国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马林周三表示，在从五角大楼接收一台军用级热射线武器后，国土安全部（DHS）“一直在评估边境上的技术”。
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is “always evaluating technology on the border” after receiving a military-grade heat ray from the Pentagon.
CNN报道称，这种热射线正式名称为“主动拒止系统”，会发射一束不可见的电磁波，射程可达半英里多一点，接触人体皮肤时会产生灼烧感。
CNN reported that the heat ray, officially called the Active Denial System, emits an invisible beam of electromagnetic waves that can reach a little more than half a mile away and causes a burning sensation when it comes into contact with human skin.
五角大楼官员将这种感觉比作打开烤箱时扑面而来的热浪，会导致10到15分钟的“刺痛感”，产生“一种本能的、无法抗拒的想要逃离该效应范围的冲动”。
Pentagon officials have compared the feeling to the blast of heat when opening an oven, resulting in a 10-15 minute “tingling sensation” that generates “an instinctive and irresistible urge to run from the effect.”
“听着，我们一直在评估边境上的技术，”马林在福克斯新闻节目《英格拉姆视角》中告诉主持人劳拉·英格拉姆。“威慑是我们拥有的最佳选择，因此任何可用来威慑人们非法入境的技术，我们都在使用。”马林补充说，国土安部将使用“我们手头拥有的任何工具”来防止移民非法进入美国。他表示不会评论该技术的工作原理，但称其属于“非致命或低致命”武器，目标是在非必要情况下不部署致命武力。
“Well, listen, we’re always evaluating technology on the border,” Mullin told “The Ingraham Angle” host Laura Ingraham on Fox News. “Deterrent is the best option we have, and so any technology we can use to deter people from trying to enter this country illegally, we’re doing that.”Mullin added that DHS will use “whatever tool we have at our disposal” to prevent migrants from illegally entering the U.S. He said he would not comment on how the technology works but said it was “less lethal or nonlethal,” and the goal is not to deploy lethal forces unless necessary.
“但这是我们的目标，我们的目标是说：‘别过来。我们不——我们的边境是关闭的。我们不是民主党人。我们不会允许你们进来占美国人民的便宜，’”他补充道。
“But that’s our goal, or goal is to say, ‘Don’t come across. We’re not –– Our borders are closed. We’re not Democrats. We’re not going to allow you to come in and take advantage of the American people,'” he added.
目前尚不清楚该武器将如何测试以及可能如何使用，现任和前任海关与边境保护局官员告诉CNN，国土安全部内部曾就沿墨西哥边境驱散人群一事进行过讨论。
It remains unclear how the weapon would be tested and how it might be used, with current and former Customs and Border Protection officials telling CNN that there have been internal discussions at DHS about crowd dispersal along the border with Mexico.
一名国防部官员告诉该媒体，在为期七个月的借用期结束后，国土安全部可以提出额外请求以继续使用热射线武器。
A Defense Department official told the outlet that DHS can make an additional request to use the heat-ray weapon after its seven-month loan period.
该武器由马萨诸塞州沃尔瑟姆市的雷神公司研发，2010年曾在阿富汗部署用于实战行动，但从未使用过。洛杉矶县警长办公室表示，同年该部门在卡斯蒂克的皮奇斯拘留中心部署了一种该武器的小型版本，旨在“阻止或减轻囚犯袭击的严重程度”。卡斯蒂克位于洛杉矶以北的圣克拉里塔谷。
The weapon, developed by Raytheon in Waltham, Mass., was previously deployed for active combat operations in Afghanistan in 2010, but was never used. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that same year it deployed a smaller version of the weapon to “stop or lessen the severity of inmate assaults” at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, located in the Santa Clarita Valley north of Los Angeles.
美国公民自由联盟抨击了前洛杉矶县警长李·巴卡关于该武器的声明，并敦促他不要使用它。他们补充说，军方有证据表明该武器“能够造成不仅难以忍受的疼痛，而且死亡”。前国土安全部部长柯尔斯滕·尼尔森2018年表示，该武器不会被使用，当时特朗普总统警告称，移民“车队”正在逼近南部边境，《纽约时报》报道称。尼尔森还对一名助手说，绝不能再提及使用该武器。
The American Civil Liberties Union slammed former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca’s announcement about the weapon and urged him not to use it. They added that the military had evidence that the weapon “is capable of inflicting not only intolerable pain, but death.”Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in 2018 said the weapon would not be used amid President Trump’s warnings that “caravans” of migrants were approaching the southern border, The New York Times reported. Nielsen also told an aide that using the weapon must never be brought up again.