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- 社区组织者称，肉类加工厂工人因担忧遭遇美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）而居家停工
- 畜牧团体表示，执法行动导致数千头牲畜的运输延误
- 美国农业部数据显示，周四美国肉牛屠宰量较一周前下降16%
芝加哥9月25日路透电——社区组织者和当地官员表示，美国移民执法人员本周在堪萨斯州西南部展开行动，该地区集中了大量牲畜饲养场和屠宰场，此次行动立即对牛肉产业造成冲击。
两名社区组织者以及三个畜牧生产者代表团体称，被捕的风险让大量外籍劳工群体缺勤，迫使牛肉加工厂放缓生产节奏，并造成牲畜积压。
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“现场一片混乱，”来自堪萨斯州自由市的社区志愿者凯瑟琳·阿隆索说道，“显然他们只拦截棕色人种，其他种族的人根本不会被拦下。”
随着民众对物价负担的担忧影响共和党在即将到来的美国中期选举中维持参众两院控制权的胜算，唐纳德·特朗普总统已出台多项政策，旨在控制牛肉价格。
行业和工会官员表示，移民执法可能成为又一项适得其反的举措，导致此前已处于高位的牛肉价格进一步上涨。由于交易商在考量美国供应紧张与执法行动引发的加工中断问题，本周肉牛期货价格波动剧烈。
当地居民称，他们相信有数十人被拘留，但具体人数尚未明确。美国国土安全部、美国移民与海关执法局以及白宫均未回应置评请求。
组织者和当地政府官员表示，本周ICE警员在堪萨斯州道奇城、自由市和加登城周边拦停驾车者，询问其公民身份状况。这些小型社区的多数人口为拉丁裔。警员还在肉类加工厂和大型奶牛场周边区域巡逻并停车值守。
堪萨斯州畜牧协会、俄克拉荷马州畜牧生产者协会以及德克萨斯州牲畜饲养者协会在一份声明中表示，此次行动导致加工厂、饲养场和奶牛场的劳动力短缺，并延误了数千头牲畜的运输。
“这些ICE行动对那些将牛肉送上餐桌、维持肉牛供应链运转的合法、有证件的技术工人造成了极大的寒蝉效应，”这些团体说道，“此类中断将导致消费者面临更高的牛肉价格。”
牛肉价格飙升
今年以来，由于多年干旱迫使牧场主将牛群数量缩减至75年来的最低水平，加之华盛顿暂停从墨西哥进口牛肉，美国牛肉价格已涨至历史新高。特朗普试图通过多项政策和其他声明压低价格，包括增加低关税牛肉进口以及对肉类加工厂展开调查。
美国农业部称，周四肉类加工厂的肉牛屠宰量约为9万头，较一周前下降16%。
据该机构数据，堪萨斯州的商业肉牛加工量位居全美第二，仅次于内布拉斯加州。
“多亏了大量辛勤从事着很少有人愿意做的工作的移民，这个地区才能产出全国很大比例的牛奶和牛肉，”阿隆索说道，“我们是这个国家的心脏地带，现在却遭到恐吓，我们必须制止这种情况。”
美国四大牛肉加工企业中的两家——国民牛肉包装公司和嘉吉公司——在道奇城设有加工厂。国民牛肉在自由市也设有一家加工厂。
堪萨斯州投票权组织“亮声”的资深拉丁裔与乡村项目主管亚历杭德罗·兰赫尔-洛佩斯表示，移民执法人员周三将行动重点放在加工厂周边区域。
“他们煞费苦心想要进入自由市和道奇城的国民牛肉工厂，”住在道奇城的兰赫尔-洛佩斯说道，“他们守在停车场，试图带人走。”
国民牛肉表示，公司致力于支持员工并遵守法律。
“我们正在提供合法范围内的适当配合，并尝试以有序的方式与国土安全部推进此事，”发言人托比·库克说道。他拒绝回答有关ICE行动的具体问题。
嘉吉未回应置评请求。
自由市副市长贾内特·巴斯克斯表示，由于ICE警员针对所有有色人种，周四国民牛肉在自由市的工厂几乎没有员工到岗。
巴斯克斯还称，ICE警员还在一所父母无合法身份的学生就读的小学周边巡逻，当天很多孩子都没来上课。
“我们的社区如今像一座鬼城，”巴斯克斯说道，“商户都不营业，因为人们害怕出门。”
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US immigration crackdown hits Kansas, disrupts beef processing
2026-09-25T18:23:30.517Z / Reuters
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Meatpacking workers stay home over fear of ICE, community organizers say
Livestock groups say crackdown delays shipments of thousands of cattle
US cattle slaughtering fell 16% on Thursday from a week ago, USDA says
CHICAGO, Sept 25 (Reuters) – US immigration agents fanned out across southwest Kansas, home to a large concentration of feedlots and slaughterhouses, this week in an operation that had immediate effects on the beef industry, community organizers and local officials said.
The prospect of arrest kept much of the largely immigrant labor force away from work, forcing beef processing plants to slow down and backing up cattle, according to two community organizers and three groups representing livestock producers.
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“It’s been chaotic,” said Kathleen Alonso, a community volunteer from Liberal, Kansas. “Obviously they were stopping Brown people. They were not stopping any other races.”
As affordability concerns weigh on the Republican Party’s chances of maintaining control of the House and Senate in the upcoming US midterms, President Donald Trump has enacted policies aimed at controlling the cost of beef.
Immigration enforcement could be the latest to work at cross purposes, causing record-high beef prices to tick up even higher, according to industry and union officials. Cattle futures gyrated this week as traders weighed tight US supplies against processing disruptions due to the crackdown.
Local residents said they believed that dozens of people were detained, though the exact number was not immediately clear. The Department of Homeland Security, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
ICE officers have stopped motorists this week to ask about their citizenship status around Dodge City, Liberal and Garden City, Kansas, small communities where most of the population is Latino, according to organizers and local government officials. Agents patrolled and parked in areas around meat plants and a large dairy, they said.
The activity led to workforce disruptions at processors, feedlots and dairies, and delayed shipments of thousands of cattle, the Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Texas Cattle Feeders Association said in a statement.
“These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving,” the groups said. “These types of disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers.”
BEEF PRICES HAVE SOARED
US beef prices soared to records this year after a multi-year drought drove ranchers to reduce their herds to a 75-year low and Washington suspended cattle imports from Mexico. Trump has struggled to lower prices with a bevy of policies and other pronouncements, including increasing low-tariff beef imports and launching an investigation into meatpackers.
Meatpackers slaughtered an estimated 90,000 cattle on Thursday, down 16% from a week earlier, the US Department of Agriculture said.
Kansas ranks second nationwide for commercial cattle processing behind Nebraska, according to the agency.
“A large percentage of milk and beef come from this region thanks to a lot of immigrants who work very hard to do jobs not many people do,” Alonso said. “We are the heart of this country, and it is being terrorized, and we need it to stop.”
Two of the country’s four large beef processors, National Beef Packing Company and Cargill, have plants in Dodge City. National Beef also has a plant in Liberal.
Immigration agents focused their activity in areas around the plants on Wednesday, said Alejandro Rangel-Lopez, senior Latino and rural program manager for Kansas voting rights group Loud Light.
“They tried really, really hard to get into National Beef in both Liberal and Dodge City,” said Rangel-Lopez, who lives in Dodge City. “They were in the parking lot and trying to pick up people.”
National Beef said it was committed to supporting employees and following the law.
“We are providing legally appropriate cooperation and attempting to work through this process with the Department of Homeland Security in an orderly way,” spokesperson Toby Cook said. He declined to answer specific questions about ICE activity.
Cargill did not respond to a request for comment.
Few employees showed up to the National Beef plant in Liberal on Thursday because ICE agents were targeting all people of color, said Janeth Vazquez, the city’s vice mayor.
ICE agents also circled an elementary school that has students with undocumented parents, and many children did not show up for class, she said.
“Our community is a ghost town,” Vazquez said. “Businesses are not open because people are scared to leave their homes.”
Reporting by Tom Polansek; Editing by Emily Schmall and Andrea Ricci
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