周四下午，纽约市民正在就美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）造成的恐怖行径作证，当时美国又发生了一起针对ICE的枪击事件。
On Thursday afternoon, New Yorkers were testifying about the terror wrought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement when shots rang out in the city in the nation’s latest ICE shooting.
在布朗克斯区的一次ICE行动期间，奥斯卡·贝尔加尔遭到枪击——而他的5岁儿子当时就在车里——这一事件引发了抗议和强烈批评。令人不安的是，这一事件恰好发生在我和其他人参加最新一轮“人民听证会”之时。这场为期一天的活动由西班牙裔联合会在全国范围内举办，旨在分享统计数据，并听取民众对唐纳德·特朗普致命且充满种族主义的反移民运动的意见。
shooting of Oscar Belgal during an ICE operation in the Bronx — while his 5-year-old son was in the car — has sparked protests and heavy criticism. In a disturbing coincidence, it occurred as I and others attended the latest iteration of the People’s Hearing, a daylong gathering that the Hispanic Federation has been hosting across the country to share statistics and hear from residents about Donald Trump’s deadly racist anti-immigrant crusade.
这个行动组织的集会已成为各社区表达团结、记录ICE活动的一种方式。历史学家和法律专家将ICE与“三K党”相提并论，至少有一位里根任命的联邦法官也持类似观点。此前的听证会曾在明尼苏达州、芝加哥、洛杉矶、达拉斯和北卡罗来纳州举行。而贝尔加尔被枪击一事，恰恰凸显了为何这些活动如此必要。
The activist group’s meetups have become a way for communities to practice solidarity and document activities by ICE, which has garnered comparisons to the Ku Klux Klan from historians legal experts at least one Reagan-appointed federal judge Previous stops have included Minnesota, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and North Carolina. And Belgal’s shooting just underscored why these events are so necessary.
正如特朗普及其盟友通过残酷手段和推动“重新移民”（即自我驱逐）所意图的那样，恐惧与悲伤弥漫在空气中。移民及其支持者——包括朋友、家人和纽约市民——在讨论这场严打行动时，无不感受到这种沉重氛围。
Just as Trump and his allies have intended with their brutal tactics and pushes for“remigration” self-deportation fear and sorrow were in the air as immigrants and their allies — friends, family members and fellow New Yorkers — discussed the crackdown.
一些移民因害怕遭到报复，不得不隔着帘子作证。他们描述了被ICE特工带走后，似乎被遗弃在新泽西州德拉尼大厅等恶劣拘留中心中的遭遇。他们还讲述了与亲人分离的痛苦，那些亲人已被驱逐到陌生的国度。
Immigrants, some of whom were so fearful of reprisal they testified from behind a curtain described being taken by ICE agents and then left to seemingly languish in squalid detention centers, such as New Jersey’s Delaney Hall. They also spoke of separation from relatives who have been deported to unfamiliar lands.
律师们作证称，特朗普政府试图加速驱逐移民儿童，以及不得不向尚不会组句的幼儿解释这一困境所造成的创伤。一位移民小贩倡导者——几位谈论ICE在纽约打击行动造成毁灭性经济影响的人之一——表示，小贩们面临着不满顾客的仇外攻击，这些顾客发誓要向ICE举报他们，无论他们的移民身份如何。
Lawyers testified about the Trump administration’s efforts to hasten deportations of immigrant children as well as the trauma of having to explain this plight to toddlers too young to form a sentence. An advocate for immigrant vendors — one of several to talk about the devastating economic impact of ICE’s crackdown on New York — said vendors have faced xenophobic attacks from disgruntled customers who have vowed to report them to ICE, regardless of their immigration status.
总体信息很明确：ICE是社会的威胁。这似乎是一种普遍的看法，最近的民调显示，许多美国人——包括MAGA支持者——都不赞成ICE的执法手段。
The overall message was clear: ICE is a menace to society. And that’s a view that seems to be widespread, with recent polling showing that many Americans —including MAGA supporters— disapprove of ICE’s enforcement tactics.
西班牙裔联合会与学者合作汇编每次听证会的报告，并打算将其提交给联邦立法者。该组织主席Frankie Miranda告诉我，这些听证会具有“宣泄”作用，因为它们让社区能够共同哀悼和制定策略。他说，下个月中期选举中华盛顿权力易手的前景，为该组织的报告带来补救和持久变革打开了可能性。
The Hispanic Federation works with academics to compile reports from each hearing, and it intends to relay them to federal lawmakers. The group’s president, Frankie Miranda, told me the hearings have been “cathartic” in that they have allowed communities to grieve and strategize together. He said the prospect of power changing hands in Washington in next month’s midterm elections opens the possibility that his organization’s reports could lead to reparation and lasting change.
“我们将有机会就正在发生的一切追责，削减部分资金，设立一些护栏，并可能为那些遭受如此多、如此多痛苦的人们和家庭伸张正义，”他说。
“We will have an opportunity to ask for accountability for everything that is happening, curbing some of the funding, putting up some guardrails and maybe getting some sort of justice for some of the people and families that have been put through so much, so much pain,” he said.
Miranda表示，这些集会是确保ICE的暴力执法“不成为常态”在公众眼中的重要工具。
Miranda said the gatherings are an important tool to ensure that ICE’s brutal policing “doesn’t become normal” in the eyes of the public.
“我们知道，例如在二战中纳粹时期发生的最大教训是，人们在自愿顺从，”他说，并补充道：“他们会说，‘哦，这是新现实，所以我只会跟随。’但当我们在餐桌旁与朋友和其他人交谈，说这不正常时——这些论坛就是那场对话的一部分。它们让人们能够说：‘这就是我的感受；我不孤单。’所以谈论这件事非常、非常有力量。”
“We know that the biggest lesson that happened, for example, in World War II with Nazis is that people were doing voluntary compliance,” he said, adding: “They’d say, ‘Oh, this is the new reality, so I’m just going to follow.’ But when we talk at the kitchen table with friends and others and say this is not normal — these forums are part of that conversation. They allow people to say: ‘This is what I’ve been feeling; I’m not alone.’ So talking about it is very, very powerful.”
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