
费利西亚·梅洛/伯克利赛德 上周五,一名加州大学伯克利分校学生在旧金山国际机场被美国移民和海关执法局逮捕,当时她正等待登机前往波特兰,与男友一起度假。
FELICIA MELLO/Berkeleyside A UC Berkeley student was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at San Francisco International Airport Friday while waiting to board a flight to Portland for a vacation with her boyfriend.
机构记录显示,23岁的保拉·瓦伦蒂娜·阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯目前被关押在移民和海关执法局的加州城拘留中心,与此同时,加州大学伯克利分校的学生和校方正在动员起来支持她。拉美裔法律中心的律师已提交人身保护令申请,对她的拘留提出质疑。
Paula Valentina Albornoz Hernandez, 23, is currently being held at ICE’s California City Detention Center, agency records show, while UC Berkeley students and administration mobilize to support her. Attorneys at Centro Legal de la Raza have filed a habeas corpus petition challenging her detention.
拉美裔法律中心管理律师尼科·德布雷梅克和大学发言人艾琳·泽鲁多均表示,此次逮捕很可能是自特朗普政府去年开始大规模驱逐行动以来,移民和海关执法局首次拘留一名在读的加州大学伯克利分校学生。
The arrest likely represents the first ICE detention of an active UC Berkeley student since the Trump administration began its mass deportation push last year, said both Niko De Bremaeker, a managing attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza, and university spokesperson Aileen Zerrudo.
德布雷梅克说,这名工商管理专业学生于2022年从哥伦比亚来到美国。他说,她签证逾期滞留,并以在本国遭受“严重的性别暴力”为由申请庇护,该申请仍在审理中。德布雷梅克说,她持有有效的工作许可,曾就读于圣何塞城市学院,之后转学到伯克利,在那里从事人工智能研究。
The business administration student arrived in the U.S. from Colombia in 2022, De Bremaeker said. He said she overstayed her visa and applied for asylum based on experiencing “severe gender-based violence” in her home country, an application that is still pending. She had a valid work permit, De Bremaeker said, and had attended San Jose City College before transferring to Berkeley where she was conducting research on artificial intelligence.
上周五晚上,她的男友安东尼说,两人提前到达机场,准备周末出游,他希望这能帮助阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯暂时摆脱繁重的课业压力。他说,他们正在登机口区域等候时,一名便衣移民和海关执法局探员走近阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯,问她叫什么名字,并说她看起来很面熟。安东尼说,这名探员没有表明自己为移民和海关执法局工作,而是猜了几个不同的名字,阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯都回答不是。
On Friday night, her boyfriend Anthony said, the couple had arrived early at the airport for a weekend getaway that he hoped would help take Albornoz Hernandez’s mind off her heavy course load. They were waiting in the gate area, he said, when an ICE agent in plain clothes approached Albornoz Hernandez and asked her name, saying she looked familiar. Without identifying himself as working for ICE, the agent guessed a couple of different names, Anthony said, to which Albornoz Hernandez said no.
安东尼说,第三次时,他猜对了。据安东尼讲述,阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯确认了自己的姓名后,ICE探员将这对情侣分开,随后告知阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯她的签证已过期,他们打算拘留她。(由于他女友案件的敏感性,Berkeleyside同意仅以名字来指代他。)“看着我的伴侣被从我身边夺走,而我却无能为力,这太可怕了,”安东尼说。
The third time, Anthony said, he guessed right. Once Albornoz Hernandez confirmed her name, ICE agents separated the couple, then told Albornoz Hernandez that her visa was expired and they were going to detain her, Anthony said. (Berkeleyside agreed to identify him by his first name only due to the sensitivity of his girlfriend’s case.)“It was scary seeing that my partner was getting ripped apart from me and there’s nothing I can do about it,” Anthony said.
德布雷梅克说,阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯周末大部分时间都在斯托克顿拘留中心度过,之后被送往加利福尼亚城——洛杉矶东北部的一处设施,今年早些时候,一项法院下令的调查发现该设施为被拘留者提供的医疗服务存在重大缺陷。
Albornoz Hernandez spent most of the weekend at Stockton Detention Center, De Bremaeker said, before being taken to California City, a facility northeast of Los Angeles where earlier this year, a court-ordered investigation found major flaws in the medical care provided to people detained there .
国土安全部一名发言人通过电子邮件证实,ICE探员在旧金山国际机场拘留了阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯。
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed by email that ICE agents had detained Albornoz Hernandez at SFO.
“她于2022年9月6日入境,合法获准停留至2023年3月6日。她无视我国法律,逾期未离境,”这名未透露姓名的发言人写道。“她将获得正当程序,并在遣返程序进行期间继续由ICE羁押。”
“She entered the country on September 6, 2022, with legal permission to stay until March 6, 2023. In defiance of our nation’s laws, she did not depart,” wrote the spokesperson, who did not give their name. “She will receive due process and remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”
国土安全部发言人否认ICE探员在接近阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯时未表明身份,称探员“按照机构政策明确表明自己是执法人员”。
The DHS spokesperson denied that ICE agents had failed to identify themselves when approaching Albornoz Hernandez, saying agents “clearly identify themselves as law enforcement in accordance with agency policy.”
当被问及为何探员拘留了一名庇护申请待决且工作许可有效的人时,该发言人回答说,“工作许可或待决申请并不赋予在美国的合法身份。”自今年夏天以来,ICE加大了在旧金山国际机场及其他机场的逮捕力度,尤其针对过去签证逾期滞留的人。《旧金山纪事报》的一项调查发现,移民探员还曾将绿卡持有者关押在机场一间没有窗户的房间里,一次长达数天。
Asked why agents had detained someone with a pending asylum application and valid work permit, the spokesperson replied that “work authorization or a pending application does NOT confer legal status in the United States.”ICE has stepped up arrests at San Francisco International Airport and other airports since the summer, especially targeting people who had overstayed visas in the past. Immigration agents have also held green card holders in a windowless room in the airport for days at a time , a San Francisco Chronicle investigation found.
德布雷梅克表示,阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯没有犯罪记录,此前也未被逮捕过;Berkeleyside查阅了阿拉米达县和联邦法院的记录,未发现任何犯罪前科。
De Bremaeker said Albornoz Hernandez had no criminal record or previous arrests; a Berkeleyside search of Alameda County and federal court records did not turn up any criminal history.
“这个人非常为政府所熟知,她在每一步都一直遵守规定,她做了所有她应该做的事,而且显然在社区中表现出色,”德布雷梅克说。
“This is somebody who was very much known with the government, she had been complying at every step, she was doing everything she was supposed to do and obviously excelling within the community,” De Bremaeker said.
他说,她的被捕“表明政府逮捕人是多么任意妄为,以及这对我们社区造成了多么深的伤害”。
Her arrest “demonstrates the arbitrary nature in which the government is arresting folks and how deeply it cuts into our communities,” he said.
在周一提交给美国联邦地区法院的一份请愿书中,拉美裔法律中心的律师主张,ICE逮捕阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯违反了联邦法律和美国宪法,因为执法人员在将她拘留前既未出示逮捕令,也未对她进行面谈以判断她是否有潜逃风险。Berkeleyside已请求国土安全部对这些说法作出回应。
In a petition filed in U.S. District Court Monday, attorneys with Centro Legal de la Raza argued that ICE’s arrest of Albornoz Hernandez violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution because officers did not present a warrant and did not interview her to determine whether she was a flight risk before taking her into custody. Berkeleyside has asked DHS for a response to those claims.
请愿书请求法院下令释放阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯,并阻止政府再次拘留她,除非政府能在法庭听证中证明她存在潜逃风险或对社区构成危险。
The petition asks the court to order Albornoz Hernandez’s release and prevent the government from detaining her again unless it can prove in a court hearing that she poses a flight risk or is a danger to the community.
在请愿书附上的一封支持信中,加州大学伯克利分校校长里奇·莱昂斯称阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯是“我们优秀的学生之一”。
In a letter of support attached to the petition, UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons called Albornoz Hernandez “one of our outstanding students.”
“在加州大学伯克利分校完成学位需要非凡的奉献精神和毅力,”他写道。“我深切担忧她目前的处境会不必要地干扰她已赢得的机会,可能影响她的学业进展。”“我恳请您让保拉能够恢复在我们这里的学业,”他补充道。
“It takes remarkable dedication and perseverance to complete a degree at UC Berkeley,” he wrote. “I am deeply concerned that her current situation will unnecessarily interfere with the opportunity that she has earned, potentially impacting her academic progress.”“I respectfully request that you make it possible for Paula to resume her studies with us,” he added.
安东尼形容他的女友极其负责任、勤奋好学,并说她长期以来一直梦想进入加州大学伯克利分校就读。他说,两人是在学校认识的:当时他正在攻读高中文凭,而阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯则在准备普通教育发展证书(GED)考试。
Anthony described his girlfriend as hyper-responsible and studious and said she had long dreamed of attending UC Berkeley. The two met in school, he said: He was working towards his high school diploma and Albornoz Hernandez toward her GED.
“她总是谈起伯克利,谈起她有多想考进去,”他说,“我很佩服她那么自信——她知道自己想要什么,并且为之努力。”两人一直保持联系,阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯后来进入圣何塞城市学院,去年夏天开始交往。他说,转入加州大学伯克利分校后,阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯学习更加刻苦,以适应竞争更激烈的环境。“她总是日夜不停地学习,”他说。
“She always talked about Berkeley and how she wanted to get in,” he said. “I just admired how confident she was — she knew what she wanted and was going for it.”They kept in touch as Albornoz Hernandez went on to San Jose City College, and started dating last summer. After transferring to UC Berkeley, he said, Albornoz Hernandez studied harder as she adapted to a more competitive environment. “She’s always working, day and night,” he said.
安东尼希望这次波特兰之行能让她有机会放松一下。他说,两人此前都没去过波特兰。他们都热爱户外活动,期待着去徒步,也许还能看看瀑布。
Anthony hoped the trip to Portland, which neither of them had visited before, could give her a chance to relax. They both love the outdoors, he said, and looked forward to going hiking, maybe seeing some waterfalls.
他说,他一直很注意保护阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯的安全,曾从自己的学业和焊工工作中抽出时间,开车把她从海沃德的晚间教堂礼拜送回伯克利,然后再长途返回圣何塞的家中。如今他说,自己 planned 的这次旅行竟意外导致她被捕,这让他深感内疚,但他努力把注意力集中在让她尽快获释上。
He has always been protective of Albornoz Hernandez’s safety, he said, taking time from his own studies and job as a welder to drive her from evening church services in Hayward back to Berkeley, then trekking home to San Jose. Now, he said he is plagued by guilt that the trip he planned unexpectedly led to her arrest, but tries to stay focused on getting her released soon.
他说,阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯在加州大学伯克利分校的朋友们也伸出了援手,他们通知了教授她缺席的情况,以免她落下太多功课。“我们希望她不要耽误学业,因为这是她的梦想,”他说。
Albornoz Hernandez’s friends at UC Berkeley have also helped out, he said, informing professors about her absence so she doesn’t fall too far behind. “We want her to not miss out on her schooling because this is her dream,” he said.
阿拉米达县移民法律教育伙伴关系组织建议,任何移民身份不确定的人在没有先咨询律师的情况下不要乘飞机出行。他们还呼吁任何被拘留者或目击ICE逮捕行动的人拨打他们的热线电话。
The Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership is advising anyone with an uncertain immigration status to avoid traveling by plane without consulting an attorney first. They have also urged anyone who is detained or witnesses an ICE arrest to call their hotline .
德布雷梅克说,阿尔博诺斯·埃尔南德斯定于11月17日在移民法庭举行听证会。这起移民案件与质疑其拘留的联邦案件是分开的。亚历克斯·N·格坎对报道有贡献。
Albornoz Hernandez is scheduled for a hearing in immigration court on Nov. 17, De Bremaeker said. The immigration case is separate from the federal case challenging her detention. Alex N. Gecan contributed reporting.
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