德克萨斯州检察官可能对撞伤逃跑男子的移民与海关执法局特工提起指控哈里斯县地方检察官表示,其办公室的调查人员认为,周末导致米格尔·帕拉·埃尔南德斯受伤的事故并非意外。
Texas Prosecutors May Seek Charges Against ICE Agent Who Hit Fleeing Man The Harris County district attorney said investigators from his office did not believe that the crash that left Miguel Parra Hernandez injured over the weekend was accidental.
官员们表示,德克萨斯州检察官正在考虑对一名移民与海关执法局特工提起刑事指控,该特工在周末于休斯顿用车辆撞伤了一名墨西哥建筑工人。
Texas prosecutors are considering criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who struck and injured a Mexican construction worker with a vehicle in Houston over the weekend, officials said.
该工人米格尔·帕拉·埃尔南德斯,48岁,是无证移民。根据协助帕拉·埃尔南德斯家人的移民权利组织FIEL的执行主任塞萨尔·埃斯皮诺萨的说法,他在周六早上开车去上班时,联邦移民当局试图使用无标识车辆将其拦下。
The worker, Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, an undocumented immigrant, was driving to his job on Saturday morning when federal immigration authorities tried to pull him over in unmarked vehicles, according to Cesar Espinosa, the executive director of FIEL, an immigrant rights group assisting Mr. Parra Hernandez’s family.
当帕拉·埃尔南德斯停下车时,他和一名乘客试图逃跑。移民与海关执法局在周六的一份声明中表示,帕拉·埃尔南德斯曾冲到该局一辆车辆前面并被撞到。但附近一家商店的监控录像显示,帕拉·埃尔南德斯和另一名男子正在逃跑,而一辆移民与海关执法局的车辆转过拐角时似乎从后方撞到了帕拉·埃尔南德斯。
When Mr. Parra Hernandez stopped the car, he and a passenger tried to flee. ICE said in a statement on Saturday that Mr. Parra Hernandez had run in front of one of the agency’s vehicles and was struck. But surveillance footage from a nearby business captured Mr. Parra Hernandez and another man running away as an ICE vehicle veered around the corner and appeared to hit Mr. Parra Hernandez from behind.
埃斯皮诺萨表示,帕拉·埃尔南德斯周二仍住院,需要接受多次手术。他补充说,帕拉·埃尔南德斯的一条腿骨折,髋部和脚踝也受伤。移民与海关执法局和国土安全部周二未立即回应置评请求。
He remained hospitalized on Tuesday and will have to undergo multiple surgeries, Mr. Espinosa said. One of his legs was broken, Mr. Espinosa added, and he suffered injuries to his hips and an ankle.
哈里斯县地方检察官肖恩·蒂尔表示,其办公室的调查人员正在将此事作为可能的使用致命武器加重袭击案进行调查。他说,调查人员还认为,撞到帕拉·埃尔南德斯的车辆当时正载着来自之前事件的被拘留人员,而司机本不应追捕这名建筑工人。
ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.
蒂尔表示,联邦特工无视标准调查程序,甚至不顾当地调查人员的反对,强行将ICE的执法车辆从现场移走。哈里斯县地方检察官办公室的调查人员则正在联系周边居民及商户,试图获取更多目击者证词与监控录像。
Sean Teare, the district attorney in Harris County, which includes Houston, said investigators from his office were looking into the incident as a possible aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He said investigators also believed that the vehicle that struck Mr. Parra Hernandez was carrying people detained from an earlier incident and that the driver should not have been pursuing the construction worker.
“执法部门绝不应如此行事,”蒂尔在接受采访时说道,“这些特工以及整个ICE部门在我们辖区内的所作所为完全违背了规范做法,这只会让社区里的每一个人都陷入更危险的境地。”近期,ICE因多次实施交通拦截行动而遭到州及地方官员的严厉批评。这些行动正是特朗普政府今年夏季加大移民逮捕力度的核心手段,部分行动甚至演变成了暴力事件,造成了人员伤亡。
Mr. Teare said that federal agents removed the ICE vehicle from the scene contrary to standard investigation protocol and over the objections of local investigators. Investigators with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office were contacting residents and nearby businesses for additional witness testimony and surveillance footage.
今年9月,一名委内瑞拉男子在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市遭遇交通拦截时被移民执法特工开枪击中。目前该男子已被指控在事件过程中袭击联邦执法人员。这名28岁的男子名叫威尔伯·拉斐尔·加尔塞斯·佩雷斯,子弹在他背部滞留了数日之久。
“That is just not the way that law enforcement behaves,” Mr. Teare said in an interview. “Every step of the way, the behavior of these agents, and of ICE as a whole, on our streets is certainly not best practice. It is making every person in our community less safe.”ICE has faced scrutiny from state and local officials over traffic stops, which have been central to the Trump administration’s escalation of immigration arrests this summer and have at times turned violent or deadly.
休斯敦的地方官员与移民权益保护组织指出,今年7月洛伦佐·萨尔加多·阿劳霍遭杀害的事件至今仍令当地居民心有余悸。阿劳霍是一名建筑公司老板,也是两个孩子的父亲,事发当天他正赶去上班,却遭到多辆无标识的ICE执法车辆尾随。
A Venezuelan man who was shot by an immigration agent during a traffic stop in Austin, Texas, in September has been charged with assaulting a federal officer during that encounter. The man, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, had a bullet lodged in his back for days.
在这两起事件中,ICE均声称其特工当时在追捕另一名嫌疑人。该机构在周六发布的声明中称,特工们试图逮捕的是何塞·门多萨-塞尔万特斯,这名墨西哥籍移民此前已被下达驱逐令,还曾因酒驾及非法持有枪支遭到逮捕。
Local officials and immigrant rights groups in Houston said residents were still shaken over the July killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father and owner of a construction business who had also been on his way to work when he was followed by unmarked ICE vehicles.
ICE称,特工们发现门多萨-塞尔万特斯试图钻进帕拉·埃尔南德斯的车辆后便试图拦截该车。目前该机构表示,门多萨-塞尔万特斯仍下落不明。
In both cases, ICE said its officers were searching for a different person. In its statement on Saturday, ICE said that agents were trying to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, a Mexican immigrant with a deportation order and prior arrests for driving under the influence and the unlawful possession of a firearm.
金·布鲁诺(Kim Bruno)是帕拉·埃尔南德斯(Mr. Parra Hernandez)的律师,她和埃斯皮诺萨(Mr. Espinosa)表示,帕拉·埃尔南德斯和其他目击者对这一说法提出异议,认为门多萨-塞万特斯(Mr. Mendoza-Cervantes)当时并不在车内,帕拉·埃尔南德斯也不认识他。
ICE said that agents spotted him climbing into Mr. Parra Hernandez’s vehicle before they tried to stop the vehicle. Mr. Mendoza-Cervantes has not been found, the agency said.
周三的新闻发布会上,埃斯皮诺萨举出了ICE一直在寻找的男子的照片,以及帕拉·埃尔南德斯同车乘客的照片。乘客的脸部部分被遮挡。埃斯皮诺萨说,这两个人长相并不相似。
Kim Bruno, Mr. Parra Hernandez’s lawyer, and Mr. Espinosa said that Mr. Parra Hernandez and other witnesses disputed that account, arguing that Mr. Mendoza-Cervantes was not in the vehicle and that Mr. Parra Hernandez did not know him.
尼迪亚·德尔芬(Nidia Delfín)告诉记者,她的哥哥路易斯·德尔芬(Luis Delfín)曾被铐在撞上帕拉·埃尔南德斯的ICE面包车后座。她表示,她和哥哥从未见过或认识门多萨-塞万特斯。
During a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Espinosa held up a photo of the man ICE had been looking for and another photo of the passenger in the car with Mr. Parra Hernandez. The passenger’s face was partially obscured. Mr. Espinosa said the men did not resemble each other.
“我希望大家知道,我哥哥不是罪犯,”她说,并补充说他正在经营一家小企业,并且正在申请绿卡。
Nidia Delfín told reporters that her brother, Luis Delfín, had been handcuffed in the back of the ICE van that rammed over Mr. Parra Hernandez. Neither she nor her brother had ever seen or known Mr. Mendoza-Cervantes, she said.
罗德里戈·帕拉(Rodolfo Parra),34岁,是帕拉·埃尔南德斯的哥哥。他说,他的哥哥在医院里一直被参与他逮捕的同一批ICE特工监视着。
“I want everybody to know that my brother is not a criminal,” she said, adding that he was a small-business owner and in the process of getting a green card.
在一次采访中,帕拉表示,他的家人希望为哥哥伸张正义。哥哥说,直到一位朋友帮忙在医院找到他之前,家人一直以为他已经死了。
Rodolfo Parra, 34, Mr. Parra Hernandez’s brother, said his brother was being watched at the hospital by the same ICE agents involved in his arrest.
帕拉·埃尔南德斯是墨西哥普埃布拉州人,他的哥哥说,他自20世纪90年代初作为青少年首次来到美国后,一直居住在休斯顿。在他被ICE拦截之前,他从未被移民当局拦下过,除了几张交通罚单外,没有任何犯罪记录,他的亲戚和移民律师这样说。
In an interview, Mr. Parra said his family wanted justice for his brother. The family believed he was dead until a friend helped find him at the hospital, the brother said.
帕拉(哥哥)说,他和家人曾因新闻报道中关于萨尔加多-阿拉胡乔(Mr. Salgado Araujo)的内容而感到悲伤。“我们从未想过自己会陷入类似的境地,”他说。“我们也不愿这种事发生在任何人身上。”
Mr. Parra Hernandez, a native of the Mexican state of Puebla, has lived in Houston since he first made his way to the United States as a teenager in the early 1990s, his brother said. He had not been stopped by immigration authorities before and had no criminal record other than a few traffic tickets, his relatives and immigration lawyer said.
雅兹敏·乌洛亚(Jazmine Ulloa)是《纽约时报》的全国记者,负责报道移民问题。
Mr. Parra, the brother, said he and his family had watched the news reports about Mr. Salgado Araujo with sadness. “We never thought we would be in a similar situation,” he said. “We don’t wish this on anyone.”Jazmine Ulloa is a national reporter covering immigration for The Times.