阿里斯蒂德斯·费尔南德斯-加西亚（左）与亚斯马尼·莫雷诺-德阿马斯于2026年7月30日被驱逐至中非共和国。
Arístides Fernandez-Garcia (left) and Yasmany Moreno-De Armas were deported to the Central African Republic on July 30, 2026.
迈阿密讯——85岁的何塞·迪亚兹从未向自己的侄外孙提出过任何要求。
Yasmany Moreno-De Armas MIAMI — José Díaz, 85, had never asked his grand-nephew for a single thing.
但去年年底，他注意到前来新泽西探望他的阿里斯蒂德斯·费尔南德斯-加西亚戴着一顶棒球帽，他很喜欢那顶帽子。
But late last year, he noticed the baseball cap Arístides Fernandez-Garcia was wearing on his visit to New Jersey. He liked it.
费尔南德斯-加西亚暗下决心：等从迈阿密参加完自己正在申请的庇护听证会后，就把那顶帽子送给这位叔公。然而他始终没有机会这么做。
Fernandez-Garcia promised himself that he'd give his great-uncle the cap after returning from a Miami hearing in his pending asylum case. He never got the chance.
1月6日，身为古巴移民的费尔南德斯-加西亚在迈阿密法院的一场针对性执法行动中被美国移民与海关执法局逮捕。
On Jan. 6 Fernandez-Garcia, a Cuban immigrant, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a targeted operation at the courthouse in Miami.
他向NPR电台透露，在辗转于美国各地的拘留中心期间，他体重骤减60磅，还目睹了种种骇人听闻的暴力事件，但始终牢记着自己的承诺。后来叔公生病了，费尔南德斯-加西亚在拘留所里给他打电话。
He told NPR that as he moved through a maze of detention centers across the U.S., losing 60 pounds and witnessing shocking violence, he held hard onto his promise. When his great-uncle got sick, Fernandez-Garcia called him from detention.
“我会对他说：‘要坚强啊，我一定要把帽子送给你。’”费尔南德斯-加西亚回忆道。那位老人总会笑着回应。
"I would tell him: 'Stay strong, because I have to give you the hat,'" Fernandez-Garcia recalled. The old man would laugh.
八个月后，费尔南德斯-加西亚坐在中非共和国一处公寓的客厅里。他心情十分矛盾：既因给叔公带来希望而心生愧疚，又下定决心要履行自己的诺言。
Eight months later, Fernandez-Garcia sits in the living room of an apartment in the Central African Republic. He feels torn: guilty for giving Díaz hope, but resolved, nevertheless, to keep his promise.
谈及叔公时他说道：“在他遭遇不测之前，这是我人生中必须完成的事。我一定要把那顶帽子送给他。”据特朗普政府称，费尔南德斯-加西亚属于2.5万多名被遣返回原籍国或毫无关联国家的移民。9月18日，联邦上诉法院裁定这种“第三国遣返”政策违反了正当程序原则，指出相关移民并未获得足够的通知，也没有充分机会表达自己害怕被遣往他国的顾虑。9月24日，特朗普政府就此裁决向最高法院提起上诉。
"That is something I have to do in life before anything else happens to him," he says about his great-uncle. "I have to give him that hat." Fernandez-Garcia is among the more than 25,000 people the Trump administration says it has deported to countries to which they have no ties. On Sept. 18, a federal appeals court ruled this "third country deportation" policy violates due process The court said migrants weren't given enough notice or a meaningful chance to say they were afraid to be sent to another country. On Sept. 24, the Trump administration appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court.
美国国土安全部在给NPR的声明中称：“将非法入境者遣送至第三国是一项重要的公共安全举措，有助于将最危险的犯罪分子从美国街头清除。”然而NPR并未查到佛罗里达州对费尔南德斯-加西亚及其室友亚斯马尼·诺埃尔·莫雷诺-德阿马斯的任何刑事指控记录；后者同样是古巴移民，也被美国驱逐出境。费尔南德斯-加西亚也并未收到任何驱逐令。两人均表示，他们不敢放心返回古巴。
“我曾乘木筏逃离古巴，还试图借助‘湿脚干脚政策’获得保护从而进入美国，因此恐怕会遭到古巴政权的惩罚，”莫雷诺-德阿马斯说道。
In a statement to NPR, the Department of Homeland Security said "Third country removals are an essential public safety tool that remove the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our streets." But NPR found no record of criminal charges in Florida against either Fernandez-Garcia or his roommate, Yasmany Noel Moreno-De Armas, who is also a Cuban immigrant deported by the U.S. Fernandez-Garcia didn't have a deportation order either. Both men say they don't feel safe returning to Cuba. "I face punishment from the Cuban regime for having been a balsero — someone who fled Cuba by raft — and for trying to avail myself of the 'wet foot, dry foot' policy and enter the United States under that protection," said Moreno-De Armas.
国土安全部称，被遣送至第三国的人员会在离境前收到相关通知并获得安全保障承诺。该部门还表示，美国移民与海关执法局会从目的地国家获取外交保证，确保被遣送人员抵达后能够平安无虞。
DHS says people being deported to third countries receive "notice and assurances prior to their removal." DHS added that ICE obtains diplomatic assurances from destination countries that once people are deported they will be safe after they arrive.
但这两人均称，在登上德克萨斯州的飞机时，他们根本不知道自己将被送往何处。如今身处中非共和国的费尔南德斯-加西亚向NPR展示：当时他双手被铐在一起，还被链条拴在腰间的腰带上，就这样在飞机上坐了12个小时。他说，直到飞机降落、他望向窗外才看到一面旗帜——那面旗帜由绿、黄、红三色条纹组成，中央还有一颗绿色星星。他这才意识到，那是塞内加尔的国旗，他们现在身处非洲。
But both men said they didn't know where they were going when they boarded the plane in Texas. From his shared apartment in the Central African Republic, Fernandez-Garcia showed NPR how he sat on the plane for 12 hours, his hands shackled together and chained to a belt around his waist. It wasn't until they landed and he looked out the window, he says, that he saw a flag. It was striped green, yellow and red, with a green star in the center. That's the flag of Senegal, he realized. They were in Africa.
“我的大脑一片空白，”费尔南德斯-加西亚说道，“我愣住了，因为我意识到自己的生活已不再由自己掌控，我完全无法控制自己的命运。现在依然如此。”这两名男子表示，在中非共和国他们毫无安全感。美国国务院曾警告本国公民切勿前往该国，称当地存在绑架、地雷及恐怖主义等风险。隶属于联合国的国际移民组织正在为这些被驱逐者提供保护。
"My mind just went blank," said Fernandez-Garcia. "I went blank because I realized that my life was out of my hands, like I didn't have control over my own life anymore. I still don't." The men say they don't feel safe in the Central African Republic, a country the State Department warns Americans not to visit, citing risks of kidnapping, landmines and terrorism. The International Organization for Migration, a group affiliated with the United Nations, is providing protection for the deportees. Armed guards accompany them whenever they leave the complex. The IOM is also providing housing in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.
每当他们离开安置点，都会有武装警卫随行。该组织还在中非共和国首都班吉为他们提供住所，每间公寓里住着四名被驱逐者。费尔南德斯-加西亚与莫雷诺-德阿马斯同住一间卧室。
The deportees live four to an apartment. Fernandez-Garcia and Moreno-De Armas share a bedroom. Their building neighbors a small market: low-slung buildings with concrete walls and corrugated-metal roofs. The road is unpaved and often muddy. They shop there twice a week for canned goods and water.
他们所住的楼房旁边有个小市场：那些建筑低矮，墙壁为混凝土结构，屋顶则铺着波纹金属板。道路并未铺设，常常泥泞不堪。他们每周两次去那里购买罐头食品和饮用水。电力恢复时，这些男子会通过WhatsApp与家人通话、接受记者采访，还会制作社交媒体视频来讲述自己的遭遇。他们希望这些努力能帮助他们重返美国。有时，观众也会捐款，帮助他们购买公寓所需的物品以及手机通话时长。
When the power is on, the men talk to their families on WhatsApp, do interviews with reporters and make social media videos trying to get their story out. Maybe that will help them return to the U.S., they think. Sometimes, viewers donate money. It helps them buy supplies for their shared apartment and minutes on their phones. But two months after arriving, both men remain in limbo, unsure of their legal status or what comes next. "We don't have documents that would allow us to work. They haven't given us a visa," said Moreno-De Armas. "We were deported from the United States to a third country and we're still detained."
然而抵达两个月后，两人仍处于不确定状态，既不清楚自己的法律身份，也不知道未来会怎样。
Both men have gotten sick in Bangui. Fernandez-Garcia with malaria, which kept him weak in bed for days.
“我们没有能用来工作的证件，也没拿到签证，”莫雷诺-德阿马斯说道，“我们被从美国驱逐到第三国，现在仍被扣留着。”两人在班吉都生过病：费尔南德斯-加西亚患上了疟疾，卧床数日虚弱不堪；莫雷诺-德阿马斯则出现高血压、呼吸急促的症状，听说母亲住院后还出现了惊恐发作。不过对他们影响最大的并非身体上的痛苦，而是时间的流逝。
Moreno-De Armas with high blood pressure, shortness of breath, and panic attacks when he heard his mother was in the hospital. But what affects them most isn't the physical toll. It's time. "Time with family, time with those people who have less time left, no, no, that can never be recovered again," said Fernandez-Garcia. "Not even with millions of dollars can that be recovered or bought." The men know other "third country deportees" who have been in Africa for a long time. Like Roberto Mosquera, who has been imprisoned in Eswatini for over a year.
“与家人共度的时光，与那些时日无多的人相处的时光，这些都是再也无法挽回的，”费尔南德斯-加西亚说道，“就算花上数百万美元也买不回这些时光。”这些男子还认识其他一些被遣送到非洲的“第三国遣返者”，比如罗伯托·莫斯克拉，他已在斯威士兰被监禁了一年多。
"This is all I do. Walk outside. Come back in. Fix some food. Lay down. Think," said Mosquera from his prison cell in Matsapha Correctional Complex, a high security prison.
“我每天就做这些事：出门走走，回来后弄点吃的，躺下休息，然后胡思乱想，”莫斯克拉在斯威士兰戒备森严的马察法监狱的牢房里说道，“你会想起自己的孩子，想起以前的生活，想起那些被夺走的一切。”莫斯克拉有犯罪记录，也已在美国服完刑。不过据他的律师阿尔玛·戴维德称，他在斯威士兰并未受到任何刑事指控。莫斯克拉也不清楚自己何时能获释。入狱后，他在美国的大姐和挚友相继离世，他还将错过女儿的婚礼。
"You think about your kids, that life that you had before, the life that they took from you." Mosquera has a criminal record and has already served his time in the U.S. But according to his lawyer, Alma David, he has no criminal charges in Eswatini. Mosquera also doesn't know if and when he'll be released. Since he's been imprisoned, his oldest sister died in America. So did his best friend. He's also going to miss his daughter's wedding. "My youngest one's going to be the flower girl," said Mosquera. He looks away from the screen and sighs.
“我的小女儿本来要当花童的，”莫斯克拉说着，移开视线，叹了口气，“太艰难了。我没想到在自己这个年纪还会遭遇这种事。”德莫雷诺-德阿马斯的父亲接到儿子被遣送到非洲的消息后，感觉“天都塌下来了”。如今，希奥瓦尼·莫雷诺·诺亚正坐在佛罗里达州南部的自家后院里，紧锁的眉头间布满了深深的忧虑。
"It's rough. I didn't expect this to happen at my age." When de Moreno-De Armas' father got a call from his son that he had been deported to Africa, he felt like "the world fell on top of me," he says. Hiovany Moreno Noa sits in the backyard of his home in South Florida. Thick worry lines stretch across his forehead. "If at least he were in a Spanish-speaking country, with more or less the same customs as us, then we could be a little more at ease," he says.
“要是他至少待在一个说西班牙语、风俗习惯和我们相近的国家，我们还能稍微安心些，”他说道，“可在那里我们一无所知。仅有的了解就是那是个饱受战乱、极其危险的国家。”莫雷诺·诺亚每天都会试着和儿子通话，还通过西联汇款尽可能给他寄钱，为他祈祷。可这种分离实在令人痛苦。
"But there, we don't know anything. The little we do know is that it's a country that has been at war. It's a very dangerous country." Moreno Noa tries to talk to his son every day. He sends what money he can though Western Union. He prays for him. But the separation is hard.
多年前，莫雷诺-德阿马斯乘木筏逃离古巴，此后过了好几年才与家人重聚。他们最终于2022年团聚。
After Moreno-De Armas fled Cuba on a raft, years passed before he saw his family. They reunited in 2022.
“我们有六年时间没见过面。后来我们来到这个国家，可现在又被迫分离了，”他说。“每个父母都渴望孩子能陪在自己身边。这正是我们痛苦的原因。”9月29日，最高法院暂停了上诉法院的裁决，为特朗普政府继续执行第三国驱逐政策扫清了道路，而法律纠纷仍在持续。
"We went six years without seeing each other. Then we came to this country, and now we're being separated again," he said. "Every parent longs to have their children beside them. And that's why we suffer." On Sept. 29, the Supreme Court put the appeal court's ruling on hold, clearing the way for the Trump administration to continue third-country deportations while the legal battle plays out.
在埃斯瓦蒂尼，莫斯克拉仍然梦想着有一天能离开非洲，回到家人身边。在中非共和国，莫雷诺-德阿尔马斯也并未放弃希望，尽管最近的一次宵禁让他和室友们在室内被困了三天。“我们正在等待上帝给予我们重返美国的机会，”他说。
In Eswatini, Mosquera still dreams about the day he can leave Africa and return to his family. In the Central African Republic, Moreno-De Armas hasn't given up hope either, despite a recent curfew that kept him and his roommates indoors for three days. "We're waiting for God to give us the opportunity to return to the United States," he says.
费尔南德斯-加西亚却没那么确定。他说，希望确实存在，但希望也很容易消失。他仍然爱着美国。
Fernandez-Garcia is not so sure. Hope exists, he says. But it disappears very easily. He still loves America.
“我人生中第一次感受到自由是什么滋味。我也第一次感受到梦想的力量——逃离古巴独裁统治的封闭环境，”费尔南德斯-加西亚谈到美国时说道。“你不能仅凭某个特定时刻来评判一个国家。”但随后，他想到自己在新泽西州的曾叔叔，他正和曾姑妈住在一起。就像祖父母一样，他们曾在费尔南德斯-加西亚年幼时照顾过他。如今，他觉得自己该轮到照顾他们了，让他们不再那么孤单。他曾经有过计划：和他们一起在中央公园散步，看着阳光在泽西海岸的水面上闪烁。
"I felt what freedom was like for the first time in my life. I felt what it was to dream for the first time in my life, to leave the Cuban bubble of the dictatorship," Fernandez-Garcia said about the U.S. "You can't judge a country by one particular moment." But then he thinks about his great-uncle in New Jersey, who lives with his great-aunt. Like grandparents, they had taken care of him in his youth. Now, he thought, it was his turn to take care of them, help them feel less lonely. He had plans. Walking with them in Central Park. Watching the sun reflect on the surface of the Jersey Shore.
“他们已经年事已高，我觉得自己陪伴他们的时间不多了，”费尔南德斯-加西亚哽咽着说。“也许在他们去世时，我都不在身边。”在新泽西州的家中，玛莎·皮埃德拉正为她的曾侄子而悲伤。
"They are older people, and I feel that I have little time left with them," said Fernandez-Garcia, choking back tears. "And maybe I'm not going to be there when they pass away." At her home in New Jersey, Martha Piedra grieves for her great-nephew.
“我已经79岁，还患有许多疾病，你想象一下。我还能做些什么呢？我什么都做不了，”她说着，声音逐渐被泪水淹没。
"I'm an old woman of 79 years with a whole lot of illnesses, so just imagine. What am I going to be able to do? I can't do anything," she says, her words dissolving into tears.
电话那头，他叔祖父的声音显得十分颤抖。他记得费尔南德斯-加西亚的那顶棒球帽，以及他从拘留所打来的电话；他还记得他的孙子曾承诺会送给他那顶帽子——那是一顶印有白色道奇Ram标志的黑色棒球帽，虽然很普通，但在其他地方却根本买不到。“我希望他有一天能来把那顶帽子带给我，”迪亚兹说道。皮德拉纠正了他：“不，不是‘有一天’，而是‘请尽快’吧。”
On the phone, his great-uncle's voice trembles. He remembers Fernandez-Garcia's cap and his calls from detention. He remembers the promises his grand-nephew made to gift it to him: a black baseball cap with a white Dodge Ram logo on it. Simple, but impossible to find elsewhere. "I hope that he comes and brings it to me someday," says Díaz. Piedra corrects him. "No, not someday. Please," she says. "Let it be soon."