Keep Them Honest Calls Out Miami Reps Over Alligator Alcatraz

Nonprofit Keep Them Honest is calling Republican Congressmen Mario Díaz-Balart and Carlos A. Giménez hypocrites over their support for Alligator Alcatraz through a pair of billboards on Interstate 95 in South Florida, according to the group.

Since April 2025, Keep Them Honest has put up 14 billboards in Miami-Dade County and expects the two new ones to achieve about 4.5 million impressions a month, spokesman Chris Wills said in a statement. The electronic signs can be seen on I-95 near Dolphin Expressway.

One sign affixes the word "hypocrite" over Díaz-Balart's and Giménez's foreheads while indicating that Alligator Alcatraz is 51 miles away. "Supported by sons of immigrants," it reads. A second sign calls out Díaz-Balart, Giménez, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. "In a community of immigrants," it reads, "where are the voices to protect us?" Over their mouths, the word “Trump” is plastered — a visual gag meant to suggest their silence. Díaz-Balart and Rubio are sons of Cuban immigrants, while Giménez was born in Cuba.

The 501(c)(4) nonprofit, which "exists to make sure your representatives hear your voice and stand up to Trump," according to its website, put up a billboard along the Dolphin Expressway in May calling Trump a "wannabe dictator." The group is ramping up pressure on Díaz-Balart and Giménez, urging them to take responsibility for what it calls the “subhuman” treatment of immigrants at Alligator Alcatraz, according to a press release. "Someone should ask Congressman Díaz-Balart and Congressman Giménez how they, as sons of immigrants to the United States themselves, can possibly support these inhumane Republican-created immigration detention camps," Wills said in a statement. "It’s political hypocrisy at its worst. Even more importantly, the record shows that these Republican Members of Congress, whose districts cover the Everglades, are complicitly silent and have done absolutely nothing to stop the human rights abuses taking place at Alligator Alcatraz.

"As the son of parents who are exiles from the communist dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela, I’m personally ashamed of the Republican Members of Congress who are supposed to be representing the immigrants who built Miami-Dade County, and I commit that we will not stop reminding everyone in our community, of how Republican politicians who know better have nonetheless betrayed us all."

The congressmen didn't return New Times' requests for comment by the time of publication.

Keep Them Honest targeted Díaz-Balart earlier this month with another billboard near Hialeah on Palmetto Expressway, saying he betrayed Miami-Dade residents, according to CBS News.

In response, Díaz-Balart told CBS, "When you have groups from the left tied to the Democratic Party doing billboards against a Republican, it should be no surprise."

"I think it is a little ironic that it's basically a campaign poster (getting) coverage without saying who paid for it," he told CBS.