众议员迈克·劳勒在移民问题上步步为营，试图保住自己的席位。作者：麦迪逊·费尔南德斯 纽约 — 众议院中最脆弱的共和党人之一正以移民问题为竞选焦点 — — 并因此同时面临两党的压力。
Rep. Mike Lawler is walking a fine line on immigration in an attempt to hold onto his seat. By Madison Fernandez NEW YORK — One of the most vulnerable Republicans in the House is running on immigration — and taking on both parties over it.
众议员迈克·劳勒一直在抨击民主党的“庇护城镇”政策，同时也在批评特朗普政府的激进 — — 有时甚至致命的 — — 移民执法手段。
Rep. Mike Lawler is hammering Democrats over “sanctuary” policies while criticizing the Trump administration’s aggressive — and at times lethal — immigration enforcement tactics.
“瑞尼·古德和亚历克斯·普雷蒂不该死去。但谢里丹·戈曼也不该死，拉克恩·赖利也不该死，还有成千上万被非法入境且犯罪的人杀害的人也不该死，”劳勒本月早些时候在候选人论坛上说。“所以是的，ICE需要改革，但你知道什么？庇护司法管辖区不应存在。罪犯应该被驱逐出境。”劳勒正押注他自称为“常识”的方法能够赢得他在哈德逊河谷郊区选区的第三个任期 — — 该选区在2024年被卡马拉·哈里斯赢得。
“Renee Good and Alex Pretti should not be dead. But neither should Sheridan Gorman, and neither should Laken Riley, and neither should the thousands of people who have been murdered by people who are in our country illegally and committing crimes,” Lawler said at a candidate forum earlier this month. “So yes, ICE needs reforms, but you know what? Sanctuary jurisdictions should not exist. Criminals should be deported.”Lawler is betting his self-described “common sense” approach can win him a third term in a suburban Hudson Valley district Kamala Harris carried in 2024.
他与民主党候选人凯特·康利的对决 — — 康利是一名陆军退役军人和首次参选者 — — 可能有助于决定众议院的控制权。
His race against Democrat Cait Conley, an Army veteran and first-time candidate, could help determine control of the House.
移民问题曾帮助共和党赢得选举，但今年由于对特朗普总统政策的广泛不满，这一优势变得不那么确定。尽管如此，劳勒仍在坚持推进这一议题。
Immigration has helped Republicans win elections, but broad dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump’s policies has made it a less certain advantage this year. Lawler is pressing it anyway.
他在这一话题上投放了付费媒体广告，并举办了多场活动，谴责民主党的移民政策。在最近接受一组地方记者采访时，他甚至自己主动提到了这个问题：“我们之前没有谈到移民，我想提出来，因为这是一个真实的问题，”他说。
He’s run paid mediaon the topic and held multiple events decrying Democrats’ immigration policies. In a recent interview with a panel of local reporters, he even brought it up himself: “We did not touch on immigration, and I want to raise this because this is a real problem,” he said.
“从根本上说，当你看待这个挑战时，我认为大多数人希望在移民问题上看到常识，而不是极端主义，”劳勒在本周早些时候与康利的辩论后对记者说。
“Fundamentally, when you look at the challenge, I think most people want common sense, not extremism, on the issue of immigration,” Lawler told reporters after a debate with Conley earlier this week.
这种强调是否符合选民的优先事项，还有待商榷。埃默森学院最近的一项民意调查发现，在该选区最重要的议题中，移民问题远远落后于经济和对民主的威胁。而特朗普在纽约州的支持率一直很低，他常常成为移民辩论的焦点。
Whether that emphasis matches voters’ priorities is another question. A recent Emerson College poll found immigration ranked far behind the economy and threats to democracy among the district’s most important issues. And Trump, whose approval ratings are abysmal in New York state, is often at the center of the immigration debate.
劳勒能够批评特朗普而不像其他共和党人那样招致反弹。他反复强调自己与总统在提高州和地方税扣除额上限方面的斗争，而特朗普早在今年早些时候的一次集会上就曾称赞他在这方面的努力。
Lawler has been able to criticize Trump without drawing the backlash other Republicans have faced. He repeatedly highlights his fight with the president to raise the cap for the state and local tax deduction, which Trump ended up praising him for at a rally earlier this year.
其他试图与总统保持距离的共和党人却并未取得同样好的成绩。众议员玛丽亚·埃尔维拉·萨拉查就是其中之一。特朗普在她发布一则挑战其移民打压的竞选广告后，对这位佛罗里达州的共和党众议员进行了严厉的批评。然而，即使劳勒对特朗普的影响力也有其局限。
Other Republicans who’ve sought to create distance with the president haven’t fared nearly as well. Rep. María Elvira Salazar is just one. Trump eviscerated the Florida Republican after she released a campaign ad challenging his immigration crackdown. Yet even Lawler’s leverage with Trump has limits.
他一直强调自己支持延长海地人的临时保护身份（TPS），而他的选区就有成千上万的海地人。今年早些时候，特朗普政府宣布将终止对海地人的这些保护措施，劳勒公开表示反对，警告将人们送回该国是不安全的。
He’s highlighted his support for extending Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitians, thousands of whom live in his district. When the Trump administration announced it would be ending those protections for Haitians earlier this year, Lawler made his opposition known, warning it was not safe to send people back to the country.
他说，他一直在处理个别案例，以支持他选区内的海地人。居住在罗克兰县的让·伯纳德·查尔斯告诉《政治》杂志，劳勒的办公室在帮助他的妻子来到美国方面提供了帮助，他还建议面临同样情况的朋友前往该办公室寻求帮助。
He said he’s been working on individual cases to support Haitians in his district. Jean Bernard Charles, who lives in Rockland County, told POLITICO that Lawler’s office was helpful in getting his wife to the country and he recommended his friends facing the same situation to go to the office for help.
劳勒还共同发起了一项延长临时保护状态（TPS）的立法，但该法案在参议院陷入停滞。他辩称，自己已经通过在众议院通过法案履行了职责，并将责任归咎于参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默，称其未推动该法案前进。（作为回应，舒默办公室在一份声明中表示，该领导人“在参议院全体会议上通过一致同意动议延长海地人的TPS，但遭到参议院共和党人和特朗普总统的阻挠，而劳勒一直在支持特朗普。”）
Lawler also cosponsored legislation to extend TPS, which is stalled in the Senate. He argued that he’s fulfilled his role by passing a bill through the House and has blamed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for not moving it along. (In response, Schumer's office said in a statement that the leader “moved to extend Haitian TPS on the Senate floor by unanimous consent and was blocked by Senate Republicans and President Trump, who Lawler constantly supports.”)“I've explained this to the White House, repeatedly, that ending TPS was a stupid decision,” Lawler said at the forum. “I am opposed to it, and I will continue to fight back against it.”
“我已经多次向白宫解释，终止TPS是一个愚蠢的决定，”劳勒在论坛上说。“我反对这一决定，我将继续与之斗争。”但政府尚未改变立场。罗克兰县的社区领袖表示，该县是该选区海地社区的所在地，许多移民因过于害怕而不敢离开家园。有些人对当前的应对措施不足感到日益沮丧。
The administration hasn’t budged, though. Community leaders in Rockland County, where the district’s Haitian community is based, say many immigrants are too scared to leave their homes. Some are growing frustrated that more isn’t being done. “If there was the help, our folks would not be wearing ankle monitors,” said Nicole Hines, the NAACP's mid-Hudson and Westchester regional director.
“如果有足够的帮助，我们的同胞就不会被戴上脚踝监控器了，”NAACP哈德逊河中游和西切斯特地区主任妮可·海因斯说。
Renold Julien, the executive director of Konbit Neg Lakay, a Haitian community center in Lawler’s district, pointed to Lawler’s close relationship with Trump, including the president coming to the district earlier this year and Lawler appearing at a meeting at the White House with Jewish leaders, some of whom are from the district.
雷诺德·朱利安是劳勒选区内海地社区中心“Konbit Neg Lakay”的执行董事，他指出劳勒与特朗普的密切关系，包括特朗普今年早些时候访问该选区，以及劳勒在白宫与犹太领袖会面的情形——其中一些人也来自该选区。
“I feel bad for Mike Lawler,” Julien said.
“我为迈克·劳勒感到难过，”朱利安说。“朋友不该这样对待朋友。……他朋友唐纳德·特朗普正尽其所能在罗克兰制造他与深肤色移民之间的矛盾。”“他能够动用足够的资源让特朗普飞到这里，在五月访问选区，前往达拉斯参加特朗普的中期党代会并担任主题演讲嘉宾，但他却无法让特朗普真正关心哈德逊山谷地区的人民，通过延长TPS来保护我们的海地社区？”她问道。
“Friends don't treat friends like that. … His friend Donald Trump is doing his best to create a problem between him and the dark-skinned immigrants here of Rockland.”“He can have enough capital to get Donald Trump to fly out here and visit the district in May, to go to Dallas at Trump's midterm convention and be a keynote speaker, but he can't get Donald Trump to actually take care of people in the Hudson Valley and protect our Haitian community by extending TPS?” she asked. When asked how she would advocate for Haitians if she wins — especially since she won’t have Trump’s ear like Lawler does — Conley said she thinks Democrats will win the Senate, clearing the way for the bill to extend TPS to get to the president’s desk.
当被问及如果她获胜将如何为海地人辩护时 — — 尤其是她不会像劳勒那样拥有特朗普的耳朵 — — 康利表示，她认为民主党将赢得参议院，为延长TPS的法案送达总统办公桌铺平道路。
Lawler has repeatedly bashed Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent law that ended cooperation between local police departments and Immigration and Customs Enforcement on civil immigration cases, and questioned why the state is not honoring the Department of Homeland Security’s detainer requests, as the agency has stated.
劳勒多次抨击纽约州民主党州长凯西·霍楚尔最近的一项法律，该法律终止了地方警察部门与移民与海关执法局在民事移民案件上的合作，并质疑该州为何不遵守国土安全部的拘留请求，正如该机构所声称的那样。谢里丹·戈尔曼 — — 劳勒选区的一名青少年，今年早些时候在芝加哥 allegedly 被一名非法居住在美国的委内瑞拉人杀害 — — 的父母曾多次与劳勒一起出现在竞选路上，批评民主党的移民政策。
The parents of Sheridan Gorman — a teenager from Lawler’s district who was killed earlier this year in Chicago, allegedly by a Venezuelan living in the U.S. illegally — have appeared on the trail with him a handful of times to criticize Democrats’ immigration policies. “The sanctuary policies being pushed by Kathy Hochul and Democrats killed our daughter,” Jessica Gorman, Sheridan’s mother, said in an for Lawler.
“凯西·霍楚尔和民主党推行的庇护政策导致了我们女儿的死亡，”谢里丹的母亲杰西卡·戈尔曼在为劳勒制作的广告中说道。上周在一场活动中，她指责霍楚尔和康利不关心保护家庭。
At an event last week, she accused Hochul and Conley of not caring about protecting families. Hochul has waved off such criticisms, saying that law enforcement is still permitted to work with federal officials to remove violent criminals.
霍楚尔对此类批评不予理会，称执法部门仍被允许与联邦官员合作以清除暴力罪犯。
Even if immigration isn’t voters’ top concern, it’s a topic Lawler can own, said Sarah Chamberlain, the head of the Republican Main Street Partnership, of which Lawler is a member.
即使移民不是选民的首要关切，劳勒也能在这方面占据优势，共和党主街伙伴关系组织的负责人莎拉·张伯伦说道，劳勒是该组织的成员。她补充说，经济对沮丧的选民来说更难推销。聚焦于霍楚尔的政策也迎合了她在竞选连任时的中等人气。霍楚尔的对手布鲁斯·布拉克曼同样一直在猛烈抨击这一问题。
The economy is a harder sell to frustrated voters, she added. Focusing on Hochul’s policy also taps into her middling popularity as she runs for reelection. Hochul’s opponent, Bruce Blakeman, has similarly been hammering the issue. “He's been extremely successful finding middle ground on it,” Chamberlain said of Lawler, praising his focus on deporting immigrants who have committed crimes and noting the district’s proximity to New York City.
“他在寻找共同点方面非常成功，”张伯伦谈到劳勒时说，称赞他专注于驱逐犯有罪行的移民，并指出该选区靠近纽约市。“他能够独自做到这一点，因为这与他的选区和他居住的地方高度相关。其他一些议员无法以同样的方式做到这一点。”并非所有人都相信他的方法会奏效。
“He uniquely can do it because it’s very specific to his district and to where he lives. Some other members couldn't be doing it the same way.”Not everyone is convinced his approach will work. “Mike Lawler is reading the tea leaves and realizing what we have been saying is true — that the vast majority of Americans across this country and in this state are against Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda,” said Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of NYIC Action, the political arm of the nonprofit New York Immigration Coalition.
“迈克·劳勒正在解读形势，意识到我们一直在说的事情是正确的——即全国乃至本州绝大多数美国人反对唐纳德·特朗普的大规模驱逐议程，”纽约移民联盟政治行动机构（NYIC Action）的总裁兼首席执行官穆拉德·阿瓦瓦德说，该机构是非营利组织纽约移民联盟的政治臂膀。“虽然他可能在做一些表态性的事情来表明他并非百分之百的MAGA和支持大规模驱逐，但他的行动实际上比他的言语更有说服力。”
“While he may be doing a couple of vibes-oriented things to illustrate he’s not 100 percent MAGA and mass deportation, his actions actually speak louder than his words.”Awawdeh said that even though Lawler has made some moves on Haitian TPS, that “doesn’t erase the horrors that he’s cosigned to date” in supporting increased funding for ICE.
阿瓦瓦德表示，尽管劳勒在海地临时保护身份（TPS）问题上采取了一些行动，但“这并不能抹去他至今为止在支持增加ICE经费方面所共同制造的恐怖。”虽然劳勒确实支持《尊严法案》——这是一项两党移民改革法案，旨在为可能数百万非法入境的移民创造获得工作许可并合法留在美国的途径——但一些移民倡导者认为，该法案在创造入籍途径方面还不够。
And while Lawler does back the Dignity Act — the bipartisan immigration reform bill that would create a vehicle for potentially millions of immigrants who entered the country unlawfully to gain work permits and remain in the U.S. legally — some immigrant advocates argue it doesn’t go far enough in creating a pathway to citizenship. The bill has yet to reach the House floor for a vote.
该法案尚未提交众议院进行表决。“移民家庭不是他塑造中间派形象的道具，”阿瓦瓦德说。
“Immigrant families are not props for his moderate image,” Awawdeh said. When asked if he thinks his immigration message is getting muddled, Lawler said he has “never wavered in my position” and that most Americans “want the border secure, they want criminals deported and they want cashless bail gone.”
当被问及他是否认为自己的移民信息变得模糊不清时，劳勒表示他“从未在立场上动摇”，并且大多数美国人“希望边境安全，希望驱逐罪犯，希望取消无现金保释。”劳勒一直试图将康利描绘得在边境和犯罪问题上过于软弱，指出她支持撤销地方警察与ICE之间的合作伙伴关系，即所谓的287(g)协议。
Lawler has sought to cast Conley as too weak on the border and crime, pointing to her support for revoking partnerships between local police and ICE, known as 287(g) agreements. Conley told POLITICO she’s in favor of getting rid of those agreements because she wants “our local cops to be focused on protecting our local communities, not doing the federal government's job.”
康利对《Politico》表示，她支持废除那些协议，因为她希望“我们当地的警察能专注于保护本地社区，而不是去执行联邦政府的任务”。虽然她指责前总统乔·拜登搞砸了边境安全工作，但也批评特朗普执政时期的移民与海关执法局“对美国公民实施暴力”，且“没有把暴力罪犯作为重点打击对象”。她还表示自己不支持取消现金保释制度——劳勒多次将该制度与庇护政策相提并论，视作犯罪率上升的诱因。
While she said former President Joe Biden messed up border security, she criticized ICE under Trump for “violence against American citizens” and not “prioritizing violent criminals.”She said she does not support cashless bail, which Lawler has repeatedly pointed to as a catalyst of crime, along with sanctuary policies. Conley, though, has focused more of her energy on voters’ top concern this cycle: affordability.
不过，康利把更多精力放在了本届选举中选民最关心的议题上：生活成本问题。她称，在竞选活动中，比起移民问题，她更常听到选民抱怨付账单、购买汽油以及支付医疗费用的压力。她还指责劳勒利用移民问题作为“转移注意力的手段”，目的是“把公众视线从他未能为社区解决问题的事实上引开”。
She said she hears concerns about paying bills and affording gas and health care more frequently on the trail, as opposed to immigration. She accused Lawler of using the issue as a “distraction” to “shift focus away from where he is failing our communities.”Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant, said it’s commendable that Lawler is finding balance on the issue but “the problem is no one’s making their voting decision based on this” and it “doesn't cut through the headwinds on the economy.”
共和党政治顾问迈克·马德里德认为，劳勒在这一议题上力求平衡的做法值得肯定，但“问题在于根本没有选民会根据这一点来做投票决定”，而且这一举措“也无法扭转经济方面的不利形势”。劳勒则坚信选民能够理解其中的微妙之处。
Lawler thinks voters are picking up on the nuance. “I've been leading on this issue for years, saying that the immigration system needs to be reformed,” he told POLITICO after a recent press conference slamming Hochul’s law.
“多年来我一直倡导改革移民体系，”在最近一场抨击霍楚尔相关法律的记者会后，他对《Politico》说道，“这些举措并不相互冲突。我们需要认识到移民体系的复杂性，同时也要运用常识来加以应对。”
“These things are not in conflict. It's recognizing how complex our immigration system is, but it's also having common sense and applying it.”