莉莉安娜的血压危险性升高，这是她糖尿病控制不善引发的并发症。她的医生对她的健康状况极为担忧，指出有肝衰竭迹象和癌症复发的潜在症状。
Liliana’s blood pressure is dangerously high, a complication of her poorly managed diabetes. Her doctors are urgently concerned for her health, pointing to signs of liver failure and potential symptoms of recurring cancer.
然而，她却无法获得所需的医疗护理。这是因为莉莉安娜——我用她的中间名代称以保护其隐私——已在路易斯安那州的一座移民拘留中心被关押了一年多，距离她在马里兰州的孩子以及她生活了近十年的社区相隔一千多英里。
Yet she is unable to get the care she needs. That is because Liliana, who I am referring to by her middle name to protect her confidentiality, has spent more than a year in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, more than 1,000 miles from her children in Maryland and from a community where she has built her life for almost a decade.
在此期间，莉莉安娜错过了第一个孙辈的出生。如今她的女儿再次怀孕。在又一个家庭重要时刻即将在她缺席的情况下到来之际，两位独立医生已警告移民当局，莉莉安娜的健康状况正在迅速恶化。
During that time, Liliana has missed the birth of her first grandchild. Now her daughter is pregnant again. And as yet another family milestone approaches without her, two independent physicians have warned immigration authorities that Liliana’s health is rapidly deteriorating.
过去一年，我一直作为她的代理律师，而她仍被拘押。她无犯罪记录，与社区联系紧密，从事油漆和装修工作乐在其中，闲暇时间则制作手工艺品。
I have been representing Liliana for the past year as she remains in detention. She has no criminal record. She has strong ties to her community, finds joy doing painting and remodeling work and spends her free time making arts and crafts.
作为一名移民律师，我曾为数十名寻求人道主义救济的移民提供代理。在这个行业干久了，你会自以为已经摸清了我们这个崩坏体系的全貌。但莉莉安娜的案子打破了这种自信，让我看到了我们移民邻居所面临的不公有多深。
As an immigration attorney, I have represented dozens of immigrants seeking humanitarian relief. After a while in this line of work, you believe you have mapped the full geography of our broken system. But working on Liliana’s case dismantled that certainty, showing me the depths of injustice our immigrant neighbors face.
在特朗普政府时期，我亲眼目睹了短视的行政备忘录以及移民系统持续军事化造成的毁灭性后果。近期有报道称，美国移民与海关执法局已下令其特工将每日全国逮捕人数增加一千人，我们恐怕只会看到更多此类拘押——这种拘押无法保护任何人，却给全国各地的人们和社区造成了巨大伤害。
Under the Trump administration, I have witnessed firsthand the devastating outcomes of shortsighted executive memos and the steady militarization of our immigration system. With recent reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ordered its agents to increase the number of daily nationwide arrests by 1,000, we are likely to only see more detentions like this — detentions that protect no one, but inflict incredible harm on people and communities across the country.
莉莉安娜本不该被拘留。当她的女儿作为未成年人幸免于人口贩运后，莉莉安娜支持女儿配合美国联邦执法部门，促使女儿成为T类签证申请人。通过国会设立的这一旨在保护人口贩运幸存者的专门身份，莉莉安娜有资格通过一项正在审理中的衍生T类签证申请获得保护。通过主动协助美国联邦政府，他们的家庭进入了政府预设的框架：协助执法，并在案件审理期间获得免于拘留和驱逐的保护。
Liliana should never have been detained in the first place. When her daughter survived human trafficking as a minor, Liliana supported her cooperation with U.S. federal law enforcement, leading to her daughter becoming a T-visa applicant. Through this specialized status established by Congress to protect trafficking survivors, Liliana is eligible for protection through a pending derivative T-visa application. In coming forward to help the U.S. federal government, their family entered into the government’s intended framework: assist law enforcement and receive protection from detention and removal while their case is pending.
然而，一年前，莉莉安娜在一次例行的美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）报到中被拘留，此前她解释说因糖尿病相关的医疗原因无法佩戴脚踝监测器。她告诉我们，ICE官员不仅没有提供便利，反而嘲笑她。随后，他们将她送往全美各地，关押在路易斯安那州门罗市的里奇伍德矫正中心。资深移民律师明白，将当事人转移至路易斯安那州第五巡回法院辖区，并非因为当地设施容量不足。更多时候，这是一种故意策略，旨在将当事人跨州转移，限制其接触律师的机会，并让他们陷入正当程序的困境。
Instead, a year ago Liliana was detained during a routine ICE check-in, after explaining she could not wear an ankle monitor for medical reasons related to her diabetes. Rather than accommodating her, the ICE officers laughed, she told us. Then they sent her across the country to Richwood Correctional Center, a detention facility in Monroe, Louisiana. Longtime immigration attorneys understand that transfers to the Fifth Circuit in Louisiana are not due to a lack of capacity in local facilities. More often than not, it is an intentional tactic to move a client across state lines, limit their access to counsel and keep them in due-process limbo.
据路易斯安那州美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）称，该州的拘留中心已成为系统性侵犯人权、医疗疏忽和非人道生活条件的“黑洞”。在特朗普第二届政府执政下，拘留人数激增，全美被拘留移民中近13%关押在路易斯安那州的设施中。而现在，政府正寻求进一步增加这一数字。
According to the ACLU of Louisiana, the state’s detention centers have become a “black hole” for systematic human rights abuses, medical neglect and inhumane living conditions. Under the second Trump administration, detentions have skyrocketed, with nearly 13 % of all detained immigrants nationwide held in Louisiana-based facilities. And now the administration is seeking to potentially increase that number.
里奇伍德矫正中心的官员们基本无视了两名医生的紧急警告，这两名医生评估了莉莉安娜的病情，并警告她血压危险性升高且出现早期肝衰竭。与此同时，我的组织Ayuda已与路易斯安那州的公益律师弗拉维亚·穆迪合作，她拥有第五巡回法院的执业资格，正在准备一份修正申请书和一份临时限制令，用于现有的一宗人身保护令案件，以质疑她被拘留的合法性。人身保护令程序正在积极推进，但进程极其缓慢，这在该州的第五巡回法院中臭名昭著。
Richwood Correctional Center officials have largely ignored the urgent warnings from the two doctors who have evaluated Liliana’s condition and warned of her dangerously high blood pressure and early liver failure. At the same time, my organization, Ayuda, has partnered with Louisiana pro bono counsel Flavia Moody, who is admitted to the Fifth Circuit and is preparing an amended petition and a temporary restraining order in an existing habeas corpus case to challenge the lawfulness of her detention. The habeas process is actively moving forward, but the process is moving at a painfully slow pace, notoriously common within the state’s Fifth Circuit.
根据美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）自身的《基于绩效的国家拘留标准》，患有严重且恶化的疾病、有待决人道主义救济申请且记录良好的人员，是获批人道主义假释或监管释放的首选对象。上述任何单一理由均构成释放她的依据。莉莉安娜同时具备这三项条件。然而，她依然被关押在远离家人的地方，处于一种不确定的境地，且身处难以想象的恶劣条件之中。
Under ICE’s own Performance-Based National Detention Standards, individuals with severe, deteriorating medical conditions, pending humanitarian relief claims and clean records are prime candidates for release on humanitarian parole or supervision. Any single one of these reasons are grounds for her release. Liliana has all three. And yet she remains miles away from her family, in limbo and under unimaginable conditions.
通过每周与莉莉安娜的通话，我亲眼目睹了她病情的急剧恶化。我们的通话时间有限，这让获取信息、评估她的状况以及寻找援助途径变得更加困难。她的健康状况在多个方面呈螺旋式下降，这因里奇伍德矫正中心的系统性忽视而加剧。她失控的糖尿病导致严重高血压，舒格曼医生警告这可能诱发中风。最近我得知，她的手因在拘留期间接受的一项手术留下的伤口未获治疗而出现变色。
Through my weekly conversations with Liliana, I have witnessed her rapid deterioration. We have limited time together, which makes it even harder to get information, assess how she’s doing and see what can be done to help. Her health is spiraling on multiple fronts, aggravated by the systematic neglect at the Richwood Correctional Center. Her unmanaged diabetes is causing hypertension so severe, Dr. Sugarman warns it could trigger a stroke. Most recently, I learned her hand is discolored due to an untreated surgical wound from a recent procedure performed in detention.
我也很担心，因为她有癌症病史，目前出现的症状指向可能复发。每一步似乎都让她的健康无法喘息。莉莉安娜告诉我，设施里没人把她或她的需求当回事，她还面临工作人员和另一名被拘留者的骚扰。连同莉莉安娜的家人，我对她的状况感到震惊，并为她深感忧虑。
I am also concerned since she has a history of cancer and has been showing symptoms pointing to a possible recurrence. At every turn, it seems like there is no reprieve for her health. Liliana tells me no one at the facility takes her or her needs seriously, and that she’s facing harassment from staff and another detainee. Along with Liliana’s family, I’m alarmed by her condition and deeply worried for her.
作为一名律师、一名致力于维护家庭完整的女儿和一名美国公民，我对目睹我们的政府造成这种痛苦感到震惊——这不是为了法律，当然也不是为了维护公共安全，而是出于一种空洞的冲动，去伤害已经受伤的人。莉莉安娜的磨难不是倒霉的意外，也不是孤立的官僚失误。这是我们驱逐政策的蓄意架构，正按其当前设计运作，把国会通过的保护条款视为要绕过的麻烦，而非必须遵守的法律。
As a lawyer, a daughter dedicated to keeping families whole and an American citizen, I am appalled to witness our government inflict such suffering — not in the service of the law, and certainly not in defense of public safety, but out of a hollow impulse to wound the already wounded. Liliana’s ordeal is not an accident of bad luck or an isolated bureaucratic failure. It’s the deliberate architecture of our deportation policy, working as it is currently designed to, treating congressionally enacted protections as inconveniences to sidestep rather than binding law.
自2025年7月23日起，莉莉安娜被非法拘留，与家人分离，为生命而战。我们已穷尽所有法律和人道主义途径。她的长期拘留违反了具有约束力的判例（ICWC诉诺姆案），挥霍纳税人的钱，并实实在在地危及她的健康和安全。
Since July 23, 2025, Liliana has been unlawfully detained, separated from her family and fighting for her life. We have exhausted every legal and humanitarian path. Her prolonged detention violates binding precedent (ICWC v. Noem), squanders taxpayer funds and actively jeopardizes her health and safety.
身陷囹圄的莉莉安娜自己，最能道出关押她的制度的残酷。她从路易斯安那州的设施里告诉我：“这里有很多不公，他们对待我们的方式，给我们的食物是给动物吃的，他们不给我们维持生命所需的药物。我希望这里所有的母亲都能得到公正，那些孩子在家里、生病的、患自闭症的、为孩子哭泣的母亲。我只能说，我希望为发生在我们身上的一切伸张正义。”正义始于移民与海关执法局（ICE）今天释放莉莉安娜。
It is Liliana herself who best captures the sheer cruelty of the system holding her hostage. From inside the Louisiana facility, she told me, “There is a lot of injustice here, how they treat us, the food they give us is for animals and they don’t give us the medication we need to live. I hope there is justice for all the mothers who are here, who have kids back at home, who are sick, who have autism, who cry for their kids. The only thing I can say is that I hope there is justice for everything that is happening to us.”Justice begins with ICE releasing Liliana today.