Doral Mayor Fraga touts low crime rate, acknowledges immigration, financial anxieties in State of the City address

Mayor Christi Fraga highlighted promising signs while acknowledging growing immigration and financial anxieties gripping the community during Doral s annual State of the City address. It is truly an honor to welcome you here, Fraga opened during her address at Doral City Hall. The mayor pointed to what she called strides in the community over the course of the last four years. Overall crime has dropped by 60%, said Fraga. From policing efforts to sending assistance to disaster-stricken countries through organizations like Global Empowerment Mission, Fraga talked up some of the major accomplishments that officials and residents have had a strong hand in. Our community did what it does best, it showed up and it showed up big, said Fraga. Her Thursday evening address did not go without alluding to some things that have weighed on the mind of a city that s home to the largest Venezuelan population in the U.S. Many of our neighbors are hurting right now, said Fr