A trio of Miami-area Republicans are pushing back against the administration as President Trump works to end programs protecting many of the region's immigrant communities from deportation.

In a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week, Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) asked for “nuance” in plans for a wholesale rescission of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), something the administration has axed for both Venezuela and Haiti.

It’s a small but notable pushback from within the GOP to Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

“Obviously I understand what the president is doing and the administration is doing,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) told The Hill.

“But logic would tell you that you probably have a better chance to have legitimate asylum claims if you're coming from places like Cuba, Venezuela.”

It’s not just TPS that threatens to have major impacts in South Florida. The Trump administration has also revoked a parole program established under President Biden that allowed citizens of Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela to apply for work permits so long as they could secure a U.S.-based financial sponsor.

Immigrants from all four countries had a longstanding presence in Miami communities well in advance of the Biden administration, but the moves by Trump threaten to jeopardize the status of many who have become established in the area.

Thus far it's been almost entirely Democrats and immigration advocacy groups that have challenged Trump’s actions to topple the programs.

Democrats have blasted the moves as an attack on those who have legal status in the United States, while various immigration groups have sued — and won — in court.........

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