政府使用“无人陪伴未成年人”这一术语来指代没有父母陪同抵达美国的儿童。但如果一个孩子本来有父母，却被移民特工带走，该怎么称呼他？被“无人陪伴”了？被“分离”了？还是被“绑架”了？
The government uses the term “unaccompanied minors” to refer to kids who arrive in the United States without a parent. But what do you call a child who had a parent until immigration agents took them away? Rendered unaccompanied? Separated? Kidnapped? According to new reporting from Mother Jones those children now make up a “huge chunk” of caseloads inside one government child welfare organization.
根据《母亲琼斯》的最新报道，这些孩子如今占据了某个政府儿童福利机构案件量的“很大一部分”。就像一名11岁男孩，被从父亲身边硬生生地拉走，随后被送入一个专门接收独自抵达美国儿童的系统。
Like one 11-year-old who was ripped away from his father and sent into a system meant for children who arrive in this country all alone.
路易斯告诉《母亲琼斯》，他觉得移民与海关执法局（ICE）欺骗了他，他认为ICE“绑架”了他的儿子。
Luis felt like ICE tricked him, telling Mother Jones he believed ICE “kidnapped” his son.
正如《母亲琼斯》所报道的，安德烈斯和他的父亲路易斯是在2023年从委内瑞拉来到美国的（该媒体为保护父子隐私，使用了化名）。今年4月，当联邦特工在他们住所外将他们拘留时，这对父子被移民与海关执法局收押。
As Mother Jones reported, Andrés and his father, Luis, came to America back in 2023 from Venezuela (the outlet used pseudonyms for the father and son to protect their privacy). This past April, the two were taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody when federal agents apprehended them outside their home.
他们最初被送往德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的一个拘留设施。但有一天深夜，大约午夜时分，当他们正坐在牢房里时，ICE特工进入并把安德烈斯从他父亲身边带走。路易斯告诉《母亲琼斯》，特工告诉他，他很快就会收到儿子的消息。
They were initially sent to a holding facility in El Paso, Texas. But one night, around midnight, as they were sitting in their cell, ICE agents entered and pulled Andrés from his father. Luis told Mother Jones that the agents said he would hear from his son soon.
但根据报道，路易斯过了几天才得知安德烈斯被关押在何处。原来安德烈斯被转移到了难民安置办公室（ORR），该机构并非由国土安全部运营，而是由卫生与公众服务部管理。
But it would take days for him to learn where Andrés was, according to the report. It turns out he had been transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, or the ORR, which is operated not by the Homeland Security Department but by the Department of Health and Human Services.
ORR的职责是照顾移民儿童。正如《母亲琼斯》所指出的，“过去……ORR照管下的大多数无人陪伴未成年人是那些自己独自越过美墨边境的孩子——不是那些随父母到达并在该国生活多年的孩子。安德烈斯从未无人陪伴，但ICE却令人困惑地将他标记为无人陪伴。因此，路易斯得知，ORR会把他安置在另一个德克萨斯州家庭的临时寄养照顾下。” 代表安德烈斯的律师对《母亲琼斯》表示，这名11岁男孩感到被背叛。
ORR is meant to care for migrant kids. As Mother Jones noted, “In the past … most unaccompanied minors in ORR custody were children who had recently crossed the US-Mexico border by themselves — not kids who arrived with a parent and had been living in the country for years. Andrés was never unaccompanied, but ICE confusingly labeled him that way. As a result, Luis learned, ORR would place him in temporary foster care with another Texas family.”A lawyer who represented Andrés told Mother Jones that the 11-year-old felt betrayed.
他问道：“‘政府在撒谎。我让他们让我和爸爸在一起，他们却把我们带到一个地方，我们被分开了。’” 路易斯也觉得ICE欺骗了他，他对《母亲琼斯》说，他认为ICE“绑架”了他的儿子。
“He was saying, ‘The government lied to me. I asked them to be with my dad, and they took us to a place, and we were separated.’”And Luis felt like ICE tricked him, telling Mother Jones he believed ICE had “kidnapped” his son.
当被问及政府是否在“绑架”移民儿童的指控时，DHS未对MS NOW作出回应，而一位发言人对《母亲琼斯》表示，“ICE不会分离家庭。” 但曾在拜登政府期间担任ORR副局长的詹·斯迈尔斯持不同意见。她告诉《母亲琼斯》，特朗普政府正在“绑架人们的孩子，并将他们关押在政府监护之下”。她说她相信这是“长期愿景”的一部分，旨在“确保没有人再把孩子送到美国”。与其留在寄养家庭，安德烈斯最终请求移民法官允许他返回委内瑞拉，与他的生母团聚。
Asked about claims that the administration is “kidnapping”immigrant children DHS did not respond to MS NOW, and a spokesperson told Mother Jones that “ICE does not separate families.”But Jen Smyers, who served as the ORR’s deputy director during the Biden administration, disagreed. She told Mother Jones that the Trump administration was “kidnapping people’s kids and keeping them in government custody.”She said she believed it was part of a “longer-term vision” to “make sure no one ever sends their kids to the U.S. again.”Rather than stay in foster care, Andrés eventually asked an immigration judge to let him go back to Venezuela to be with his biological mother.
安德烈斯和路易斯的故事表明，残酷本身就是目的——这一点一直如此。而他们的经历并非独特；如今，这正成为全国各地家庭反复经历的噩梦，悄然演变成我亲眼目睹的特朗普首任期期间所见情况的放大版。在2024年电影《分离》中，（内容基于我同名著作）乔纳森·怀特上尉是一名职业公务员，曾在特朗普第一任期内负责管理美国边境及移民管理局的无人陪伴儿童救助项目。他回顾道，该项目后来被特朗普及其顾问斯蒂芬·米勒掌控，用以推行其严苛的移民管控政策。
Andrés and Luis’ story shows that, yet again, the cruelty is the point— it always has been. And their experience isn’t unique; it’s a repeated nightmare for families across the country right now, one that is quietly becoming a supersized version of what I saw firsthand during Trump’s first term. In the 2024 film“Separated”(based on my book of the same name), Capt. Jonathan White, a career civil servant who managed ORR’s unaccompanied children program during the first Trump administration, reflected on how the program had been taken over, he said, by Trump and his adviser Stephen Miller to carry out their immigration crackdown.
“然而，强制拆散家庭的行为针对的并非无人陪伴的儿童，而是那些有父母陪同的孩子，”他解释道。“我曾参与运作的这个无人陪伴儿童救助项目，实际上被滥用于一个法律从未授权、也完全违背其初衷的目的。该项目原本旨在帮助那些独自进入美国的儿童，结果却成了将孩子从父母身边夺走的工具。”如今，类似情况再度发生。只不过这次并非发生在边境地区，而是遍布全国各地的社区之中。特朗普正利用无人陪伴儿童救助项目来拆散家庭——MS NOW
“Family separation, though, was not about unaccompanied children; it was about accompanied children — children with their family,” he explained. “And the unaccompanied program for children, which I worked in, was essentially hijacked for a purpose for which it was never intended nor authorized in law. It was a program designed to be a program for children who entered the United States without parents and it was instead used as a tool to take children from their parents.”Now it’s happening all over again. This time not at the border, but in communities all across this country. The post Trump is using a program for unaccompanied children to separate families MS NOW