By Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald

MIAMI — A Miami Republican who co-founded the group Latinas for Trump is condemning President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign and blasting recent immigration enforcement actions as harmful.

“This is not what we voted for,” state Sen. Ileana Garcia said in a statement on Saturday . “I have always supported Trump, through thick and thin. However, this is unacceptable and inhumane.”

The public remarks from one of Trump’s long-time supporters come as the president’s immigration policies cause stress and uncertainty in South Florida. Trump’s executive orders and the Department of Homeland Security’s actions have targeted hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the region, including Cubans and Venezuelans — communities that threw their support behi

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