In a rare display of intraparty dissent, a House Republican from Florida, María Elvira Salazar, released a television advertisement today directly assaulting President Trump’s aggressive crackdown on immigrants. “Mr. President,” Salazar said, “some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far.” Salazar’s district had not been considered particularly competitive, but her comments reflected the eroding support for Trump and other Republicans among Hispanics. A recent Times poll found that Hispanic voters favored Democrats by 43 points, an enormous shift since 2024, when the difference in support was in the single digits.

More broadly, the unfavorable political environment for Republicans has forced the party to put up costly defenses in seemingly safe races. In Nebraska, a Republican super PAC sprang up to defend a billionaire incumbent. In Kansas, Vice President JD Vance campaigned for a Senate Republican, even though a Democrat has not been elected to the chamber there since 1932. And in Georgia, Republican strategists wonder if it’s too late to save their Senate nominee.

In other immigration news: The Houthis advance on oil-rich regions. Fighting has intensified near two strategic provinces in Yemen, in what appears to be an effort by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia to push into resource-rich eastern regions. Analysts said that sustained fighting in the region could threaten the economic lifeline of Yemen’s internationally recognized government.

In other news from the Middle East: U.N. investigators said today that two U.S. airstrikes on Iran in February, in which at least 178 civilians died, may have amounted to war crimes.