美国国土安全部的内部通讯记录新披露了前部长克里斯蒂·诺姆授予其高级顾问科里·莱万多夫斯基的行政权力范围，使这位特朗普2016年竞选经理得以在移民执法的日常行动方向上做出广泛决策。
Internal communications from the Department of Homeland Security shed new light on the amount of executive authority former Secretary Kristi Noem handed to her senior adviser Corey Lewandowski, empowering the Trump 2016 campaign manager to make wide-ranging decisions on the daily course of immigration enforcement.
2025年3月至8月间，国土安全部高层官员之间的电子邮件和Signal通讯软件消息显示，莱万多夫斯基参与了关于特朗普政府打击非法移民行动的敏感讨论。这些讨论包括将无证移民遣送至第三国的计划，以及关于将基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚遣送至萨尔瓦多的法律纠纷。
Emails and Signal messages among top DHS officials between March and August 2025 show that Lewandowski was part of sensitive discussions about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. These included planning for deportations of unauthorized immigrants to third countries and the legal dispute over the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García to El Salvador.
这些信息是由倾向自由派的监督组织“美国监督”通过《信息自由法》请求获得，并与《政客》杂志共享。
The messages were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by American Oversight, a liberal-leaning watchdog group, and shared with POLITICO.
莱万多夫斯基于2025年1月至2026年3月期间在该部门任职，但没有任何正式职位，而是担任特别政府雇员——这是一种无薪职位，允许外部专家临时以顾问身份支持政府工作。此前，民主党人和一些共和党人都曾主张，诺姆将本应由部长负责的重要决策外包给了他。
Lewandowski was at the department between January 2025 and March 2026 but without any official role, instead serving as a special government employee — an unpaid role in which an outside expert can temporarily support government work as an adviser. Both Democrats and some Republicans have previously argued that Noem had outsourced important decisions to him that should have been the job of the secretary.
今年早些时候，诺姆仍在任期间，媒体报道称诺姆与莱万多夫斯基存在恋情，促使众议院民主党人在听证会上对此进行质询。
Earlier this year, while Noem was still in office, media reports alleged that Noem had a romantic relationship with Lewandowski, prompting House Democrats to question her about it in hearings.
莱万多夫斯基和诺姆此前均否认了这些指控。莱万多夫斯基拒绝就本文置评。诺姆的代表未回应置评请求。国土安全部拒绝置评。
Lewandowski and Noem have previously denied those allegations. Lewandowski declined to comment for this story. A representative for Noem did not respond to a request for comment. DHS declined to comment.
国土安全部援引允许其保密机构间协调通讯的法定条款，对信息的大部分内容进行了遮盖处理。但未被遮盖的部分显示，尽管莱万多夫斯基在该部门缺乏正式行政职务，高级官员仍给予了他相当大且不同寻常的尊重。
Much of the content of the messages was redacted by DHS, which cited statutory provisions that allow it to keep interagency coordination communications private. But the unredacted parts of the messages showed that senior officials gave considerable and unusual deference to Lewandowski, given his lack of formal executive role at the department.
在 2025 年 7 月 15 日的一次交流中，莱万多夫斯基赞扬了驱逐行动。当时担任 ICE 代理局长的托德·莱昂斯回应称：“他们只会做得更好，先生！”国土安全部官员在许多方面都把莱万多夫斯基视为与诺姆平级的人员。在一封电子邮件中，国土安全部副部长特洛伊·埃德加指示其首席助手克拉克·巴罗拟定几项内容，向“S1 和科里”汇报。S1 是部门内部通讯中对诺姆的简称。
In one July 15, 2025, exchange, Lewandowski praised deportation efforts. Then-acting ICE Director Todd Lyons responded saying that “they are only going to get better sir!”DHS officials treated Lewandowski in many ways as an equal to Noem. In one email, Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Troy Edgar directed his top aide, Clark Barrow, to come up with a few items to report up to “S1 and Corey.”S1 was shorthand in department communications for Noem.
信息还显示，莱万多夫斯基经常收到与埃德加和诺姆相同的高层简报邮件——一次是关于国土安全部领导层密切关注的一起驱逐案件，另一次是关于在吉布提的行动。
Messages also show that Lewandowski often received the same emailed high-level briefings as Edgar and Noem — in one instance about a deportation case that DHS leadership was closely watching, in another about operations in Djibouti.
这些信息的披露正值众参两院民主党人准备于 1 月重夺国会控制权之际，他们已将莱万多夫斯基和诺姆列为调查特朗普政府移民打压行动的主要目标。这些信息也引发新的疑问：莱万多夫斯基在该部门究竟施加了多大权力，以及他在多大程度上未经诺姆意见便代表她行事。
The disclosure of the messages comes as House and Senate Democrats, gearing up to retake control of Congress in January, have homed in on Lewandowski and Noem as major targets for investigations into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. And they raise new questions about the sheer power that Lewandowski exerted over the department and the extent to which he acted on behalf of Noem without her input.
在许多交流中诺姆均未出现，仅在由莱万多夫斯基主导的对话中零星插话。在一次交流中，当埃德加提到国土安部新闻办公室的官员曾帮他撰写一篇评论文章，并把一名官员误认为另一名时，诺姆似乎感到惊讶，随后表示她“已与科里核实，不是同一个人”。
Absent in many of the exchanges was Noem, who only chimed in sporadically in exchanges dominated by Lewandowski. Noem in one exchange appeared to be alarmed when Edgar mentioned that officials who worked in the DHS press office helped him on an opinion piece, confusing one official with another, and later said she “confirmed with Corey that it’s not the same” person.
信息中的其他官员包括当时的国土安全部发言人特里夏·麦克劳克林、当时的 ICE 副局长麦迪逊·希恩和当时的国土安全部高级官员约瑟夫·马扎拉。三人定期在这些有莱万多夫斯基参与的 Signal 群聊中汇报部门项目进展。
The other officials in the messages included then-DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, then-ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan and then-DHS senior official Joseph Mazzara. All three regularly gave status updates about department projects to these Signal chats where Lewandowski was involved.
麦克劳克林被联系置评时未谈及莱万多夫斯基的角色，但表示这些信息显示她在执行与其职位相关的任务。莱昂斯和希恩未回应置评请求。
McLaughlin did not discuss Lewandowski’s role when reached for comment, but said the messages showed her executing the tasks associated with her job. Lyons and Sheahan did not respond to requests for comment.
这些交流还表明，国土安全部高级官员以格外欢快的心态对待驱逐出境工作。有一次，莱昂斯向同僚官员通报向第三国南苏丹驱逐出境的成功消息时，莱万多夫斯基回复道：“赞美耶稣。”一周后的另一段交流中，莱万多夫斯基宣称“我爱驱逐出境”。美国监督组织认为，这些文件应促使对国土安全部进行进一步审查。
The exchanges also indicate that senior DHS officials approached the work of deportations with particular glee. At one point, when Lyons updated his fellow officials about the success of a third-country deportation to South Sudan, Lewandowski wrote back: “Praise Jesus.”An exchange a week later saw Lewandowski proclaim “I love deportations.”American Oversight argues the documents should prompt additional scrutiny of DHS.
美国监督组织执行主任奇奥马·丘库表示：“由于部分涉事官员仍在国土安全部担任要职，且针对第三方遣返的法律挑战仍在诉讼中，国会有责任展开调查——要求给出答案，获取这些决策如何作出的每一份记录，并让那些官员宣誓作证。”
“As some of the officials involved still hold positions of power at DHS, and legal challenges to third party removals are still being litigated, Congress has a duty to investigate — to demand answers, obtain every record of how these decisions were made, and put those officials under oath,” said American Oversight Executive Director Chioma Chukwu.