2026-06-19T09:00:25.669Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
丹·奥斯本是内布拉斯加州参议院竞选的民主党支持的独立候选人，他在竞选期间一直在争取那些批评特朗普政府激进移民执法政策的选民。
他曾尖锐谴责特朗普政府的相关策略，批评蒙面特工的使用，称移民劳动力对内布拉斯加州的经济至关重要，联邦对工厂和餐馆的突袭正在损害企业主的利益。
但奥斯本五年前在奥马哈凯洛格谷物加工厂激烈罢工期间担任工会领袖的过往，却让他的这一竞选说辞变得复杂。罢工期间，奥斯本和他所在的工会曾协助向联邦移民当局举报凯洛格公司用无证移民替代罢工工人的指控。
“凯洛格公司正在引进替代工人，我们有充分依据证明，他们正用大量无证工人取代我们，”奥斯本2021年12月在一档支持工会的播客中说道，“我们已经联系了国土安全部和移民海关执法局（ICE），我们已经提交了指控。我希望他们能做出正确的选择，调查我们的指控。”
奥斯本在此次采访中并未提供凯洛格公司雇佣无证工人的证据，CNN也无法独立核实这一指控。尽管当时的媒体报道记录了凯洛格公司使用临时替代劳工的情况，但没有公开报道指出这些工人中有任何人是无证移民，CNN对相关记录的核查也未发现支持这一指控的证据。凯洛格公司未回应置评请求。
奥斯本的竞选团队如今表示，他本人从未联系过移民海关执法局或国土安全部。竞选团队在发给CNN的一份声明中称，奥斯本当时只是致电当地警长办公室，询问此类指控应如何举报。随后他将警长办公室给出的指导意见转达给了团队成员，而其他人员则是以“个人身份”自行联系了联邦当局。
移民海关执法局的一名发言人以不披露举报涉嫌移民违规行为人员的政策为由，拒绝确认或否认该机构是否收到过与凯洛格罢工相关的举报。
在奥斯本参加播客节目不到两周后，工人投票批准了新合同，这场持续77天的罢工宣告结束。
奥斯本将自己的政治身份塑造为支持劳工的民粹主义独立人士——他是一名退伍海军、前工会主席，曾在2024年参议院选举中虽败犹荣，此次竞选依托的联盟严重依赖民主党选民。而民调显示，民主党选民对移民海关执法局的敌意已大幅上升。
奥斯本2021年的言论可能会让他的竞选工作变得棘手，尤其是在移民执法已成为美国政治中最具争议的议题之一，且奥斯本试图实现鲜有候选人能成功做到的平衡之际。
他的独立候选人身份需要兼顾因经济民粹主义立场而支持他的特朗普选民，以及构成其联盟基础的民主党选民，而没有哪个议题比移民问题更能考验这一联盟。
在竞选活动中，奥斯本试图占据中间立场，一边使用强硬的边境措辞，一边对长期居住的无证移民表示同情。
他曾表示，希望长期无证移民能够获得公民身份渠道，移民劳动力对于填补内布拉斯加州的空缺岗位至关重要，无证移民在成为合法移民的过程中应该能够获得社保卡。他称自己支持移民改革，但前提是边境通过修建围墙实现安全。
奥斯本还毫不留情地批评了特朗普的部分移民策略。
“我之前说过，这一政策不仅伤害企业，也不符合人道底线，”奥斯本2025年8月在《堡垒》播客中说道，“我们看到工厂遭到突袭，肉类加工厂工人被搜查，餐馆员工不敢上班，企业主正因这项移民政策蒙受损失。因此，作为经济保守派的我对此极为担忧。”
皮尤研究中心2025年的一项调查凸显了像奥斯本这样的民主党支持的候选人在移民海关执法局问题上面临的政治紧张局势：72%的共和党人对移民海关执法局持正面看法，而民主党人则绝大多数对该机构持负面看法，仅有13%的人表达了正面评价，78%的人持负面看法。
与凯洛格公司的紧张劳资对峙
奥斯本2021年的言论发表在他当时担任主席的工会与凯洛格公司陷入紧张对峙期间。
当时，美国四家工厂的约1400名凯洛格工人因工资、福利以及公司的双层雇佣制度而罢工。该制度规定新员工的工资低于长期“正式”员工，且福利更少。随着罢工持续，凯洛格公司威胁要永久替换罢工工人，并继续使用替代劳工维持工厂运营。
当时，奥斯本担任面包师、糖果师、烟草工人与谷物磨坊工人当地50G分会主席。这场罢工持续77天后，工人于2021年12月21日投票批准了新合同，罢工宣告结束。新合同提高了工人工资，并为新员工进入正式岗位开辟了通道。“重返岗位将很困难，有很多受损的关系需要我们全力修复，”奥斯本当时说道。
当被CNN问及他向当局举报凯洛格公司替代工人的行为时，奥斯本的竞选团队试图将这位候选人与罢工中的其他参与者区分开来，称他本人从未联系过联邦移民当局。
“丹致电道格拉斯县警长办公室，询问调查和举报公司用无证工人替代罢工工人的正确程序。他将警长办公室提供的信息转达给了团队成员，”他的竞选团队告诉CNN，“许多提出凯洛格公司用无证工人替代罢工工人指控的个人，是以个人身份联系了国土安全部和移民海关执法局。丹本人从未联系过国土安全部和移民海关执法局。”
内布拉斯加州民主党未推出自己的参议院候选人，转而支持奥斯本，这在很大程度上源于他2024年参议院选举中出人意料的强劲表现。当时作为独立候选人参选的他，在特朗普以约20个百分点优势获胜的州，以约7个百分点的差距输给了共和党现任参议员黛比·费舍尔。
在那次竞选期间，奥斯本经常将更强硬的边境言论与呼吁全面移民改革结合起来。在竞选材料中，他辩称“非法移民创造了一个没有权利的廉价劳动力池，对每一位美国工人都不利”，同时也强调合法移民的经济重要性。
奥斯本的竞选团队如今用同样的措辞来解读凯洛格事件，将其视为一场对抗企业权力的斗争，而非针对移民。
“我们在与凯洛格公司罢工期间，收到了他们可能将无证劳工作为永久替代工人的报告，社区成员挺身而出保护当地工会岗位，追究企业权力的责任，”奥斯本在一份声明中说道，“我国之所以迟迟未能实现真正的移民改革，原因在于那些通过‘公民联合’案资助华盛顿政坛职业政客的大型企业，它们正利用我们破碎的移民体系剥削无证移民，创造廉价劳动力池，压低工资以提升自身利润，同时损害美国工人的利益。”
奥斯本如今正再次参选参议院，此次的对手是共和党现任参议员皮特·里基茨——前州长、特朗普背书的候选人。
在2024年9月的一则竞选广告中，奥斯本宣称：“在腐败、中国和边境问题上，我和特朗普总统立场一致。如果特朗普需要帮忙修建围墙——嗯，我手挺巧的。”他还说道：“给非法移民发社保？谁会支持这种事？”
与此同时，奥斯本也对已在美国长期居住的无证移民表示同情。
“这些人是我们的朋友，是我们的邻居。他们中的许多人已经在这里生活了30年甚至更久，我认为他们早就应该获得社保了，”奥斯本在2024年的一次采访中说道，同时还辩称内布拉斯加州“当然需要移民劳动力”来帮助填补空缺岗位。
As union leader, Democrat-backed Senate candidate Dan Osborn helped alert ICE to claims of undocumented workers
2026-06-19T09:00:25.669Z / CNN
Dan Osborn, the Democratic Party–backed independent running for Senate in Nebraska, has spent part of his campaign courting voters critical of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement.
He has sharply condemned the president’s tactics, criticizing the use of masked agents, saying that immigrant labor is essential to Nebraska’s economy and that federal raids on factories and restaurants are hurting business owners.
Complicating that message is Osborn’s role as a labor leader during a bitter strike five years ago at an Omaha Kellogg’s cereal plant. In the midst of the strike, Osborn and his union worked to alert federal immigration authorities to allegations that Kellogg’s replaced striking workers with undocumented immigrants.
“Kellogg’s bringing in replacement workers, we have it on good authority that they’re replacing us with a good percentage of undocumented workers,” Osborn said in December 2021 on a pro-union podcast. “We have been in contact with Homeland Security and ICE. We’ve made our claims. I hope they do the right thing and investigate our claims.”
Osborn offered no evidence in the interview that Kellogg’s was employing undocumented workers, and CNN could not independently verify the allegation. While reporting at the time documented Kellogg’s use of temporary replacement labor, no public reporting identified any of those workers as undocumented, and CNN’s review of the record found no evidence supporting the claim. Kellogg’s did not respond to a request for comment.
Osborn’s campaign now says he never personally contacted ICE or DHS. Instead, Osborn called the local sheriff’s department to ask how such allegations should be reported, the campaign said in a statement to CNN. He then passed that guidance to his team, the campaign said, while others contacted federal authorities on their own “in their individual capacity.”
A spokesperson for ICE declined to confirm or deny whether the agency received any tip connected to the Kellogg’s strike, citing a policy of not identifying people who report suspected immigration violations.
Less than two weeks after Osborn’s podcast appearance, workers ratified a new contract and the 77-day strike came to an end.
Osborn has built his political identity as a pro-labor populist independent — a Navy veteran and former union president who lost but overperformed in a 2024 Senate run and is now relying on a coalition that depends heavily on Democratic voters who, polling shows, have grown sharply hostile to ICE.
Osborn’s comments from 2021 could complicate that effort, especially as immigration enforcement has become one of the most polarizing issues in American politics — and as Osborn attempts a balancing act that few candidates have managed.
His independent brand depends on holding together Trump voters drawn to his economic populism and Democrats who anchor his coalition, and no issue strains that coalition more than immigration.
On the trail Osborn has tried to occupy the middle, pairing tough border language with sympathy for longtime undocumented residents.
He has said he wants longtime undocumented immigrants to have a path to citizenship, that immigrant labor is essential to filling Nebraska’s open jobs, and that undocumented immigrants should be able to get Social Security cards as part of their process of becoming legal immigrants. He says he supports immigration reform, but only when the border is secure with a wall.
Osborn’s also been unsparing in some of his criticism of Trump’s immigration tactics.
“I mentioned that it’s hurting businesses, but it’s also not humanly decent,” Osborn said on The Bulwark podcast in August 2025. “We’re seeing factories, get raided, meat cutters get raided. We’re seeing people not showing up to work at restaurants. We are seeing business owners get hurt by this immigration policy. So the economic conservative side of me is extremely worried about that.”
A 2025 Pew Research Center survey underscores the political tension around ICE for Democratic-backed candidates like Osborn: while 72% of Republicans viewed ICE favorably, Democrats overwhelmingly viewed the agency negatively, with just 13% expressing a favorable opinion and 78% viewing it unfavorably.
A tense labor standoff with Kellogg’s
Osborn’s 2021 comments came in the midst of what was then a tense standoff between Kellogg’s and the labor union Osborn was leading at the time.
Roughly 1,400 Kellogg’s workers across four US plants walked off the job over wages, benefits and the company’s two-tier employment system, which paid newer hires lower wages and offered fewer benefits than longtime “legacy” workers. As the strike dragged on, Kellogg’s threatened to permanently replace striking workers and continued operating plants with replacement labor.
At the time, Osborn was serving as president of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 50G. The strike ended after 77 days, when workers ratified a new contract on December 21, 2021, that raised wages for workers and created a path for newer employees to move into legacy positions. “It will be difficult to go back. There is a lot of tarnished relationships that we will work diligently to repair,” said Osborn at the time.
Asked by CNN about his efforts to alert authorities to Kellogg’s replacement workers , Osborn’s campaign sought to draw a distinction between the candidate and others involved in the strike, saying he personally never contacted federal immigration authorities.
“Dan contacted the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department to inquire about the proper procedures for how to investigate and report that the company was replacing their striking workers with undocumented workers. He passed the information from the Sheriff’s office along to members of his team,” his campaign told CNN. “Many of the individuals who raised the concerns about Kellogg’s replacing the striking workers with undocumented workers contacted DHS and ICE in their individual capacity. Dan never contacted DHS and ICE himself.”
The Nebraska Democratic Party’s decision not to field its own Senate candidate and instead back Osborn stems largely from his unexpectedly strong 2024 Senate run, when, running as an independent, he lost to Republican Sen. Deb Fischer by roughly 7 points in a state Donald Trump carried by about 20 points.
During that campaign, Osborn frequently blended tougher border rhetoric with calls for broader immigration reform. In campaign materials, he argued that “illegal immigration creates a pool of cheap labor with no rights and is detrimental to every American worker,” while also emphasizing the economic importance of legal immigration.
Osborn’s campaign casts the Kellogg’s episode in those same terms, as a fight against corporate power rather than against immigrants.
“When we were on strike against Kellogg’s, we received reports that they may be bringing undocumented labor as our permanent replacements, and members of the community stood up to protect these local union jobs and hold corporate power accountable,” Osborn said in a statement. “There’s a reason why we haven’t had real immigration reform in this country: mega-corporations who use Citizens United to fund career politicians in DC are benefitting from our broken immigration system by exploiting undocumented immigrants to create a cheap pool of labor, driving down wages to boost their own profits while undercutting American workers.”
Osborn now is mounting a second straight Senate run, this time against Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts — a former governor and Trump endorsee.
In a September 2024 campaign ad, Osborn declared: “I’m where President Trump is on corruption, China, the border. If Trump needs help building the wall — well, I’m pretty handy.” He also said: “Social security to illegals? Who would be for that?”
At the same time, Osborn also spoke sympathetically about long-term undocumented immigrants already living in the United States.
“These people are our friends. They’re our neighbors. A lot of them have been here 30 years or more, and I think it’s time they get into Social Security already,” Osborn said during a 2024 interview, while also arguing Nebraska could “certainly use immigrant labor” to help fill open jobs.
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