GOP lawmaker who posted anti-deportation ad says Trump was 'very

A House Republican running attack ads against the president's deportation policy is not the usual way to get a meeting. But Rep. María Elvira Salazar did something smarter. She took her disagreement straight to Trump, told him his advisers are compromising his legacy, and apparently left the call thinking he actually heard her. That takes nerve, and it also takes a relationship. She represents a district full of immigrants, some of whom voted for Trump. So when she speaks, it's worth listening.

This isn't a betrayal. It's a course correction. Salazar isn't defending open borders, she's asking whether mass deportation can be done without shattering families and wrecking South Florida's economy. Those are fair questions. Trump has always been a negotiator, not a zealot. When someone he respects gives him a real-world warning about how his policy is landing, he weighs it. That's a strength, not a weakness. The left will spin this as chaos, but a president who only talks to yes men is the one who fails.

The real story here is that the GOP has room for honest disagreement on tactics without abandoning the mission. Border security is still the priority. The congresswoman just wants a smarter version of it. We should be fine with that. Let them work it out in the open, where the public can see that Trump listens to his own side before acting. That's how good policy gets made. And it beats the alternative, which is pretending every Republican has to think the same way or stay silent.