周一早上，美国国土安全部调查局（Homeland Security Investigations，美国移民和海关执法局的一个部门）特工突袭了明尼苏达州民主党众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔（Ilhan Omar）在华盛顿特区的住所。接受《拦截者》（The Intercept）采访的官员提出质疑，认为此次突袭可能具有政治性质。
After agents with Homeland Security Investigations, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, raided the Washington, D.C., home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Monday morning, officials who spoke to The Intercept raised questions about whether the raid was political in nature.
尽管有消息称对奥马尔的调查已经持续多年，但一名负责移民执法的ICE官员表示，此次突袭的时机引发了质疑。
Though the investigation into Omar has reportedly been ongoing for years, an ICE official working in immigration enforcement suggested the timing of the raid raised questions.
“这位女士一直是特朗普政府眼中的刺，”该ICE官员在接受《拦截者》采访时表示，出于保护生计的考虑，要求匿名。“此次行动肯定是出于政治动机。”该官员还说，此次突袭是ICE内部多名官员向《拦截者》透露的一系列举措中的最新一环 — — 包括政策变动、广泛开展的行动，以及在奥马尔案中的特定行动 — — 这些举措反映出ICE正在匆忙行动，以帮助提升共和党在11月中期选举中的前景。
“She’s always been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration,” said the ICE official, who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity to protect their livelihood. “This has to be politically motivated.”The raid is the latest of what several officials inside ICE told The Intercept were a series of moves — policy changes, sweeping initiatives, and, in Omar’s case, a specific operation — that reflect a scramble to help lift Republicans’ dimming prospects in November’s midterm elections.
上个月，ICE采取了一系列措施，如取消车辆检查培训、宣布在庇护城市开展突击行动，以及先冻结后又快速解冻非刑事驱逐 — — 一名官员称之为“中期选举惊慌举动”。分析人士指出，这些带有政治色彩的行动正在迅速削弱执法机构在美国许多民众中的声誉。
In the last month, ICE has undertaken steps like removing vehicle stop training, announcing surges into sanctuary cities, and freezing then quickly unfreezing non-criminal deportations — what one official called a “midterm panic move.”According to analysts, these politically charged moves are rapidly degrading the reputation of law enforcement agencies among many Americans.
在特朗普政府期间，我们看到他们将执法用于公开的政治目的，常常直接针对蓝州或蓝州政客的行为。”美国移民委员会的政策分析员兼高级研究员亚伦·赖赫林-梅尔尼克说。“这确实对执法的声誉造成了重大挑战，因为我们看到如此多与此相关的问题，其中有指控称存在这些公开的政治行为。”有报道将对奥马尔住所的突袭与她的移民文件联系起来——她于1995年作为难民抵达美国，五年后入籍——但一位熟悉此事的第二名ICE官员对这一解释提出质疑。
“Throughout the Trump administration, we have seen them use law enforcement for overtly political purposes, often directly targeting blue states or blue politicians for their actions” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst and senior fellow at the American Immigration Council. “This is something that has really been a significant challenge for the reputation of law enforcement, because we have seen so many issues along these lines where there are allegations of these overtly political actions.”Reporting had linked the raid on Omar’s home immigration paperwork — she arrived in the U.S. as a refugee in 1995 and naturalized five years later — but a second ICE official familiar with the matter questioned that explanation.
“还有其他因素，必须有其他指控来支持逮捕令的成立，因为法官不会签署超过诉讼时效的文件，”这位官员说，他隶属于国土安全部调查局，该部门是ICE负责实施此次突袭的部门，他还在匿名条件下接受了《拦截者》的采访。
“There is something more than that, there have to be other charges for the substantiation of the warrant because a judge wouldn’t sign something beyond statute of limitations,” said the official, who is with Homeland Security Investigations, the arm of ICE that carried out the raid, who also spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity.
《纽约邮报》的一篇文章暗示，此次调查可能与奥马尔在2019年刚进入国会后试图在明尼苏达州议会图书馆更正其出生年份的努力有关。
An article in the New York Post suggested the investigation might be related to an effort by Omar in 2019, just after she arrived in Congress, to correct her birth year in a Minnesota state legislature library.
根据司法部网站的信息，与公民身份相关的犯罪的诉讼时效为10年。但根据赖赫林-梅尔尼克的说法，民事去籍程序没有诉讼时效限制，但必须满足一定条件。
The statute of limitations for crimes related to citizenship, according to a Justice Department website, is 10 years. Civil denaturalization proceedings do not have a statute of limitations, but must meet certain conditions, according to Reichlin-Melnick.
“要对某人实施民事去籍，”赖赫林-梅尔尼克说，“政府必须证明该人要么犯有欺诈行为，要么一开始就不具备入籍资格。”根据ICE内部人士的说法，这些据称受中期选举驱动的行动正在机构内部造成混乱和困惑——并在员工中滋生怨恨。
“In order to subject someone to civil denaturalization,” Reichlin-Melnick said, “the government has must prove either that the person committed fraud or that they were ineligible for naturalization in the first place.”According to accounts from inside ICE, the moves, allegedly motivated by the midterms, are creating chaos and confusion inside the agency — and fostering resentment among employees.
“我们是受过高度训练的特工，本应专注于处理儿童剥削和人口贩卖案件，却被当作政府内部权谋中的棋子来使用，”国土安全部调查局的一名官员表示，谈及该机构偏离其传统工作重点的转变。“我认为目前该机构所发生的一切都与中期选举有关，旨在挑起分裂的火焰。”根据首位国土安全部调查局官员的说法，联邦特工在9月初被指令在九个州开展刑事选举欺诈调查后，政治动机的行动在国土安全部调查局内部开始升级。
“We are highly trained agents who should be working child exploitation and trafficking cases, instead we are being used as pawns in our administration’s games,” said the Homeland Security Investigations official, touching on a shift away from the ICE branch’s traditional areas of focus. “I think everything happening with the agency right now is related to the midterms and to stoke divisive fires.”Politically motivated operations started ramping up inside Homeland Security Investigations after federal agents were ordered to pursue a criminal voter fraud probe across nine states in early September, according to the first ICE official.
“选举欺诈调查只是低效且荒谬，”该官员说。“在甚至还没有证据可向他们出示之前，就挨家挨户地敲门询问人们关于投票的问题，这根本就是个不切实际的开端。”该官员补充道，“将整个员工队伍数周用于此类工作，而不是进行真正的刑事调查，纯属浪费时间。”随着中期选举临近，围绕国土安全部调查局的新争议不断涌现，促使政府通过一系列混乱的政策调整和公开声明作出回应。
“The voter fraud initiative was just inefficient and ridiculous,” the official said. “Knocking on doors to question people about voting before you even have evidence to present to them is a non-starter.”The official added, “Directing your entire workforce to do that for weeks instead of real criminal investigations is a waste of time.”With the midterms themselves approaching, fresh controversies engulfed ICE, prompting the administration to react with a string of messy policy changes and public announcements.
在选举欺诈调查进行期间，因国土安全部调查局另一个部门——执行与驱逐行动处（ERO）的移民官员在2022年9月20日于得克萨斯州奥斯汀的一次交通拦截中枪击并击伤一名28岁的委内瑞拉男子，公众愤怒随之爆发。
As the voter fraud investigations were underway, public backlash erupted after immigration officers from ICE’s other division, Enforcement and Removal Operations, or ERO, shot and wounded a 28-year-old Venezuelan man during a traffic stop in Austin, Texas, on September 20.
随后，在9月25日的周末，国土安全部调查局领导层悄然下达内部指令，要求全国范围内的移民执法进行重大改革。该指令要求所有驱逐官员停止逮捕没有犯罪记录的无证移民。右翼媒体《每日电讯 wire》曝光该指令后，国土安全部——国土安全部调查局的母机构——予以否认。
Days later, on the weekend of September 25, ICE leadership quietly issued internal orders for a major change that would overhaul nationwide immigration enforcement. The orders directed all deportation officers to stop arresting undocumented immigrants without criminal histories. After news of the orders broke in the right-wing Daily Wire, the Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency, denied the story.
尽管有此否认，遍布全国的美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）官员向《拦截者》透露，这些命令是合法的，并且持续了近一周。
Despite the denial, ICE officials operating across the country told The Intercept that the orders were legitimate and stayed in place for nearly a week.
“我们恢复到了拜登时代的执法方式，”一名执法与遣返行动部门的官员表示，他被命令停止对所有非刑事移民的逮捕，包括那些持有移民法官驱逐令的移民。“国土安全部否认了这一点，但这些命令仍然有效持续了4-5天，我们也一直在执行。”另一名同样要求匿名的遣返官员将这些命令描述为对奥斯汀ICE枪击事件的“中期恐慌举措”。
“We reverted back to Biden-era enforcement,” said one official with Enforcement and Removal Operations, who was ordered to stop all arrest of non-criminal immigrants, including those who had standing deportation orders from immigration judges. “The DHS denied it but the orders stayed in place for 4-5 days and we followed them.”Another deportation officer, who also asked for anonymity, described the orders as a “midterm panic move” in response to the ICE shooting in Austin.
“我们的FODS”——即现场办公室主任——“通过我们的团队群聊和口头传达告诉我们，要避免让媒体知道，这从未以书面形式出现。我认为领导层在奥斯汀枪击事件后想要收敛一下，但命令被泄露了，结果适得其反。”
“Our FODS” — field office directors — “told us through our team group chats and word-of-mouth to keep it out of the press, it was never in writing. I think leadership wanted to dial things back after the Austin shooting, but the orders got leaked and it backfired.”
就在泄露和否认发生的同一天，国土安全部似乎通过宣布在“庇护城市”开展“全国公共安全行动”，针对“犯罪非法移民”，采取了更为强硬的公开立场。10月1日，即停止命令发布一周后，《华盛顿考察家报》报道了另一份泄露的国土安全部指南，该指南宣布了对ICE车辆停靠政策的正式修订。
On the same day as the leak and denial, the Department of Homeland Security seemed to take a harder public line by announcing a “nationwide public safety surge in sanctuary cities” targeting “criminal illegal aliens.”On October 1, a week after the stand-down order, the Washington Examiner reported on another leaked DHS guidance that announced the formally amended ICE’s vehicle stops policy.
国土安部分别发布了另一份直接否认，淡化了该指南的意义，该指南旨在阻止缺乏经验的人员与车辆发生互动。
The Department of Homeland Security issued another direct denial, downplaying the significance of the guidance, which took aim at keeping unexperienced personnel from engaging with vehicles.
“错误，这并不是什么新东西。这份备忘录并未改变ICE进行车辆停靠的方式，”该部门表示。“所有官员一直都接受过车辆停靠培训。”2025年，国土安全部将ICE学院的培训时间要求削减了大约40%，其中包括对驾驶和枪械培训的削减。这些削减发生在一次招聘热潮之前，该热潮使ICE的人员增加了约12,000人，以实现特朗普政府的驱逐目标。
“Wrong, this is nothing new. This memo makes no changes to how ICE conducts vehicle stops,” the department said. “ALL officers have always received vehicle stop training.”In 2025, the DHS cut training time requirements for ICE’s academy by approximately 40 percent, including cuts to driving and firearms training. The cuts came ahead of a hiring spree that added about 12,000 people to ICE’s ranks to meet the Trump administration’s deportation goals.
近期，美国移民与海关执法局对车辆拦截政策作出了修订。这是今年夏季该局及高层第三次要求执法与驱逐行动部门的人员调整与车辆相关的执法方式。此前，7月份得克萨斯州与缅因州相继发生移民执法人员在交通拦截过程中开枪打死两名男子的事件，随后移民与海关执法局暂停并修改了相关政策。这些新指令甚至还遭到了政府官方社交媒体账号的质疑。
The recent amendments to ICE’s vehicle stops policy marks the third time this summer that department and ICE leadership ordered Enforcement and Removal Operations officials to change how they engage with vehicles. Previously, ICE halted and then amended its policy after immigration officers shot and killed two men during traffic stops in Texas and Maine in July. These orders were also challenged by official government social media channels.
“显然，基层执法人员与华盛顿方面的指令存在脱节，”一位官员说道，“整个局面简直一团糟。”10月8日星期四，便衣打扮的移民与海关执法局人员在纽约市执行针对性执法行动时向一辆车辆开火。据报道，至少有7发子弹击中了该车。司机是一名28岁的多米尼加籍男子，颈部中弹；当时他5岁的儿子正坐在后座上。
“There’s clearly a disconnect between leadership on the ground level and what’s coming out of Washington” said one official. “It’s a total shitshow.”Then, on Thursday, October 8, plainclothes ICE officers opened fire on a vehicle during a targeted enforcement operation in New York City. At least seven rounds were fired into the car, according to reports. The driver, a 28-year-old Dominican man, was struck in the neck as his 5-year-old son sat in the backseat.
“从录像来看这完全像是一起劫车事件，他们又搞砸了，”另一位国土安全调查局的官员在查看事件录像后说道。“过去两年里，执法与驱逐行动部门从未获得过如此宽松的执法权限。以往对他们的执法限制要多得多。”
“The footage looks like a carjacking, they fucked up again,” said another Homeland Security Investigations official after reviewing video of the incident. “ERO was never given the freedom to work like they have in the past 2 years. They were always much more restrictive with their general enforcement.”
“如今却下达了这种毫无约束的指令，那些不习惯执法工作、也不熟悉如何与民众打交道的人员被直接推到了一线。再加上他们缺乏战术训练——后果可想而知。”
“Now comes these free-for-all mandates, and these guys who weren’t used to ‘enforcement’ and dealing with the public who were thrust into this world. Couple that with no tactical training — disaster.”