U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has highlighted the gang-fueled violence plaguing Haiti, and condemned efforts to expel Haitian refugees living in the U.S.

She called attention to the purging of exhibits of the National Museum of African American History months before President Donald Trump’s recent campaign against the museum, and to a sheriff’s deputy killing a Black airman in Okaloosa County, far from her district.

And the congresswoman has delivered funding for cities such as Lauderdale Lakes and Riviera Beach, where most of the residents are Black and many are low-income.

Cherfilus-McCormick, the first Haitian American Democrat elected to Congress, is in a position to command attention and effect change because Florida’s 20th Congressional District was crafted with boundaries

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