2026年10月23日 美国东部时间下午5:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
得克萨斯州麦卡伦市——贝尼·梅伦德斯是美墨边境沿线一家小型建筑公司的老板，他表示，为保护自己的移民工人，他被迫采取了极端措施。
“如果我不安装围栏，移民和海关执法局（ICE）就会闯进我的地盘把我的工人带走，”梅伦德斯一边对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻展示他在得克萨斯州南部多个建筑工地之一设置的围栏，一边说道。
梅伦德斯说，这些围栏的作用是防止ICE特工逮捕他的工人，并要求他们在进入工地前出示司法搜查令。
当地官员表示，建筑行业是受特朗普总统全面打击非法移民行动影响最严重的行业之一。像梅伦德斯这样的建筑公司老板称，他们现在很难找到工人，部分工人被ICE拘留，还有许多工人因害怕上班时被逮捕而不敢现身。他说，由于人手问题，现在建造一栋住宅需要耗时一年，而在特朗普政府开始打击非法移民之前，平均只需四个月。
“我们很幸运，今天还有两名工人，”梅伦德斯说。
这位得克萨斯州南部居民在2020年支持拜登总统后，于2024年投票支持了特朗普。他表示，ICE的行动也让他重新考虑了自己的投票选择。
“我后悔投票给拜登。现在我后悔投票给特朗普，”梅伦德斯说，“我们还有什么其他选择？两党都不替我们办事。”
注：贝尼·梅伦德斯在得克萨斯州麦卡伦的一处住宅建筑工地接受了哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者卡米洛·蒙托亚-加维斯的采访。 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
梅伦德斯的失望情绪反映了部分拉美裔选民更广泛的担忧——包括一些2024年曾投票支持特朗普的选民，他们认为特朗普的大规模驱逐行动已经走得太远。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻近期民调显示，近60%的拉美裔认为特朗普政府驱逐的人数超出了他们的预期。
民主党人希望这些担忧能助力他们在11月中期选举的关键选区获胜，进而夺回国会控制权。这一赌注将在得克萨斯州接受考验，2024年特朗普和共和党在该州拉美裔选民中获得了大幅支持，尤其是在南部边境沿线的社区——这些地区直接受到拜登政府时期当地移民危机的影响。
民主党州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科与得克萨斯州总检察长、共和党人肯·帕克斯顿正激烈角逐一个空缺席位的参议员席位。在得克萨斯州第15国会选区，民主党籍的特哈诺歌手鲍比·普利多希望击败现任共和党众议员莫妮卡·德拉·克鲁兹。
哈维尔·比利亚洛沃斯是该选区最大城市麦卡伦的共和党籍市长，他警告称，其所在的政党现在面临失去在拉美裔边境社区取得的部分成果的风险。他称ICE打击执法行动的担忧是其选民的首要关切。
“通胀、经济，所有这些都很重要。但最直接、最切身的还是打击行动——当你看到蒙面的ICE特工把人从车里拖出来时，”比利亚洛沃斯对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，“这场面并不好。”
比利亚洛沃斯指出，当地居民曾支持加强边境安保和驱逐在美非法滞留的暴力犯罪分子的举措。但他表示，如今许多人认为ICE的驱逐行动是“对西班牙裔社区的打击”，他认为这种做法已经在其所在城市引发了恐慌，甚至波及美国公民。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系白宫寻求回应。特朗普政府官员一向为ICE的执法行动辩护，称总统的竞选纲领包括扩大驱逐行动和打击非法移民。
“我对中期选举尤其不关心，”白宫边境事务沙皇汤姆·霍曼本月早些时候在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访，被问及部分共和党人对ICE的批评时表示，“我的工作是确保边境安全，执行移民法。”
杰西卡·维图内是距离麦卡伦约45分钟车程的圣贝尼托市一家咖啡店的老板，她表示两年前投票支持了特朗普，主要是出于宗教信仰。但她现在后悔这个决定，理由是当地居民被ICE拘留的案例。
“我知道他会开始驱逐人，但不是无辜的人——不是辛勤工作的人，”她说。
ICE crackdown prompts some Texas Latinos to turn away from Trump
October 23, 2026 / 5:00 PM EDT / CBS News
McAllen, Texas— Benny Melendez, the owner of a small construction company along this stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, says he’s been forced to take drastic measures to protect his immigrant workers.
“If I don’t install fences, ICE is going to come into my property and take my workers away,” Melendez said as he showed CBS News the fencing he’s set up at one of the several construction sites he manages in South Texas.
Melendez says the fencing is designed to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting his workers, and to require them to have judicial warrants before entering his job sites.
Local officials say construction is one of the industries hardest hit by President Trump’s sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration. Construction company owners like Melendez say they’re struggling to find workers, with some having been detained by ICE and many scared of showing up to work and getting arrested. Building a home, he said, is now taking his team a year due to manpower issues — up from an average of four months before the Trump administration’s crackdown began.
“We’re blessed that we have two workers today,” Melendez said.
The South Texas resident, who voted for Mr. Trump in 2024 after supporting President Biden in 2020, said ICE operations have also made him rethink his vote.
“I regret my vote for Biden. Now I regret my vote for Trump,” Melendez said. “What other options do we got? They’re not working for us, neither party.”
Benny Melendez talks with CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez at a home construction site in McAllen, Texas. CBS News
Melendez’s disillusionment is emblematic of broader concerns among some Latino voters — including some who voted for Mr. Trump in 2024 — who believe his mass deportation crackdown has gone too far. A recent CBS News poll found nearly 60% of Latinos believe the Trump administration has deported more people than they expected.
Democrats are hoping those concerns will help them in key races in the midterm elections in November, as they try to retake control of Congress. That bet will be put to the test in Texas, where Mr. Trump and Republicans saw huge gains among Latinos in 2024, especially in communities along the southern border directly affected by the migration crisis there under the Biden administration.
Democratic state representative James Talarico and Ken Paxton, Texas’ Republican attorney general, are in a hotly contested race for an open Senate seat. In Texas’ 15th congressional district, Tejano singer Bobby Pulido, a Democrat, is hoping to unseat Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz.
Javier Villalobos, the Republican mayor of McAllen, the largest city in that congressional district, warned that his party is now at risk of losing some of the gains it made in Latino border communities. He called concerns about ICE’s crackdown the No. 1 issue among his constituents.
“Inflation, the economy, everything is important. But what hits you immediately, what hits personally is the crackdown, when you see the ICE agents, masked, and pulling people out of vehicles,” Villalobos told CBS News. “It is not a good picture.”
Villalobos noted that local residents supported efforts to bolster border security and deport violent criminals in the U.S. illegally. But he said many now see ICE’s deportation campaign as “a crackdown on the Hispanic community,” one he believes has instilled fear in his city, including among American citizens.
CBS News has reached out to the White House for a response. Trump administration officials have routinely defended ICE’s enforcement efforts, noting the president ran on expanding deportations and cracking down on illegal immigration.
“I particularly don’t care about midterms,” White House border czar Tom Homan told CBS News earlier this month when asked about criticism of ICE by some Republicans. “My job as a border czar is to keep that border secure and enforce immigration law.”
Jessica Vuittonet, a coffee shop owner in San Benito, roughly a 45-minute drive from McAllen, said she voted for Mr. Trump two years ago, mainly because of her religious views. But she says she now regrets that decision, citing cases of local residents getting detained by ICE.
“I know he was going to start deporting people but not innocent people — not hardworking people,” she said.
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