杰西卡·马丁内斯在本月早些时候，随着亚伯拉罕·林肯号航空母舰在长期的中东战时部署后抵达圣地亚哥时，受到欢呼人群的迎接。她平安无事，身体健康，并且已晋升为军士长。
Jessica Martinez was welcomed home by cheering crowds as the USS Abraham Lincoln docked in San Diego earlier this month after a long wartime deployment to the Middle East. She was safe, she was healthy, and she had been promoted to a non-commissioned officer.
但就在几天后来她终于拥抱父亲时，她只能说：“我很抱歉。” 亨伯托·马丁内斯在女儿部署期间被驱逐出境回墨西哥，不知为何，她觉得自己辜负了他。
But all she could say when she finally hugged her father a few days later was, “I’m sorry.”Humberto Martinez was deported to Mexico while his daughter was deployed and, somehow, she felt she had failed him.
对于林肯打击群数千名船员来说，这是一次较为复杂的归乡，但并非独一无二。根据其家属的说法，杰西卡的舰友约书亚·阿维莱斯的父亲也曾被移民特工拘留，后来才获释。美联社8月报道称，在唐纳德·特朗普总统第二任期内，超过50名现役军人的父母和配偶被拘留，其中一些人被驱逐出境。
It was one of the more complicated homecomings for the thousands of crew of the Lincoln strike group, but not unique. The father of Jessica’s shipmate, Joshua Aviles, also was detained by immigration agents, before later being released, according to his family. The Associated Press reported in August that more than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty military personnel had been detained and some deported in President Donald Trump’s second term.
自初中起，参军就是杰西卡的梦想，部分原因是她能获得的经历，但也是为了帮助父母走上合法身份之路。杰西卡和她的妹妹安娜是出生在美国的公民，但她们的父母在非法入境后一直居住在加利福尼亚州。她说：“我想给父母全世界，因为他们给了我全世界。”
Joining the military had been Jessica’s dream since middle school, partly for the experiences she would get, but also to help put her parents on a path to legal status. Jessica and her sister, Ana, are natural born US citizens, but her parents had lived in California after they entered unlawfully. “I wanted to give my parents the world because they gave me the world,” she said.
杰西卡说，她在林肯号上表现出色，成为了一名熟练处理这艘巨型航母武器和导弹的操作员。她说，她很高兴能够寄钱回家，并感到欣慰的是，她的父母能够申请“就地假释”——这项政策可推迟现役军人家庭成员等人的驱逐出境，并可能带来合法永久居留权。
Jessica said she did well on the Lincoln, becoming a skilled handler of the armaments and missiles of the massive aircraft carrier. She said she was happy to send money home and was gratified that her parents were able to apply for Parole in Place — which can defer deportation for family members of active service personnel, among others, and can lead to legal permanent residency.
她在1月31日乘坐林肯号航母在阿拉伯海时，联邦特工在加利福尼亚州亨廷顿海滩她家附近的公寓逮捕了她的父亲。亨伯托注意到执法人员在跟踪他，于是将卡车靠边停下。阿娜拍摄了特工给她父亲戴上手铐的过程，并喊出他已申请合法化身份。他当天就被驱逐出境。
She was aboard the Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on January 31 when federal agents arrested her father near the family’s apartment in Huntington Beach, California. Humberto had noticed law enforcement was tailing him and had pulled his truck over to the side of the road. Ana filmed as agents handcuffed her father, calling out that he had applied to legalize his status. He was deported the same day.
当时，国土安全部表示，亨伯托是“来自墨西哥的犯罪非法移民，此前曾因酒驾和未经授权使用车辆被定罪”，并且在美国已被遣返四次。
At the time, the Department of Homeland Security said Humberto was “a criminal illegal alien from Mexico previously convicted of DUI and unauthorized use of a vehicle” who had been removed from the United States four times before.
随着部署加剧，杰西卡告诉CNN，她曾感到想要放弃。但正是她的父亲告诉她要继续前进，即使他正面临与家人、家园以及铺设硬木地板工作分离的新现实。
As the deployment ramped up, she felt like giving up, Jessica told CNN. But it was her father who told her to keep going, even as he was having to deal with his new reality of being split from his family, his home, and his work laying hardwood floors.
“你必须继续前进；你是个硬汉，”她回忆父亲对她说的话。“你可以做到——为我做到。”22岁的杰西卡在此次部署中表现优于一些舰友，当时林肯号创下连续在海上天数的现代纪录，且有抱怨称条件恶劣、心理压力大。而且，隧道尽头总有光：那就是回家。
“You have to keep going; you’re a badass,” she recalled him saying to her. “You can do it — do it for me.”Jessica, 22, fared better than some of her shipmates during the deployment when the Lincoln set a modern record for consecutive days at sea and where there were complaints of poor conditions and mental health strains. And,there was always the light at the end of the tunnel: getting back home.
林肯号于10月8日在圣地亚哥无云的蓝天下靠岸，将船员送回亲人怀抱。
The Lincoln docked on October 8, under a cloudless blue sky in San Diego, disgorging its crew to the arms of their loved ones.
但当杰西卡身着整洁的白色礼服再次踏上家乡土地时，她的母亲和父亲都不在场。
But as Jessica, in her crisp dress whites, set foot again on home soil, neither her mother nor her father were there.
stattdessen，19岁的阿娜成了欢迎委员会。自从父亲被驱逐出境后，她成为家庭的支柱——帮助因过于紧张而只为工作才离家的母亲，并为正在服役的姐姐加油。
Instead, Ana, 19, was the welcoming committee. Since their father was deported, she had become the head of the family — helping their mother, who is too nervous to leave home except for work, and cheering on her sister at war.
当她在码头等待时，正在装饰一张海报，阿娜兴奋地期待看到姐姐，并准备继续成为维系大家团结的粘合剂。但就在她看到杰西卡的那一刻，这一切瞬间崩塌。
As she waited on the pier, decorating a poster, Ana was excited to see her sister and ready to keep being the glue that held everyone together. That crumbled the moment she saw Jessica.
过去九个月的紧张情绪和泪水在他们拥抱时倾泻而出。安娜又一次成为了被杰西卡安慰的妹妹。
The tension of the last nine months and the tears came pouring through as they hugged. Ana again became the younger sister being comforted by Jessica.
姐妹俩在交通中行驶了三个半小时才回到家中，进行另一次团聚，又一块家庭被重新拼合，这一切都离不开她们母亲南希那非常、非常长的拥抱。
Three-and-a-half hours through traffic took the sisters home, for another reunion, another piece of the family put back together with a very, very long embrace from their mom, Nancy.
但对杰西卡而言，抵达亨廷顿海滩的童年故居时，唤起了她对所失去之物的回忆。
But for Jessica, reaching her childhood home in Huntington Beach spurred reminders of what was missing.
“看到他过去坐的地方，看到他的衣服，”她说起她的父亲。“我第一次回家时，他就在身边。他能够用双臂接住我，而今天却不同。”她给他打了视频电话，想把他带到庆祝现场。有一段时间，两人都因泪水而无法说话。
“Seeing where he used to sit at, seeing his clothes,” she said of her dad. “The first homecoming that I had, he was here. He was able to receive me in his arms, and today it was different.”She made a video call to him, to bring him to the celebration. For a while, neither could speak through their tears.
那天晚上，她思考着自己对国家的服役，以及政府对她家庭的移民行动。
That evening, she contemplated her service to her country, and the government’s immigration action on her family.
“我确实感到失望，但同时，我这样做是为了我的家人，也为了表明……我们并不是他们说的那样来自罪犯，”杰西卡说。“他们说我父亲是罪犯，诸如此类，但他养育了一位战士。”两天后，在一片如海军舰船般灰暗的天空下，杰西卡和安娜返回圣地亚哥，步行至国际边境，穿过一道沉重的金属门进入墨西哥。
“I do feel disappointed, but at the same time, I did this for my family and to show that … we don’t come from criminals like they say,” Jessica said. “They say that my dad is a criminal and everything, but he raised a warrior.”Two days later, under a sky the gray of a Navy ship, Jessica and Ana returned to San Diego, walked to the international border and passed through a heavy metal gate into Mexico.
安娜看到亨伯托时挥手并说：“嗨，爸爸！”杰西卡紧紧抓住背包的肩带，强忍情绪。随后，当父亲将她搂入怀中时，泪水夺眶而出。“我很抱歉，”她说。“不是你的错，”他安慰她。
Ana waved and said, “Hi, Dad!” when she saw Humberto. Jessica held tightly onto the straps of her backpack, holding back her emotions. Then the tears came as her father took her into his arms. “I’m sorry,” she said. “Not your fault,” he reassured her.
亨伯托穿着一件亚伯拉罕·林肯号航空母舰的连帽衫，并将他原来的洋基队棒球帽换成了杰西卡送他的林肯队棒球帽，作为礼物。他告诉CNN，他仍在继续法律上诉，以期返回美国。在向CNN更新的声明中，国土安全部对亨伯托提出了新的指控。
Humberto wore a USS Abraham Lincoln hoodie, and he swapped his Yankees ballcap for a Lincoln cap that Jessica had brought him as a gift. He told CNN he is continuing his legal appeals to return to the United States. In an updated statement to CNN, DHS made new allegations against him.
“亨伯托·马丁内斯是来自墨西哥的犯罪非法移民，因酒驾和毒品犯罪有定罪记录，并因假冒公民身份和人口走私被捕。他曾至少六次被美国单独驱逐出境，每次非法重新入境均构成重罪。他于2026年1月31日最近一次被ICE逮捕，当天即被遣返回墨西哥，”一位国土安全部发言人在一份声明中写道。“马丁内斯先生多次无视并嘲弄我们国家的法律。他的律师可以提出他想要的任何数量的上诉，但那只是浪费时间——马丁内斯先生永远不会被欢迎回到美国。”CNN就针对亨伯托提出的新问题寻求澄清，但尚未收到回复。
“Humberto Martinez is a criminal illegal alien from Mexico with convictions for DUI and drug offenses, and arrests for false citizenship and human smuggling. He has been previously removed from the United States on at least six separate occasions with each illegal re-entry being a felony offense. He was most recently arrested by ICE on January 31, 2026, and was returned home to Mexico the same day,” a DHS spokesperson wrote in an“Mr. Martinez has repeatedly disrespected and made a mockery of our nation’s laws. His lawyer can file as many appeals as he would like, but he’d be wasting his time — Mr. Martinez is NEVER going to be welcomed back into the United States.”CNN requested clarification on the new issues raised against Humberto but has not yet received a response.
亨伯托仍对美国心怀感激。“它给了我抚养家庭的机会……并让我在那里努力工作，帮助他们成长，”他说。他承认自己非法越境，并在因酒驾定罪后完成了教育和社区服务，他表示该罪名被归类为轻罪。他告诉CNN，政府提出的其他指控是“谎言”。
Humberto still speaks of the United States with gratitude. “It gave me the opportunity to raise a family … and to work hard there to help them grow,” he said. He acknowledges he has crossed the border illegally, and completed education and community service after a DUI conviction that he said was classed as a misdemeanor. He told CNN the other allegations from the government were “lies.”
在蒂华纳，他说：“我感觉很好。我得以看到家乡的水手。不过，我不在家，所以这非常艰难。”在他父亲终于站在她身边时，杰西卡说，驱逐出境感觉像“背后的一刀”，尽管她仍然为军队和自己的服务感到自豪。
In Tijuana, he said: “I’m feeling good. I got to see my sailor back home. The thing is, I’m not home, so it’s very hard.”With her dad finally by her side, Jessica said the deportation felt like “a stab in the back,” even as she remains proud of the military and her service.
不久，她将需要迈出新的一步。在她四年期满之际，她计划离开海军，像她妹妹一样上大学。
Soon it will be time for her to move on. At the end of her four-year contract, she plans to leave the Navy and attend college like her little sister.
“我会继续奋斗，”她说。“我会为我爸爸伸张正义，让他能够回来。”
“I’m going to keep fighting,” she said. “I’m going to find justice for my dad for him to come back.”