一名移民在佐治亚州一座庞大的拘留中心综合体内死亡，当地和联邦官员周五证实了这一消息，此前该设施因对内部持续绝食抗议的应对方式而面临全国关注。
An immigrant detained at a sprawling detention center complex in Georgia died on Friday, local and federal officials confirmed, after the facility has already faced national scrutiny for its response to an ongoing hunger strike inside.
这起死亡事件发生在佐治亚州福克斯顿的D Ray James设施内。据一名参与绝食的被拘留者、其妻子、律师和倡导者本周均表示，联邦移民官员和私营承包商涉嫌威胁该设施内的绝食者将实施强制喂食。被拘留者拒绝进食，以抗议长期拘禁和恶劣条件。
The death inside the D Ray James facility in Folkston, Georgia, comes as federal immigration officials and private contractors are allegedly threatening hunger strikers there with force-feeding, a detained hunger striker, his wife, attorneys and advocates all said this week. Detainees are refusing food to protest prolonged captivity and bad conditions. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday confirmed the death inside the facility, which is adjacent to the Folkston ICE processing center.
美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）周六证实了该设施内的死亡事件，该设施毗邻福克斯顿ICE处理中心。这两个设施共同构成了一个大型拘留综合体。根据联邦政府合同运营这些设施的私营监狱公司GEO集团将所有问题转交给ICE。
Together, both facilities make up a large detention complex. GEO Group, the private prison company that runs the facilities under contract for the federal government, referred all questions to ICE. The Georgia bureau of investigation (GBI), a state law enforcement agency, confirmed in an email that the local sheriff’s office requested the GBI conduct an “in-custody death investigation” at the D Ray facility, the Guardian can reveal.
佐治亚州调查局（GBI）——一家州执法机构——在一封电子邮件中证实，当地治安官办公室请求GBI在D Ray设施进行一项“羁押期间死亡调查”，《卫报》获悉。ICE及其上级机构国土安全部（DHS）未回应关于该死亡事件或绝食抗议的置评请求。
ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its umbrella agency, did not respond to requests for comment about the death or the hunger strike. “This was a preventable tragedy,” said Azadeh Shahshahani, the legal and advocacy director for Project South, a social justice organization based in Georgia.
“这是一场本可避免的悲剧，”总部位于佐治亚州的社会正义组织“南方项目”的法律与倡导主任阿扎德·沙沙哈尼说。“我们追究ICE和私营监狱公司对福克斯顿移民遭受的任何伤害的全部责任。我们呼吁立即对此悲剧性死亡展开独立调查并追究责任。福克斯顿必须立即关闭。” ICE在其声明中表示，死者为48岁的路易斯·桑多瓦尔，来自萨尔瓦多，并补充称，周五凌晨1点46分左右，设施工作人员发现桑多瓦尔颈部套有绳索。不到一小时后，他被宣告死亡。
“We hold ICE and the private prison corporation fully responsible for any harm that migrants suffer at Folkston. We call for an immediate independent investigation into this tragic death and for accountability. Folkston must be shut down immediately.”The man, Luis Sandoval, was 48 and from El Salvador, ICE said in its statement, adding that at about 1.46am on Friday, facility staff found Sandoval with a ligature around his neck. He was pronounced dead less than an hour later. Sandoval was arrested by ICE officials earlier this month, and transferred to the Folkston facility on 8 October.
桑多瓦尔本月初被美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）官员逮捕，并于10月8日被转移至福克斯顿设施。该机构在新闻稿中称，桑多瓦尔此前因加重袭击及其他罪行被定罪，其死亡正在接受调查。
In its press release, the agency said Sandoval had prior convictions for aggravated assault and other crimes, and that his death was under investigation. It was unknown on Saturday whether Sandoval had participated in the hunger strike.
周六不清楚桑多瓦尔是否参与了绝食抗议。佐治亚州调查局（GBI）表示，因调查正在进行中，无法透露更多细节。
The GBI said it could not share more details because of its active investigation. Sandoval is the 60th person to die in ICE custody since the start of the second Trump administration, as ICE continues with its aggressive anti-immigrant crackdown.
自第二届特朗普政府开启以来，桑多瓦尔是第60名在ICE羁押期间死亡的人员，而ICE仍在继续其激进的反移民打压行动。
Austin Kocher, president of Relevant Research, which studies the immigration enforcement system, and who is a research fellow at American University, said that this year, there have been an average of one death every 10 days in the custody of ICE.
研究移民执法体系的“相关研究”机构主席、美国大学研究员奥斯汀·科彻表示，今年在ICE羁押期间平均每10天就有一人死亡。该数字包括在拘留中心或在仍处于ICE羁押状态下在附近医院死亡的人员。
That figure includes people dying in detention centers or in nearby hospitals while still in the custody of ICE. “Even in the past, there has not been such an overt dehumanization and overt view that migrants’ lives are expendable,” Kocher added.
科彻补充道：“即使在过去，也没有如此公开的非人化，也没有如此公开地视移民生命为可牺牲品。我担心，特朗普政府的这种基调倾向于忽视，并将移民视为可抛弃之物。”数以万计的人被ICE逮捕并拘留，导致长期羁押，因为移民和寻求庇护者正在为他们的案件而战，尽管ICE在街头的高调存在感有所降低，但该机构近几个月来一直在加大攻势。
“I worry that that tone [from the Trump administration] has a tendency towards neglect and viewing migrants as disposable.”Tens of thousands of people have been arrested and detained by ICE, leading to prolonged detention, as immigrants and asylum seekers fight their cases, and the agency has been stepping up its offensive in recent months despite a less showy presence on the streets.
目前关押在佐治亚州拘留中心的安德烈·格尔久科夫是一名俄罗斯寻求庇护者，正在参与绝食抗议。
One man currently in the Georgia detention center is Andrei Gerdiukov, a Russian asylum seeker who is participating in the hunger strike.
近三周前，格尔久科夫和数十名其他被拘留者发起绝食抗议，要求加快其法律案件在美国移民系统中的处理进程，并抗议羁押条件。据格尔久科夫和律师称，绝食抗议者被关入单独监禁。
Nearly three weeks ago, Gerdiukov and dozens of others launched a hunger strike to demand their legal cases be processed more quickly through the US immigration system and to protest the conditions of their confinement. The hunger strikers were placed in solitary confinement, according to Gerdiukov and attorneys.
“我觉得累，觉得头晕。每一个动作都很难受，”格尔久科夫周六在羁押期间通过电话接受采访时说。“他们威胁我们要强制喂食。”他听说了那起死亡事件，但不认识桑多瓦尔。
“I feel tired, I feel dizzy. Every move, it is hard,” Gerdiukov said in an interview by phone on Saturday from detention. “They threatened us that they were going to force-feed us.”He had heard about the death but did not know Sandoval.
格尔久科夫的妻子波琳娜·切尔图什金娜说，他们因反对乌克兰战争而在俄罗斯遭受迫害，随后来到美国寻求庇护。他们的案件仍在审理中，但今年2月，这对夫妇驾车经过佛罗里达州时被拦下，并被移民官员拘留。切尔图什金娜获释，但格尔久科夫被送往福克斯顿，至今已有八个月。
Gerdiukov and his wife, Polina Chertushkina, came to the US from Russia to seek asylum after they faced persecution for their opposition to the war in Ukraine, Chertushkina said. Their cases are ongoing, but as the couple were driving through Florida this February, they were pulled over and detained by immigration officials. Chertushkina was released, but Gerdiukov was taken to Folkston eight months ago.
“我非常担心他，不知道该怎么办，”切尔图什金娜周六通过电话谈到强制喂食的威胁时说。切尔图什金娜正请求议员协助她的丈夫。
“I am so worried about him, I don’t know what to do,” Chertushkina said about the force-feeding threats, speaking on Saturday by phone. Chertushkina is asking lawmakers to assist her husband.
格尔久科夫说，尽管面临强制喂食的威胁，至少还有12名绝食者仍在坚持，并补充说已有几人晕倒。
At least 12 hunger strikers are still participating, despite the threats of force-feeding, Gerdiukov said, adding that several had been fainting.
格尔久科夫说，周五，绝食者被转移到附近的一个单元，身穿“作战靴”的医务人员为他们测量生命体征，引发了即将实施强制喂食的担忧。周六尚不清楚当局是否以及何时打算实施强制喂食。强制喂食绝食者的程序是保密的，法庭记录通常被封存。
On Friday, the hunger strikers were moved to a nearby unit, where medical officials “wearing combat boots” took their vital signs, raising fears of imminent force-feeding, Gerdiukov said. It was not clear on Saturday whether or when the authorities intended to use force-feeding. The process to force-feed hunger strikers is secretive, with court records often sealed.
法官必须批准该程序，随后看守限制绝食者行动，医务人员将管子经鼻腔插入喉咙，将营养液泵入胃中。医学伦理学家和人权组织称这种做法为酷刑。
A judge has to approve the procedure, and then detention guards restrain a hunger striker while medical staff push tubing up the nose and down the throat to pump nutritional liquid into the stomach. Medical ethicists and human rights organizations have called the practice torture.
美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）通常在法庭文件中声称，强制喂食对于维持拘留中心的“良好秩序”以及维持被拘留者生命是必要的。科彻谴责了这种自相矛盾。
ICE generally says in court filings that force-feeding is necessary to maintain “good order” in detention centers as well as to keep detainees alive. Kocher decried the contradictions.
“一方面，他们试图强行喂食（以维持生命），”科彻说。“然而与此同时，在同一个（福克斯顿）设施里，却有人死亡，且可能是自杀。”《卫报》一直在全美范围内追踪强制喂食案件。从2025年1月至2026年8月，美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）寻求法院许可，对至少19名绝食抗议的被拘留者实施强制喂食。一名阿富汗男子被强制喂食了近六个月。一名库尔德男子被强制喂食了近八个月。
“On the one hand, they’re trying to force-feed people [to keep them alive],” Kocher said. “And yet at the same time, in that same [Folkston] facility, you have someone who died and possibly was able to kill themselves.”The Guardian has been tracking force-feeding cases nationwide. From January 2025 through August 2026, ICE sought court permission to force-feed at least 19 detained hunger strikers. One Afghan man was force-fed for nearly six months. A Kurdish man was force-fed for nearly eight months.