COMMISSIONER MARLEINE BASTIEN: Was sole dissenting vote on street renaming by the majority Democrat MiamiDade County Commission which includes African American officials Oliver Gilbert III, Keon Hardemon and Kionne McGhee. PHOTO COURTESY OF FLORIDA POLITICS

Miami – President-elect Donald Trump, who’s also a convicted felon, will have a street named for him in the city of Hialeah.

The Miami-Dade County Commission approved Hialeah’s initiative to rename Palm Avenue "President Donald Trump Avenue" to honor the former president due to return to power Jan. 20, 2025.

Hialeah is located on the western fringes of Miami-Dade where 94 percent of the residents are Hispanics, according to the 2020 U.S. Census.

Trump took 55 percent of the vote vs. Vice President Kamala Harris in MiamiDade, which President Joe Biden won in 2020 by 12 points. Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate to win the county since George W.H. Bush in 1988.

Seven Miami-Dade commissioners are registered Democrats and six are Republicans.

Commissioner Marleine Bastien, a Haitian-American, was the sole dissenting vote on the street renaming during their Dec. 3 meeting.

"I oppose item 3A11," Bastien said, referring to the resolution sponsored by Commissioners Kevin Marino Carbera and Juan Carlos Bermudez. "I vote no."

African American commissioners Oliver Gilbert III and Kionne McGhee voted in favor of the resolution, while Commissioner Keon Hardemon was late and didn’t vote.

All are Democrats.

During his presidential debate with Harris, Trump made false claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating their neighbors’ pets. He made bigoted comments about the Caribbean nation population.

He also has pledged to carry out the largest immigrant deportation in U.S. history once he’s back in the White House, and revoke the Biden administration’s Temporary Protection Status which could impact South Florida’s Haitian community.

Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo Jr., a vocal Trump supporter, spearheaded the initiative, citing Trump’s impact on the local economy and his popularity among Hialeah residents.

Supporters say that Trump remains a highly regarded figure in the predominantly Hispanic city, which also gave him overwhelming support in the 2020 presidential election.

Cabrera, one of Trump’s staunchest supporters, cited several reasons to honor the incoming president, such as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act during his first term in office, the U.S. Space Force launched in 2019, and the sanctions aimed at weakening Cuba’s communist regime and ending the rule of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by recognizing Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate leader.

Hialeah joins Doral, where a street was renamed "Donald Trump Boulevard" in 2021.

South Florida is a political hub and home base for Trump with his Mar-aLago resort in Palm Beach County and Trump National Golf Resort in Doral.