作者：贾斯珀·沃德
2026年9月29日 美国东部时间晚上8:19 / 路透社
美国移民海关执法局（ICE）一名雇员的 polo 衫上印有该局徽章，摄于2025年8月26日美国得克萨斯州阿灵顿，当时该局正在举行为期两天的招聘会，旨在填补驱逐官员和律师岗位空缺。路透社/谢尔比·陶贝尔 摄
华盛顿9月29日路透电 — 周二公开的法庭文件显示，密歇根州一名护士被控在其工作的医院帮助一名墨西哥籍人士逃离美国移民海关执法局（ICE）羁押。
联邦调查局特别探员迈克尔·瓦格纳在一份刑事起诉书中称，现年33岁、来自密歇根州惠特莫尔湖的克洛伊·蕾妮·弗里曼于8月底被指控“蓄意”帮助一名面临美国递解出境的匿名移民在三一健康安阿伯医院逃脱联邦羁押。
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起诉书称，这名匿名墨西哥公民在5月28日试图逃离ICE探员时受伤。他被送往弗里曼工作的医院进行医疗评估，随后接受了CT扫描。
扫描完成后，弗里曼将该移民带离扫描室，起诉书称。监控录像显示，在弗里曼将他带走后不到三分钟，该男子便通过救护车通道大门离开了医院。
起诉书称，自此之后便无人知晓他的下落。
瓦格纳表示，弗里曼在6月18日的讯问中承认，她允许该男子离开医院。尽管她知道他是ICE被拘留者，但她称当时认为他并未被羁押，因为探员并未在CT室陪同他。
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“弗里曼告诉讯问人员，她不同意ICE将人们与家人分离的做法，并且她知道自己‘将要让他重获自由’，”瓦格纳在起诉书中写道。
他补充称，弗里曼表示她认为该男子可能会因伤势而死亡。
三一健康医院表示，弗里曼已不再受雇于该院。
美国国土安全部和弗里曼的律师未立即回复置评请求。
据《底特律新闻》报道，弗里曼预计将于周二在底特律联邦法院出庭。她的律师马修·博古拉告诉该报，弗里曼计划不认罪。
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Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
By Jasper Ward
2026-09-29 8:19 PM UTC / Reuters
The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is embroidered on a polo shirt of an ICE employee, at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement two-day job fair in Texas to help fill vacancies for deportation officers and attorneys, in Arlington, Texas, U.S. August 26, 2025. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – A Michigan nurse was charged with helping a Mexican national escape from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the hospital where she worked, court documents unsealed on Tuesday showed.
Chloe Renae Freeman, 33, of Whitmore Lake, Michigan, was charged in late August with “willfully” helping an unnamed immigrant subject to removal from the United States escape federal custody at Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital, FBI Special Agent Michael Wagner said in a criminal complaint.
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The unnamed Mexican citizen injured himself while trying to escape ICE agents on May 28, the complaint said. He was taken to the hospital, where Freeman worked, for a medical evaluation and later underwent a CT scan, Wagner said.
After the scan was completed, Freeman removed the immigrant from the scan room, according to the complaint. Security camera footage showed the man leaving the hospital through ambulance bay doors less than three minutes after Freeman retrieved him, the complaint said.
He has not been located since, according to the complaint.
Wagner said Freeman admitted during a June 18 interview that she allowed the individual to leave the hospital. While she knew he was an ICE detainee, she said she did not believe he was in custody at the time because agents were not physically with him in the CT room.
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“FREEMAN told the interviewers that she did not agree with ICE separating people from their families and that she knew she ‘was going to set him free,’” Wagner wrote in the complaint.
He added that Freeman said she believed the man could have died from his injuries.
Trinity Health said Freeman no longer works for the hospital.
The US Department of Homeland Security and a lawyer for Freeman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Freeman was expected to appear in federal court in Detroit on Tuesday, according to the Detroit News. Her lawyer, Matthew Borgula, told the newspaper that Freeman planned to plead not guilty.
Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Deepa Babington
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