2026-08-30T09:46:27-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯 移民通讯记者
卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的移民通讯记者，其报道在多个节目和平台播出，包括全国广播节目、CBS News 24/7、CBSNews.com以及该机构的社交媒体账号。
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据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻获取的美国政府内部文件显示，在10天时间里，特朗普政府将超过100名来自阿富汗、古巴、尼加拉瓜等国的被遣返者送往非洲8个国家，扩大了其“第三国”遣返行动。
政府文件显示，美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）的三次遣返航班将数十名男女驱逐出美国，分别送往布隆迪、喀麦隆、中非共和国、赤道几内亚、斯威士兰、利比里亚、卢旺达和塞拉利昂。
根据文件内容，所有被遣返者都并非来自他们被遣送至的国家。除阿富汗人、古巴人和尼加拉瓜人外，过去一周半的ICE航班还搭载了来自伊朗、尼泊尔、土耳其和委内瑞拉的被遣返者，以及并非来自接收国的非洲被拘留者。
这些此前从未被报道过的联邦文件，揭开了特朗普政府强化“第三国”遣返协议运动的冰山一角：该运动旨在将被遣返者驱逐至与其毫无关联的偏远国家。
全球已有30多个国家同意接收美国的此类遣返人员，其中包括哥斯达黎加、巴拿马和巴拉圭等拉美国家。但越来越多的非洲国家与特朗普政府达成了第三国遣返协议，其中包括饱受武装冲突、政治动荡和人权暴行困扰的中非共和国、刚果民主共和国和南苏丹等国。
这些国际协议大多处于保密状态，但似乎加纳和塞拉利昂等国仅同意接收来自非洲其他地区的被遣返者。斯威士兰、中非共和国和利比里亚等国则接收了来自拉丁美洲、欧洲和亚洲的被拘留者。
特朗普政府遣送至非洲的部分被遣返者除移民违规外，还有犯罪记录，包括被送往斯威士兰和南苏丹的被拘留者，这些国家的官员曾将在美国被判犯有暴力和严重罪行的被遣返者监禁。但许多被送往其他国家的被遣返者除非法入境美国或未持有合法居留证件外，没有任何犯罪前科。
ICE三次飞往非洲的航班中，最新一次将被拘留者送往塞拉利昂和中非共和国。这里长期存在武装冲突，俄罗斯雇佣兵活动猖獗，使这个内陆国家成为全球最危险的国家之一。美国国务院发布的“4级”旅行警告称，鉴于普遍存在的暴力和不安全状况，美国人应以任何理由避免前往该国。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已向国土安全部和国务院置评请求，询问有关向非洲遣返人员的事宜。
国土安全部周日在给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一份声明中表示：“如果非法外籍人士选择在法庭上提出申请，拒绝返回其祖国，我们依法必须为他们找到一个安全可靠的国家。如果非法外籍人士选择回国，我们将为他们提供免费航班和3000美元的现金补助。选择权在他们手中。”
据其律师和兄弟透露，最近一次航班中被遣送至中非共和国的人员中，有一名阿富汗男子，其家人曾帮助美国军队对抗塔利班，且他在美国移民法庭获得了法律保护。
现年24岁的阿富汗被遣返者哈利勒，2024年在穿越拉美后非法越过美墨边境，据其移民律师透露。他在美国期间一直被ICE拘留。其移民律师表示，哈利勒前来与兄弟团聚，其中一名兄弟因在阿富汗军队中与美国军方合作，于2014年被带到美国。法律文件显示，哈利勒的另一名兄弟曾作为飞行员对抗塔利班，并在战争中阵亡。
法律文件显示，2025年8月，在被拘留期间，一名美国移民法官授予哈利勒“驱逐禁止”的法律保护，认定他在阿富汗可能会遭受迫害。他未获得庇护——这是一种更长期的法律保护，因为拜登时期的一项政策规定，寻求庇护者在抵达美国领土前未在其他国家寻求保护的，将丧失申请资格。
尽管这项保护措施禁止ICE将哈利勒遣返回阿富汗，但并未从法律上阻止将其驱逐至第三国。特朗普政府日益倾向于将那些在移民法庭获得有限保护（如驱逐禁止）的人员遣送至第三国。
“其目的是摧毁全球难民保护体系，他的案件应成为人们对这种不合情理后果的警示，”哈利勒的移民律师阿尔玛·戴维说道。由于哈利勒的家人担心他或亲属可能成为塔利班的目标，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻未披露哈利勒的姓氏。
曾在阿富汗部署期间监督哈利勒兄弟的现役海军陆战队上校扎卡里·施密特表示，他担心哈利勒在冲突不断的中非共和国的安全，以及他被遣返回祖国的可能性。他称自己曾目睹塔利班激进分子对哈利勒家人发出的威胁。
“我认为，如果哈利勒被送回阿富汗，他会被杀害，”施密特以个人身份告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
曾在哈利勒的移民法庭案件中作证的施密特指出，美国与那些同意在阿富汗协助美国战争行动的阿富汗人达成了“协议”。
“协议内容是，如果你帮助我们，帮助重建你的国家，我们会照顾你和你的家人，”施密特说道。“我们必须信守这个承诺。”
ICE deports Afghans and others to Africa, expanding “third country” deportations
2026-08-30T09:46:27-0400 / CBS News
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez Immigration Correspondent
Camilo Montoya-Galvez is the Immigration Correspondent at CBS News, where his reporting is featured across multiple programs and platforms, including national broadcast shows, CBS News 24/7, CBSNews.com and the organization’s social media accounts.
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Over a 10-day period, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua and other nations to eight countries across Africa, expanding its “third country” deportation campaign, according to internal U.S. government documents obtained by CBS News.
Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights, the government documents show, dropped off dozens of men and women expelled from the U.S. in Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
None of the deportees were from the countries where they were deported, according to the documents. In addition to Afghans, Cubans and Nicaraguans, the ICE flights over the past week and a half included deportees from Iran, Nepal, Turkey and Venezuela, as well as African detainees who are not from the nations where they were sent.
The federal documents, which have not been previously reported on, offer a window into the Trump administration’s intensifying campaign to use “third country” deportation agreements to banish groups of deportees to far-flung countries where they have no ties.
More than 30 countries across the globe have agreed to receive such deportations from the U.S., including some in Latin America like Costa Rica, Panama and Paraguay. But a growing number of African countries have brokered third-country deportation deals with the Trump administration, including nations like the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, plagued by armed conflict, political tumult and human rights abuses.
The international agreements have largely been shrouded in secrecy, but it appears some countries, like Ghana and Sierra Leone, have only agreed to accept deportees from other places in Africa. Countries like Eswatini, the Central African Republic and Liberia have received detainees from Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Some of those deported to Africa by the Trump administration have criminal records in addition to immigration violations, including the detainees sent to Eswatini and South Sudan, where officials have imprisoned deportees convicted of violent and serious crimes in the U.S. But many of the deportees sent to other countries lack any criminal histories, beyond entering the U.S. illegally or not having the proper documents to stay in the country.
The latest of three ICE flights to Africa dropped off detainees in Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic, where longstanding armed conflict and Russian mercenaries have made the landlocked country one of the most dangerous in the world. A “Level 4” U.S. State Department advisory warns Americans to avoid traveling there for any reason, given widespread violence and insecurity.
CBS News reached out to the Departments of Homeland Security and State seeking comment on the deportations to Africa.
“If an illegal alien chooses to file a claim in court refusing to go to their home country, we are required by law to find a safe and secure nation for them to go to. If an illegal alien chooses to go home, we will give them a free flight home and a $3,000 check,” DHS said in a statement to CBS News on Sunday. “The choice is theirs.”
Among those deported to the Central African Republic on the most recent flight was an Afghan man whose family helped American forces fight the Taliban and who won legal protection in a U.S. immigration court, according to his lawyer and brother.
Khalil, the 24-year-old Afghan deportee, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in 2024, after traveling across Latin America, according to his immigration lawyer. He was held by ICE in custody during his entire time in the U.S. His immigration lawyer said Khalil came to join his brothers, one of whom was brought to the U.S. in 2014 because of his work alongside American military forces while in the Afghan Army. Legal documents indicate another of Khalil’s brothers fought the Taliban as a pilot and was killed during the war.
In August 2025, while detained, Khalil was granted a legal protection, known as “withholding of removal,” by a U.S. immigration judge who found he could face persecution in Afghanistan, legal documents show. He did not get asylum, a more permanent legal protection, because of a Biden-era policy that disqualified asylum-seekers who failed to seek protection in other countries before reaching American soil, according to the documents.
While that protection barred ICE from returning Khalil to Afghanistan, it did not legally prevent his deportation to a third country. And the Trump administration has increasingly sought to deport those who’ve won limited protections in immigration court, like withholding of removal, to third countries.
“The goal is to obliterate the global refugee protection system, and his case should serve as a warning of the unconscionable consequences,” said Alma David, Khalil’s immigration lawyer. CBS News is not disclosing Khalil’s surname due to concerns from his family that he or relatives could be targeted by the Taliban.
Zachary Schmidt, an active-duty Marine colonel who supervised Khalil’s brother during his deployment to Afghanistan, said he’s concerned about Khalil’s safety in the conflict-ridden Central African Republic and the prospect that he could be returned to his homeland. He said he’s seen threats made by Taliban militants against Khalil’s family.
“It is my belief that if Khalil gets sent back to Afghanistan, that he will be killed,” Schmidt told CBS News, speaking in his personal capacity.
Schmidt, who testified in Khalil’s immigration court case, noted the U.S. made a “deal” with Afghans who agreed to aid the American war effort in Afghanistan.
“The deal is that if you help us, and help rebuild your country, we will look out for you. We’ll help you and your family,” Schmidt said. “We have to keep that promise.”