2026-08-27T17:58:19.815Z / 路透社
2025年8月26日，美国得州阿灵顿，一名美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）员工的Polo衫上绣有ICE徽章。路透社/谢尔比·陶贝尔 购买授权使用
- 概要
- 联邦法官在获释数小时前拒绝下令引渡
- ICE特工克里斯蒂安·卡斯特罗因枪击 unarmed男子被控袭击
- 明尼苏达州当局称卡斯特罗有逃往墨西哥的潜逃风险
8月27日（路透社）——周四，一名美国移民特工从得州监狱获释，数小时前，一名联邦法官拒绝下令将其引渡至明尼苏达州，以面临袭击罪名，因其在去年冬季明尼阿波利斯驱逐行动期间枪击一名手无寸铁的委内瑞拉男子。
据卡梅伦县警长办公室发言人表示，被明尼苏达州当局通缉的移民与海关执法局官员克里斯蒂安·卡斯特罗于当地时间早上7点左右获释，自5月29日他在墨西哥湾沿岸边境城市布朗斯维尔被捕后，他一直被关押在该监狱。
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一名联邦法官周三驳回了明尼苏达州的请求，该请求要求法院下令强迫得州州长格雷格·雅培签署引渡卡斯特罗的引渡令，并在引渡令签署前继续关押卡斯特罗，而雅培对此提出反对。
裁决作出后，警长曼努埃尔·特雷维诺表示，根据得州法律，对于任何等待引渡超过90天的人员，他打算周四释放卡斯特罗。
卡斯特罗获释后的行踪目前不明。记者未能联系到他置评，也不清楚他是否已聘请法律代表。
明尼苏达州当局在法庭上辩称，卡斯特罗有潜逃风险，如果获释，他可以轻易逃往墨西哥。
提起寻求法院下令引渡诉讼的明尼苏达州总检察长基思·埃利森在周三裁决后的一份声明中表示：“格雷格·雅培正在将得州变成暴力罪犯的避难州。”
卡斯特罗在明尼苏达州亨内平县面临四项使用危险武器实施二级重罪袭击的指控，以及一项虚假报案的罪名。
此案源于卡斯特罗于1月14日枪击胡利奥·塞萨尔·索萨-塞利斯，当时后者腿部受伤，正值美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的驱逐行动正处于高潮，地点在明尼阿波利斯。检察官表示，卡斯特罗还编造了一份后来被视频证据推翻的说法，称另有两人用扫帚柄和雪铲袭击了他。
此次明尼阿波利斯驱逐行动被称为“地铁突袭行动”，引发了数周的抗议活动，抗议者与ICE特工之间发生对峙，移民官员在对峙中枪杀了两名美国公民。
ICE特工的潜逃身份存疑
这起涉及委内瑞拉国民索萨-塞利斯枪击案，成为两位知名州长之间围绕移民管控的政治导火索，而移民管控是即将到来的中期国会选举中两党共同关注的主要竞选议题。
共和党人格雷格·雅培是特朗普驱逐行动的直言不讳的支持者，而包括州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹在内的明尼苏达州民主党领导人则谴责特朗普在明尼阿波利斯和其他城市部署武装ICE巡逻队。
在周一提交的法庭简报中，雅培质疑是否应将卡斯特罗归类为逃犯并因此面临引渡，因为枪击事件发生后，他并未逃离明尼苏达州，而是被ICE的上级部门将他重新分配到位于得州的总部。
明尼苏达州当局反驳称，卡斯特罗如何以及为何最终来到得州的问题无关紧要，美国宪法和联邦法律要求各州引渡其他州通缉的人员。
在听取案件辩论后的一天后，美国地区法官小费尔南多·罗德里格斯周三站在得州官员一边，裁定雅培并未被证明拒绝引渡请求，只是尚未作出决定。罗德里格斯得出结论，法律并未要求雅培在特定时限内移交逃犯。
罗德里格斯承认卡斯特罗获释后可能试图逃离美国，“给明尼苏达州的公诉工作带来困难”，但认为这一前景并未改变他的法律结论。
“法院不知道有任何权威支持在这种情况下由法院设定最后期限，”在特朗普第一任期内被任命为联邦法官的罗德里格斯在其长达13页的意见书中写道。
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ICE agent freed from Texas jail in defiance of Minnesota extradition request
2026-08-27T17:58:19.815Z / Reuters
The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is embroidered on a polo shirt of an ICE employee in Arlington, Texas, U.S. August 26, 2025. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber Purchase Licensing Rights
- Summary
- Federal judge refused to order extradition hours before release
- ICE agent Christian Castro charged with assault in shooting of unarmed man
- Minnesota authorities say Castro poses flight risk to Mexico
Aug 27 (Reuters) – A U.S. immigration agent was freed from a Texas jail on Thursday hours after a federal judge refused to order his extradition to Minnesota to face assault charges for shooting an unarmed Venezuelan man during last winter’s deportation surge in Minneapolis.
Christian Castro, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer wanted by Minnesota authorities, was released at about 7 a.m. local time from the lockup where he had been held since his May 29 arrest in the Gulf Coast border city of Brownsville, according to a Cameron County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson.
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A federal judge on Wednesday denied Minnesota’s request for a court order to compel Texas Governor Greg Abbott, over his objections, to sign the rendition warrant for Castro’s extradition, and to keep Castro locked up until then.
Following the ruling, Sheriff Manuel Trevino said he intended to release Castro on Thursday as required under Texas law for anyone still awaiting extradition after 90 days.
Castro’s whereabouts after he walked free were not immediately known. He could not be reached for comment, and it was unclear whether he had secured legal representation.
Minnesota authorities had argued in court that Castro was a flight risk who could easily abscond to Mexico if he were released.
“Greg Abbott is turning Texas into a sanctuary state for violent criminals,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who filed the lawsuit seeking a court-ordered extradition, said in a statement after Wednesday’s ruling.
Castro is wanted in Hennepin County, Minnesota, on four felony counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and a charge of falsely reporting a crime.
The case stems from Castro’s shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who was wounded in the leg on January 14, at the height of U.S. President
Donald Trump’s
deportation campaign in Minneapolis. Prosecutors say Castro also fabricated an account, later disproven by video evidence, that two other people attacked him with a broom handle and snow shovel.
The Minneapolis deportation sweep, called Operation Metro Surge, drew weeks of demonstrations and confrontations between protesters and ICE agents in which immigration officers fatally shot two U.S. citizens.
ICE AGENT’S FUGITIVE STATUS QUESTIONED
The case surrounding the shooting of Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan national, has lingered as a political flashpoint between two prominent governors over immigration control, a major campaign issue for Democrats and Republicans alike in the coming midterm congressional elections.
Abbott, a Republican, is an outspoken supporter of Trump’s deportation efforts, while Minnesota’s Democratic leaders, including Governor Tim Walz, have condemned Trump’s surge of armed ICE patrols in Minneapolis and other cities.
In a court brief filed on Monday, Abbott questioned whether Castro should be classified as a fugitive, and thus subject to extradition, because he did not flee Minnesota but rather was reassigned to his home base in Texas by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency, after the shooting.
Minnesota authorities countered that the issue of how or why Castro ended up in Texas is immaterial, and that the U.S. Constitution and federal law require states to extradite people wanted for crimes in another state.
Siding with Texas officials a day after hearing arguments in the case, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. ruled on Wednesday that Abbott had not been shown to have refused the extradition request, only that he had not yet made a decision. Rodriguez concluded that the law does not require Abbott to turn over a fugitive within a certain time frame.
Rodriguez acknowledged the possibility that Castro could attempt to flee the U.S. after his release and “impose a hardship on Minnesota’s prosecutorial efforts,” but found that prospect does not alter his legal conclusions.
“The Court is unaware of any authority supporting the creation of a court-imposed deadline under these circumstances,” Rodriguez, appointed to the federal bench during Trump’s first term in the White House, wrote in his 13-page opinion.
Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Bill Berkrot
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