GOP infighting erupts over immigration bill that would shield millions from deportation

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House Republicans are sharply divided over a bipartisan immigration reform bill, with one GOP lawmaker calling on President Donald Trump to intervene. For months, GOP lawmakers have fiercely debated the Dignity Act, whose Republican sponsor, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, is pushing for the immigration proposal to be marked up in committee and receive a vote on the floor. The Miami Republican has quickly run into opposition from a swath of conservatives in the GOP conference who have ripped the proposal as "mass amnesty" and a wholesale rejection of the president’s immigration enforcement agenda. "The DIGNIDAD Act … is a betrayal of the values that we ran on last election cycle," Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital in an interview, referring to the bill’s original Spanish name. "We ran on mass deportations. We said we're going to do that, so we should." LATINO VOTERS ARE 'NO LONGER SLEEPING,' UNIVISION PRESIDENT WARNS GOP, DEMS But Salazar, whose Latino-heavy district Trump narrowly won in 2024, is offering a starkly different approach. "Now that the border is secured … what are we going to do with those people who do not have a criminal record and have contributed to the economy," Salazar said at a press conference Wednesday. "The economy still needs them." The immigration standoff highlights the fissures in the coalition that elected a Republican trifecta in 2024. The Miami Republican is one of Democrats’ top targets in November's midterm elections . Salazar, who first introduced the legislation several years ago, said she has been in conversation with the White House but did not specify whether she had talked directly with Trump. "It's up to him, as an elected official, to determine when is the right timing," Salazar said of Trump. "When does he want to do this within his presidency?" "No other president has the political guts to do this, Republicans or Democrats, in the last 40 years." When reached for comment, a White House official told Fox News Dig…