2026-10-21 美国东部时间晚上11:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一名联邦法官于周三晚间裁定，美国国土安全部上门询问民众移民身份以及是否在近期选举中投票的做法，可能违反《投票权法案》。
此次裁决针对的是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻本周早些时候的调查所披露的一项行动。国土安全调查局曾发布多州探员上门走访的照片和视频。特朗普政府称，该举措旨在打击非公民投票行为，但批评人士表示，这可能会恐吓合法选民。
在裁决中，美国地区法官阿拉塞利·马丁内斯-奥尔金下令联邦移民当局停止在包括加利福尼亚州和纽约州在内的九个州开展“与选举相关的外勤行动和外勤约谈”，前提是这些行动可能涉及政府官员“知晓、怀疑，或理应知晓或怀疑是美国公民”的人群。
该禁令将持续到选举日投票站关闭。法官将裁决的暂缓执行期延长至周五下午5点，以便政府有机会提起上诉。
马丁内斯-奥尔金支持就此次非公民投票调查突击行动提起诉讼的多个团体，包括加利福尼亚护士协会和全国护士联合工会。她认定该政策可能违反了《投票权法案》中的一条条款，该条款将“恐吓、威胁或胁迫”协助他人投票或参与选民动员工作的行为定为非法。
“原告并未主张，也未被法院认定，联邦官员对联邦选举中的非法投票行为展开调查是非法的，”法官写道。“相反，原告旨在阻止国土安全部以恐吓和威胁加利福尼亚护士协会/全国护士联合工会成员敦促或协助他人投票的方式，调查拥有合法投票权的美国公民。”
马丁内斯-奥尔金还指出，政府用于编制潜在目标名单的流程“极有可能出错”，该名单整合了政府机构数据和商业公开数据。
就该政策提起诉讼的团体之一“保护民主”对裁决表示欢迎。
“从一开始就很明显，国土安全部的名单建立在糟糕的数据基础上，从未核查过错误率，却在选举前数周鲁莽地派遣探员上门，”“保护民主”的法律顾问博·特雷米蒂埃在发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一份声明中表示。“今天的裁决应该提醒我们，在美国的民主制度中，最终掌握权力的是美国公民，而非政府——无论本届政府如何反其道而行之。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系国土安全部置评。
特朗普总统在其第二任期内将打击选民欺诈列为优先事项，尽管几乎没有证据支持他关于非公民大规模投票的说法。根据司法部的数据，自特朗普政府上任以来，仅有156人因与投票欺诈相关的罪行被起诉。
司法部本周早些时候通报，该局在加利福尼亚州逮捕了数十名绿卡持有者，他们被指控非法登记参加美国联邦选举。
玛德琳·梅对本篇报道亦有贡献。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/armed-dhs-agents-knock-on-doors-in-search-for-possible-noncitizen-voters/
Judge rules against DHS’s policy of knocking on doors to track down possible noncitizen voters
2026-10-21 11:00 PM EDT / CBS News
A federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s practice of knocking on doors and asking people about their immigration status — and whether they have voted in recent elections — likely violates the Voting Rights Act.
The ruling took aim at an operation that was documented by a CBS News investigation earlier Wednesday. Homeland Security Investigations has posted photos and videos of agents approaching homes in multiple states. The Trump administration says the practice is part of an effort to crack down on voting by noncitizens, but critics say it could intimidate legal voters.
In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered federal immigration authorities to stop carrying out “elections-related field operations and field interviews” in nine states, including California and New York, if the operations are likely to involve people who government officials “know, suspect, or should reasonably know or suspect are U.S. citizens.”
Her order will remain in effect until polls close on Election Day. She stayed the ruling until 5 p.m. on Friday, which will give the government a chance to seek appeal.
Martinez-Olguin sided with groups that sued over the noncitizen voting investigation surge, including the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United. She found the policy likely ran afoul of a section of the Voting Rights Act that makes it illegal to “intimidate, threaten, or coerce” those who assist people with voting or engage in voter mobilization efforts.
“Plaintiffs do not claim, nor does the Court find, that it is unlawful for federal officials to undertake investigations into unlawful voting in federal elections,” the judge wrote. “Rather, Plaintiffs seek to stop DHS from continuing to investigate U.S. citizens, who have a legal right to vote, in a way that intimidates and threatens the participation of CNA/NNU members from urging or aiding others to vote.”
Martinez-Olguin also pointed to the “high likelihood of error” in the government’s process for assembling a list of potential targets, which includes data from government agencies and commercially available data.
Protect Democracy, one of the groups that sued over the policy, celebrated the ruling.
“It was clear from the start that DHS built its lists on bad data, never checked how often it was wrong, and recklessly sent agents to people’s homes weeks before an election,” Beau Tremitiere, counsel at Protect Democracy, said in a statement to CBS News. “Today’s ruling should remind us that American citizens hold the ultimate power in our democracy, not the government–no matter what the administration says otherwise.”
CBS News has reached out to DHS for comment.
President Trump has prioritized cracking down on voter fraud during his second term, although there has been little evidence to back up his claims of widespread voting by noncitizens. Just 156 people have been charged with voting-fraud related offenses since the beginning of the Trump administration, according to the Justice Department.
The Justice Department reported earlier this week that it arrested several dozen green card holders in California on allegations they illegally registered to vote in U.S. federal elections.
Madeleine May contributed to this report.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/armed-dhs-agents-knock-on-doors-in-search-for-possible-noncitizen-voters/
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