Miami declares Trump persona non grata over his remarks

Miami has always been an important market for Donald Trump, but he’s now finding himself a local punching bag over inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants.

It began when Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos condemned Trump for accusing Mexico of sending “rapists” and other undesirables north over the border to the United States during Trump’s June16 announcement of his presidential bid. “I challenge @realDonaldTrump to go a single day without Mexican employees,” Ramos posted on his Twitter account June 23, adding in an essay that Trump had become “the Hispanic community’s most hated man.”

The next day, Univision itself — which broadcasts nationally its top-rated Spanish-language programming from Miami — broke ties with Trump by refusing to air his Miss Universe beauty pageant.

Miami’s mayor declared Trump persona non grata in the city, Miami-Dade’s mayor returned a $15,000 campaign contribution from the mogul, and Wednesday the Miami-Dade County Commis- sion passed a resolution to condemn Trump’s recent remarks.

“I thought it was important for us as a body to condemn his racist and derogatory remarks about immigrants,” sponsor Barbara Jordan said. Jose “Pepe” Diaz, the commissioner who represents the district where Trump’s Doral resort is located, signed on as a cosponsor.

The unanimous adoption of a symbolic resolution at the tail end of a 16-hour commission meeting hardly registered amid the national backlash against Trump. Following Univision’s break with Trump, NBCUniversal also announced it wouldn’t participate in Miss Universe or its feeder pageant, Miss USA. (Trump starred in NBC’s “The Apprentice” reality