2026年3月23日 上午10:03 UTC / 路透社
作者：博·埃里克森
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- 摘要
- 特朗普在伊朗战争和经济不确定时期将焦点转向治安问题
- 联邦打击行动开始以来，孟菲斯犯罪率下降43%
- 共和党希望在中期选举中提高胜算
孟菲斯，3月23日（路透社）——伊朗战争已进入第四周，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普将把焦点从海外冲突转向治安问题，他将于周一访问田纳西州孟菲斯，强调其打击犯罪行动，以在11月中期选举前巩固本党优势。
特朗普预计将发表关于犯罪和移民问题的强硬言论，这标志着他重新聚焦于一个他希望能引起选民共鸣的议题。目前他正面临着高风险的军事决策以及战争引发的经济不确定性，同时试图在今年早些时候明尼苏达州动荡的打击行动后重新定义自己的执法记录。
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数千名联邦特工涌入孟菲斯的行动始于9月。根据联邦调查局的数据，该市人均暴力犯罪率在美国最高，这促使特朗普成立了孟菲斯安全特别工作组。
特朗普当时在命令中表示：”这座城市是美国文化的灯塔，是 Elvis 的故乡，常被称为摇滚和蓝调音乐的发源地，应该保障所有市民的安全。”他还像在华盛顿特区一样动员了国民警卫队进行巡逻。
根据当地执法部门的数据，与去年相比，孟菲斯整体犯罪率下降了约43%。特别工作组表示，自打击行动开始以来，他们已逮捕近7000人，查获近1100支非法枪支。
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中期选举前的政治推动
特朗普的顶级政治顾问希望他谈论民生议题，但美国人对物价的担忧以及他最近的外交政策举措，已使他在共和党控制地区的国内访问黯然失色。
自2月28日美国和以色列开始袭击伊朗以来，燃料成本上涨，中东的石油和天然气出口因敌对行动受阻。旅行分析机构AAA的数据显示，田纳西州的汽油价格与上月相比平均每加仑上涨超过1美元。
“我们身处一场一无所知的战争中，我们确实收入不错，但汽油价格对我们来说太贵了，”55岁的医院管理人员金伯利·詹金斯从得克萨斯州休斯顿前往孟菲斯时表示。
共和党希望通过强调大城市犯罪率下降，将讨论带回本党过去常关注的政治领域。
近几个月来，特朗普的高级移民官员经常引用孟菲斯行动——这一行动受到该市一些民主党官员的欢迎——作为正面例子，与明尼阿波利斯强硬的移民执法形成对比。明尼阿波利斯联邦特工在致命射杀两名美国公民后引发了大规模抗议。
“我们在孟菲斯没有这个问题，”前国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆在1月明尼阿波利斯移民官员第二次致命枪击事件后表示。但从那以后，总统试图重新调整这个问题，解雇了诺姆，告诉州长们只有在被要求时才会增派特工，并指示官员采取更”有针对性”的方法。
这种策略的转变可能对特朗普的共和党在11月中期选举中有利。该保守政党希望在目前微弱的多数基础上扩大优势。路透社/益普索上月的民调显示，约61%的受访者（包括92%的共和党人和35%的民主党人）表示他们”支持驱逐非法移民”，但普遍不赞成特朗普政府的强硬策略。
在特朗普访问孟菲斯的前一晚，比尔街（Beale Street）上的居民和游客对可见的执法力量增加意见不一。比尔街的霓虹灯标志突显了该市的蓝调和爵士乐历史。
33岁的法学学生达里乌斯·奥尼尔在采访中表示：”国民警卫队和增派警察的疯狂存在只集中在主要旅游区。”他质疑特朗普增派力量的政治动机。
但60岁的孟菲斯摄影师杜韦恩·汉布林自认为是民主党人，他说尽管犯罪仍在继续，但”我认为执法力量的存在是件好事。”
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Trump visits Memphis to tout crime-fighting efforts as Iran war lingers
March 23, 2026 10:03 AM UTC / Reuters
By Bo Erickson
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- Trump shifts focus to law-and-order amid Iran war, economic uncertainty
- Memphis crime down 43% since federal crackdown began
- Republicans hope to boost their chances in midterms
MEMPHIS, March 23 (Reuters) – Four weeks into the Iran war, U.S. President Donald Trump will shift his focus from overseas conflict to law‑and‑order, visiting Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday to highlight his crime crackdown to bolster his party ahead of November midterm elections.
Trump’s expected tough talk on crime and immigration marks a return to an issue that he hopes will resonate with voters as he faces high‑stakes military decisions and war‑driven economic uncertainty, and tries to redefine his law enforcement record after the tumultuous crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.
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The surge of thousands of federal agents to Memphis, opens new tab started in September. The city had the highest rate of violent crime per capita in the country, according to the FBI, prompting Trump to stand up the Memphis Safe Task Force.
“The city, a beacon of American culture that was Elvis’s home and is often called the birthplace of rock and roll and the blues, should be safe and secure for all of its citizens,” Trump’s order said at the time, mobilizing National Guard troops for patrol, as he did in Washington, DC.
Overall crime is down in Memphis about 43% compared to last year, according to local law enforcement data. The task force said recently it has made close to 7,000 arrests and seized almost 1,100 illegal firearms since the crackdown began.
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POLITICAL PUSH AHEAD OF MIDTERMS
Trump’s top political advisers want him talking about kitchen table issues, but Americans’ affordability concerns and his recent foreign policy pursuits have overshadowed his domestic trips to areas controlled by Republican politicians.
Fuel costs have risen since the U.S. and Israel started attacking Iran on February 28, with oil and gas exports from the Middle East held up by the hostilities. Gas prices in Tennessee are on average up more than $1 per gallon compared to last month, according to travel analyst AAA.
“We’re in a war that we know nothing about, and we really do make a decent salary, but gas is getting too expensive for us,” said Kimberly Jenkins, 55, a hospital administrator visiting Memphis from Houston, Texas.
Republicans hope that highlighting a crime reduction in a large city will help bring the conversation back to political territory that their party has often embraced in the past.
In recent months, Trump’s top immigration officials often cited the Memphis operation — which was welcomed by some of the city’s Democratic officials — as a positive example that stands in contrast with strong-arm immigration enforcement efforts in Minneapolis, which prompted large protests after federal agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens in the city.
“We don’t have this problem” in Memphis, then Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in January after the immigration officers’ second fatal shooting in Minneapolis. But since that time, the president has tried to reset the issue and replaced Noem, told governors he would only surge agents if requested, and directed his officials towards a more “targeted” approach.
The change in tactics could be politically advantageous to Trump’s Republican Party in the November midterm elections, where his conservative party hopes to build on its current slim majorities. About 61% of respondents in a Reuters/Ipsos poll last month — including 92% of Republicans and 35% of Democrats — said they “support deporting unauthorized immigrants” but generally disapprove of the Trump administration’s hard-line tactics.
The night before Trump’s visit to Memphis, residents and tourists on Beale Street, where neon signs emphasize the city’s history of blues and jazz, said they were split on the visible increase of law enforcement.
“The crazy presence of National Guard and ramped-up police is only in the predominant tourist areas,” 33-year-old law student Darius O’Neal said in an interview, questioning Trump’s political motivations for the surge.
But Dewayne Hambrick, a 60-year-old Memphis photographer who considers himself a Democrat, said that while crime still continues, “I think it’s been great that the law enforcement is here.”
Reporting by Bo Erickson; Editing by Sergio Non and Michael Perry
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