. In a political sense it was bad, and […]

The island of Puerto Rico, which is a commonwealth of the United States, has slowly plunged into an seemingly insurmountable $72 billion debt load and spike in unemployment, that is causing a mass exodus of native Puerto Ricans from the island to the mainland U.S. Aside from tourism, Puerto Rico doesn't offer much in terms […]

The 2016 election may very well be the one election that changes the face of Florida politics. How so? Well, considering that the island of Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth, is enduring unprecedented unemployment and a staggering $72 billion in debt, more and more islanders are moving to Florida, mainly to central Florida. Aside from […]

Texas junior senator and 2016 presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has introduced a bill in the Senate to rename the street that the Cuban embassy currently sits on, which is 16th st. NW to Oswaldo Paya st. Mr. Paya was a very famous Cuban dissident who dies in a mysterious car crash in 2012. In a […]