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U.S. Rep. Carlos Gim茅nez says the Trump administration and Congress should find 鈥渕iddle ground鈥� on enforcing immigration laws to go after immigrants convicted of crime and those who are 鈥減roductive members of our society.鈥�

In an interview Saturday on CNN, the South Florida Republican member of Congress said he has directly relayed his concerns about President Donald Trump鈥檚 deportation enforcement strategy with Administration officials.

U.S. immigration policy, he said, has swung like a pendulum between the previous Biden administration and the current Trump administration.

鈥淲ith the Biden administration, you had a wide open border causing really chaos in this country 鈥� so you had a pendulum go all the way over here,鈥� he said.

鈥淲hen you release that pendulum, it goes all the way over here 鈥� and I think we need to get back to the middle, so that we continue to deport those that are criminals, that are gang members, that have deportation orders,鈥� Gim茅nez said.

He said there are many immigrants with 鈥減rotective鈥� status, meaning they are here legally under humanitarian parole or Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

鈥淭hey actually had a legal status here, were working, and actually were productive members of our society,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e need to find a solution for that 鈥� and we need to make sure that they can continue to work.鈥�

SA国际传谋 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela were allowed to enter the U.S. under the humanitarian parole program created by the . They arrived with financial sponsors and were given two-year permits to live and work in the U.S.

TPS has allowed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans to live and work in the U.S. Trump is trying to revoke permits for about 1 million TPS holder from Haiti and Venezuela.

Immigrant advocates are fighting the Administration in federal court to continue humanitarian parole and TPS.

Gim茅nez said he has told Administration officials with his views about not targeting immigrants with temporary legal status and not convicted criminals.

鈥淚've relayed my concerns to the administration and I'll continue to relay my concerns to the administration,鈥� Gim茅nez said. 鈥淲e need to find the middle ground, because, again, I think that's the right thing to do."

Gim茅nez said he applauded Trump鈥檚 Truth Social post on Thursday when he said federal immigration enforcement agents should not pursue undocumented immigrants in certain industries.

Wrote Trump: 鈥淥ur great farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. That is not good鈥�Changes are coming!鈥�

Gim茅nez told CNN that he believes the list of workers and industries should be expanded.

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鈥淗e has other people in his ear on the other side,鈥� said Gim茅nez referring to immigration hardliners in the administration who want to boost deportations 鈥淭hey're a little bit more extreme than I am, actually a lot more extreme than I am in the case of immigrants here working in our country.鈥�

鈥淚mmigrants come in all shapes and sizes and they do all kinds of different things,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e need to find what makes sense for the United States of America and then put a good policy in place to make that happen.鈥�

Added Gim茅nez: 鈥淲e're going to continue to have dialog.鈥�

Another Miami Republican member of Congress hinted Friday at immigration policy changes forthcoming by the Trump administration.

U.S. Rep. Mar铆a Elvira Salazar, R-Miami, who said she, too, spoke with Administration officials, said she and a Democratic congresswoman from Texas will be teaming up to introduce 鈥渁 revolutionary piece of legislation that will offer real solutions to fix our immigration system and finally bring order to chaos for good.鈥�

Salazar and Gim茅nez are both Cuban-Americans with large numbers of constituents from Latin America and the Caribbean.

In her post on X, Salazar said she is working on the bipartisan legislation with U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat representing El Paso, Texas.

Salazar has been critical of Trump鈥檚 aggressive deportation policy, saying 鈥渓ong-time workers, many of whom have built their lives in this country, are being taken away,鈥� noting the construction, hotel and agriculture industries.

鈥淚t鈥檚 time for Congress to Act and bring a solution,鈥� she said in promising a bill in Congress to repair the nation鈥檚 broken immigration system.

鈥淪tay tuned. Help is on the way,鈥� she said without offering any additional details.