Name: 我們去了一個被 ICE 突襲清空的得克薩斯小鎮 (We Went to a Texas Town Emptied by ICE Raids)
Uploaded: 2025-09-14T00:16:21.000Z
Duration: 4 min 9 s

On a Friday night, it's usually when, you know, you have a lot of people out here.

週五晚上，通常會有很多人在這裡。

You see, those trucks right there, some people say they're ICE.

你看，那些卡車就在那裡，有人說它們是 ICE。

Small businesses across the country have become the sites of ICE raids.

全國各地的小企業都成了移民及海關執法局突襲的目標。

Federal agents in unmarked vehicles in masks, seizing boxes of items.

聯邦特工戴著面具，乘坐沒有標誌的車輛，扣押了一箱箱物品。

Pulled in, as a matter of fact, in a restaurant down the street, and they just raided the place.

事實上，是在街邊的一家餐館裡，他們搜查了那裡。

It's people who, you know, have worked there for years.

他們都是在那裡工作多年的人。

Nowhere is that tension more apparent than in McAllen, Texas.

這種緊張關係在得克薩斯州麥卡倫最為明顯。

To be real, we're in the state of crisis.

實事求是地說，我們正處於危機之中。

I literally felt like the population was gone.

In 2024, McAllen reported record-breaking sales tax earnings due to their economic relationship with neighboring Mexico.

2024 年，由於與鄰國墨西哥的經濟關係，麥卡倫的銷售稅收入創下歷史新高。

A 12% increase from 2023, with almost $100 million in additional sales tax revenue, showed that the border economy was booming.

與 2023 年相比增長了 12%，增加了近 1 億美元的銷售稅收入，這表明邊境經濟正在蓬勃發展。

We've got to get the bad people out of here first, and we're doing that.

我們必須先把壞人趕出去，我們正在這麼做。

我們正在成千上萬地消滅他們。

We went to McAllen, Texas, with Senator Bernie Sanders to hear from the neighbors of some of the detained workers.

我們與參議員伯尼-桑德斯一起前往得克薩斯州麥卡倫，聽取了一些被拘留工人的鄰居的意見。

McAllen has a population that is a heavy immigrant population.

People who are documented and undocumented.

我們就在德克薩斯州的邊界上。

We're only about five miles away from the Texas border.

我們離德克薩斯州邊界只有五英里遠。

It's our construction workers, our field workers, our service industry workers, our yard men.

這是我們的建築工人、現場工人、服務業工人和堆場工人。

There's a lot of us here, but there are thousands of our friends and family members that wouldn't even drive here because they're afraid to drive in the streets at night.

我們有很多人在這裡，但我們有成千上萬的朋友和家人甚至不會在這裡開車，因為他們害怕晚上在街上開車。

I literally felt like it was a ghost town.

我真的覺得這裡就像一座鬼城。

We went in, and there's just literally no one shopping.

我們進去一看，根本沒有人在購物。

And the shopping in downtown McAllen is part of the livelihood of McAllen.

麥卡倫市中心的購物是麥卡倫生計的一部分。

Domestic workers, people that work in restaurants, they're not showing up to work.

家政工人、在餐館工作的人，他們都沒有來上班。

You know, here in South Texas, we enjoy our panduza, sweet bread.

要知道，在南德克薩斯州，我們很喜歡吃甜麵包（panduza）。

And one of my favorite places, it's all Spanish-speaking people.

還有一個我最喜歡的地方，那裡都是講西班牙語的人。

Six, seven Spanish speakers, all of them.

There were only three workers, and they only spoke English.

只有三名工人，他們只會說英語。

The budget lab at Yale University estimates that between $20 and $25 billion in annual federal and state taxes will be lost due to the loss of workers, closure of businesses, and reduced spending habits across the country.

據耶魯大學預算實驗室估計，由於全國各地工人失業、企業倒閉和消費習慣下降，每年將損失 200 億至 250 億美元的聯邦和州稅收。

In response to Trump's declaration, ICE stated that their quota of 3,000 arrests per day could not be reached without raiding businesses that have been briefly exempted, like restaurants, hotels, and farms.

針對特朗普的聲明，移民及海關執法局表示，如果不突擊檢查餐館、酒店和農場等被短暫豁免的企業，就無法達到每天逮捕 3000 人的配額。

We have fought very hard right now, and we have filed lawsuits to prevent the administration and ICE from detaining people just because of the work that they're doing, the language that they speak, the color of their skin.

我們現在已經進行了非常艱苦的鬥爭，我們已經提起訴訟，以防止政府和移民及海關執法局僅僅因為人們所做的工作、他們所說的語言、他們的膚色而拘留他們。

They're picking up anybody, anyone who looks a certain way.

他們隨便找一個人，只要長得像就行。

The rhetoric they will use is, we're throwing out these violent criminals.

他們的說辭是，我們要把這些暴力罪犯趕出去。

But when you go after people who have lived in this country for a long time, worked hard, paid taxes, live by the rules, that is not working so well for Trump.

但是，當你對那些長期生活在這個國家、努力工作、納稅、循規蹈矩的人下手時，這對特朗普來說就不那麼奏效了。

I would like to ask the Democratic Party to take the narrative of immigration and to stand for us, because we are workers, we're good people, and if they do not take the narrative and start writing immigration reform, the Republicans are going to continue to call us names and berate us.

我想請民主黨接過移民的話題，站在我們的立場上，因為我們是工人，我們是好人，如果他們不接過話題，開始撰寫移民改革的文章，共和黨人就會繼續罵我們，辱罵我們。

So please tell the Democratic Party to stand up and also take some of the risk along with us.

是以，請告訴民主黨站起來，和我們一起承擔一些風險。

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