Every few years in Miami-Dade, the same argument shows up again. A developer walks into County Hall. The Urban Development Boundary gets mentioned. And suddenly people are talking past each other instead of actually talking. That’s where we are again with the former Calusa Golf Course in West Kendall. This property served the community for decades as a golf course — and it has now been sitting vacant for years, right in the middle of a fully built-out neighborhood. It isn’t Everglades. It isn’t open farmland. It’s surrounded by homes, schools, and roads.

What a difference it makes to have a president who takes an America First agenda in the Western Hemisphere seriously, and whose actions finally match his words. For decades, U.S. presidents talked about Latin America while allowing chaos, corruption, and hostile regimes to metastasize in our own backyard. That era is ending quickly under President Donald Trump.