堪萨斯州西南部移民执法突查后社区追问市政交代:9 月底 104 人被拘,路透社 11 月 13 日报道三县选票大幅转向

路透社 11 月 13 日报道,堪萨斯州西南部社区组织者近日在道奇城委员会会议上连续追问市政成员,要求说明联邦移民执法突查前市方知道什么、为何该地区被列为目标,以及再发生时市方如何回应。
报道称,联邦移民与海关执法局人员 9 月底进入这一以肉类加工厂为主的地区,当地联邦检察官口径为 104 人被拘,道奇城、花园城与利伯勒尔的西语裔社区受影响最大。
道奇城现为西语裔占多数的城市,美国人口普查口径为 67%,突查后经济活动受到扰动,当地官员称他们事先未获知会。
报道称,11 月 3 日选举中,亚当·汉密尔顿击败现任共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔,堪萨斯州近一个世纪以来首次选出民主党联邦参议员,他将于明年 1 月就职,受突查影响最大的三县平均向汉密尔顿移动超过 20 个百分点。
国土安全部在给路透社的声明中称其执法有既定口径,白宫发言人劳伦·比斯称总统的移民议程带来有记录以来最安全的边境。
报道还称,当地非营利机构 New Frontiers 向受影响家庭送出数百份餐食,社区会议上的追问仍在继续。
Southwest Kansas Community Seeks Answers After ICE Raids Detained 104 People, Reuters Reports November 13 on a Sharp Electoral Swing
Community organizers in southwest Kansas addressed members of the Dodge City commission in a starkly lit meeting room, asking what city officials had known before federal immigration raids, why the area was targeted and how the city would respond if it happened again, Reuters reported on November 13.
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept into the meatpacking region in late September and detained 104 people, according to the local US Attorney, with Hispanic communities in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal hardest hit.
Dodge City is now 67 percent Hispanic, according to the US Census, the raids disrupted economic activity, and local officials complained they had been kept in the dark.
On November 3, Adam Hamilton ousted incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall, becoming the first Democratic senator elected in Kansas in nearly a century and taking office in January, while the three counties most affected by the raids swung toward Hamilton by more than 20 points on average from the 2024 presidential vote share, in results compiled by Reuters and USA Today.
The Department of Homeland Security gave Reuters a statement on its enforcement, and White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said the president's immigration agenda had delivered the most secure border in history.
A local nonprofit, New Frontiers, delivered hundreds of meals to affected families, Reuters reported, as questions at community meetings continued.
来源:路透社
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图片来源:图:图中是堪萨斯州道奇城一头长角牛的雕像景观,资料图。Gerald B. Keane,Public domain,经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: file photo related to this report. Gerald B. Keane,Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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