2026-07-28 10:02:14 / 路透社
自2025年1月以来，难民安置办公室已向移民海关执法局提供超46万条线索，内部数据显示
移民儿童目前在难民安置办公室羁押时长平均近200天
移民儿童照料此前与移民执法互不干涉
7月28日（路透社电）——奥罗拉6岁的女儿独自抵达美国边境，在儿童移民收容所待了半年多，而当时已身处美国的她正设法将女儿接出。
母女俩终于在3月底团聚。
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“我们欣喜若狂，”24岁的奥罗拉说道，她和故事中的其他受访者一样，要求仅以名相称。
然而几天后，根据记录显示，母女二人被美国移民和海关执法局逮捕，并送往德克萨斯州的家庭羁押中心。
据路透社独家审阅的政府内部数据显示，在唐纳德·特朗普第二任期内，美国移民当局根据难民安置办公室提供的线索逮捕了逾1.2万人，奥罗拉母女便是其中之一。
难民安置办公室于1980年成立，旨在重新安置逃离战争和迫害的难民。自21世纪初以来，该机构还负责照料美墨边境入境的无人陪伴移民儿童，比如奥罗拉的女儿。
这些儿童的照料工作此前一直与移民执法互不干涉。2008年的一项法律旨在确保他们被安置在限制最少的环境中，并在确保安全的前提下尽快释放，无论其担保人的法律身份如何。
这意味着移民家庭可以团聚，无需担心成为移民海关执法局的目标，即便他们非法身处美国。
特朗普政府采取了截然不同的做法。数据显示，自2025年1月以来，难民安置办公室已向移民海关执法局分享了超过46万条“线索”，涉及无人陪伴儿童、其担保人——通常为父母或其他亲属——以及其他家庭成员，使他们面临被拘留和驱逐的风险。
虽然路透社和其他媒体曾报道过难民安置办公室与移民海关执法局之间合作日益加深的情况，但本篇报道首次披露了用于移民执法的信息共享规模。
对移民家庭、法律倡导者以及现任和前任美国官员的采访，展现了这一政策转变的深远影响及其造成的人员代价。
曾在拜登政府期间担任难民安置办公室副主任的珍·斯迈尔斯表示，与移民海关执法局共享数据的保障措施已被“彻底推翻”。
“他们将儿童福利计划武器化，以实现更多驱逐行动，”她说道。
难民安置办公室在给路透社的一份声明中表示，其“不参与逮捕儿童”，并将有关移民执法的问题转交给移民海关执法局的上级机构——国土安全部。
在回应路透社的提问时，国土安全部表示，在特朗普第二任期内，“难民安置办公室已向移民海关执法局国土安全调查部门提供潜在调查线索”，作为寻找被安置给“未审核担保人”的无人陪伴儿童工作的一部分，这些担保人中包括一些有犯罪记录的人。
“我整日劳作”
奥罗拉两年前非法进入美国，寻求工作和安全保障。
她将女儿留在墨西哥乡村的亲戚家中，担心女儿太小无法穿越危险的沙漠。
奥罗拉在密西西比州找到了一份家政清洁工的工作。她表示，去年8月，一名亲戚带着女儿抵达边境，让她向移民官员自首，这是寻求团聚的家庭常用的策略。
官员们将女孩转移到移民儿童收容所，奥罗拉开始了让女儿获释的审核流程。
在六个月的时间里，她向该机构提供了大量文件，包括DNA检测证明。文件显示，她没有犯罪记录。
在特朗普政府时期，担保人的审核流程新增了多项步骤，包括要求所有家庭成员提供指纹。因此，根据难民安置办公室的数据，无人陪伴儿童的羁押时长从2024财年的平均30天增至2026年6月的194天。
难民安置办公室拒绝就具体案件置评，但表示其加强审核的目的是保护儿童免受伤害。
奥罗拉说，在与女儿团聚的前一天，移民官员到访了她的住所，询问了女孩的情况，并让她下周到移民海关执法局办公室报到。
奥罗拉回忆称，在那次会面中，官员们“问我在美国是否有任何问题，我说‘没有，因为我没做过任何错事。我整日劳作。’”
记录显示，她和女儿在这次会面时被逮捕，并被送往德克萨斯州迪利的家庭羁押中心。
她们在那里待了三周。获释后，奥罗拉被戴上脚镣监控器，并被要求定期报到，等待移民法庭案件的结果，记录显示。国土安全部证实了奥罗拉被拘留和释放的细节，称她承认自己“非法偷渡越境”。
在羁押期间，她在密西西比州的房东将她驱逐出境，并扔掉了她的财物。于是母女二人前往加利福尼亚州，一位朋友为她们提供了住处。
奥罗拉表示，她担心自己和女儿很快会被驱逐。
有时在晚上，她的女儿“会醒来哭泣，以为自己还被羁押着，”她的母亲说道。
担保人遭牵连逮捕
奥罗拉和女儿至少还能团聚。其他家庭则再次被拆散。
马伦妮和她最小的儿子于2023年逃离危地马拉的暴力事件。他们非法穿越美国边境，在德克萨斯州定居，马伦妮在建筑工地做清洁工。
她的大儿子维克多留在国内的亲戚家中。当他的叔叔被杀后，他也决定北上，向美国边境官员自首。
在难民安置办公室羁押四个月后，维克多于4月底获释，也就是他18岁生日的前一天，记录显示。全家举办了派对庆祝。
“我太开心了，”马伦妮说道。“那时我不知道上帝为我准备了什么。”
为了让维克多获释，她说她向难民安置办公室提供了她和伴侣的大量文件，包括纳税记录和指纹。因为他们没有犯罪记录——她称他们“干干净净，干干净净，干干净净”——所以她对分享这些信息毫无顾虑。
然而，在维克多获释两个月后，移民海关执法局的特工在马伦妮和伴侣准备开车上班时，持枪将他们逮捕。
在回应提问时，国土安全部告诉路透社，移民海关执法局是在对马伦妮的“室友”——显然指的是她的伴侣——执行刑事搜查令。国土安全部没有回答后续问题，包括指控罪行的性质或他们如何找到他的。
马伦妮说，看到枪支让人创伤，让她想起了在危地马拉留下的暴力场景。
一名目睹逮捕过程的邻居通知了维克多，当时他正和6岁的弟弟在公寓里。他流着泪给加尔维斯顿-休斯顿移民代理项目的法律助理打了电话。
“我们见过太多担保人被逮捕，以及他们身边的人也遭到牵连逮捕，”GHIRP的管理律师亚历克萨·森杜卡斯说道。
维克多现在独自照顾他的小弟弟。他母亲被捕后，他本应出庭，但他说在随后的混乱中忘记了出庭。
现在面临驱逐令，他希望找到律师重新开启他的移民案件。
“我需要继续向前，”他说道。
本报记者克里斯蒂娜·库克在旧金山报道；杰西·梅斯纳-哈奇和迪帕·巴宾顿编辑
Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency
2026-07-28 10:02:14 / Reuters
ORR shared more than 460,000 leads with ICE since January 2025, internal data showed
Migrant children now spending an average of nearly 200 days in ORR custody
Care of migrant children previously walled off from immigration enforcement
July 28 (Reuters) – Aurora’s 6-year-old daughter arrived at the U.S. border alone and spent more than half a year in a child migrant shelter while her mother, who was already in the country, worked to get her out.
The two were finally reunited in late March.
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“We were overjoyed,” said Aurora, 24, who like others in this story spoke on the condition they be identified only by their first names.
Days later, however, mother and daughter were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to a family detention center in Texas, records show.
They are among more than 12,000 people arrested by U.S. immigration authorities following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to internal government data reviewed exclusively by Reuters.
ORR was created in 1980 to resettle refugees fleeing war and persecution. Since the early 2000s, the agency has also been charged with housing unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, like Aurora’s daughter.
The care of these children has historically been walled off from immigration enforcement. A 2008 law sought to ensure they were placed in the least restrictive setting and released from detention as soon as safely possible, regardless of their sponsors’ legal status.
That meant migrant families could be reunited without fear of being targeted by ICE, even if they were in the country illegally.
The Trump administration has taken a drastically different approach. Since January 2025, the data shows, ORR has shared more than 460,000 “leads” with ICE about unaccompanied children, their sponsors — usually parents or other relatives — and additional household members, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation.
While Reuters and others have reported on the growing cooperation between ORR and ICE, this story is the first to reveal the scale of the information shared for immigration enforcement.
Interviews with migrant families, legal advocates and current and former U.S. officials illustrate the far-reaching implications of this policy shift and its human toll.
Jen Smyers, who served as deputy director of ORR during the Biden administration, said safeguards against data sharing with ICE have been “completely reversed.”
“They are weaponizing a child welfare program for the purposes of more deportations,” she said.
In a statement to Reuters, ORR said it “plays no role in the apprehension of children,” referring questions about immigration enforcement to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency.
In response to questions from Reuters, DHS said that during Trump’s second term “ORR has provided ICE Homeland Security Investigations with potential investigative leads,” as part of an effort to locate unaccompanied children who were placed with “unvetted sponsors,” including some with criminal records.
‘ALL I DO IS WORK’
Aurora entered the United States illegally two years ago in search of work and safety.
She left her daughter with family in their rural Mexican village, fearing she was too young for the dangerous desert crossing.
Aurora found a job as a house cleaner in Mississippi. Last August, she said, a relative brought her daughter to the border and left her to surrender to immigration agents, a common strategy among families seeking reunification.
Officials transferred the girl to a migrant children’s shelter and Aurora began the vetting process to get her out.
Over the course of six months, she provided the agency with reams of documentation, including a DNA test. She had no criminal record, documents show.
Under Trump, the screening process for sponsors now includes a number of extra steps, including requiring fingerprints of all household members. As a consequence, the amount of time unaccompanied children spend in custody has increased from an average of 30 days in fiscal year 2024 to 194 days in June 2026, according to ORR figures.
ORR declined to comment on specific cases but said its increased vetting is meant to shield children from harm.
The day before being reunited with her daughter, Aurora said, immigration agents visited her at home, asked about the girl, and told her to report to an ICE office the following week.
At that appointment, Aurora recounted, agents “asked me if I had any problems in the U.S. and I said ‘no, because I haven’t done anything wrong. All I do is work.’”
She and her daughter were detained at the appointment, records show, and sent to a family detention center in Dilley, Texas.
They were there for three weeks. Upon their release, Aurora was fitted with an ankle monitor and instructed to report for regular check-ins pending the outcome of her immigration court case, records show. DHS confirmed details of Aurora’s detention and release, saying she had admitted to being “illegally smuggled across the border.”
While she was inside, her landlord in Mississippi evicted her and threw out her belongings. So mother and daughter headed to California, where a friend offered to put them up.
Aurora says she fears they will soon be deported.
At night sometimes, her daughter “gets up and cries, thinking she is still detained,” her mother said.
SPONSORS SWEPT UP
Aurora and her daughter are at least together. Other families have been separated again.
Marleny and her youngest son fled violence in Guatemala in 2023. They crossed the U.S. border illegally and settled in Texas, where she cleaned construction sites.
Her older son, Victor, stayed with family back home. When his uncle was killed, he too decided to make the journey north and turned himself in to U.S. border agents.
After four months in ORR custody, Victor was released in late April, the night before his 18th birthday, records show. The family had a party to celebrate.
“I was so happy,” Marleny said. “I didn’t know then what God had in store for me.”
To get Victor out, she provided ORR with extensive documentation for both her and her partner, she said, including tax records and fingerprints. Because they had no criminal record — they were “clean clean clean,” she said — she had no qualms about sharing the information.
Two months after Victor was released, though, ICE agents arrested Marleny and her partner at gunpoint as they were getting in their car to go to work.
In response to questions, DHS told Reuters that ICE was executing a criminal search warrant on Marleny’s “roommate” – an apparent reference to her partner. DHS did not answer follow-up questions about the nature of the alleged crime or how they had located him.
Seeing the guns was traumatic, Marleny said, reminding her of the violence she left behind in Guatemala.
A neighbor who witnessed the arrest alerted Victor, who was in the family’s apartment with his 6-year-old brother. In tears, he called a legal assistant at the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project.
“We’ve seen so many sponsors arrested and collateral arrests with them,” said Alexa Sendukas, a managing attorney with GHIRP.
Victor is now caring for his little brother alone. He was due in court after his mother was arrested, but said he forgot to show up in the chaos that followed.
Now facing a deportation order, he hopes to find a lawyer to reopen his immigration case.
“I need to keep moving forward,” he said.
Reporting by Kristina Cooke in San Francisco; Editing by Jesse Mesner-Hage and Deepa Babington
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