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伊祖丘库·奥祖伦巴称，他曾被迫为尼日利亚“未知枪手”武装组织担任厨师，之后逃往美国
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一名被迫为与尼日利亚政治暴力相关的武装组织“未知枪手”烹制数千餐食的尼日利亚男子，正成为最高法院对决的焦点。这场对决可能决定移民当局可以在多大范围内以与恐怖主义相关的理由拒绝庇护申请，以及特朗普政府在驱逐被指控支持恐怖主义的移民方面可以走多远。
最高法院周二同意审理特朗普政府对一项裁决的上诉，该裁决推翻了尼日利亚公民伊祖丘库·奥祖伦巴的驱逐令，引发了一场法律争议：即便是为恐怖组织提供包括做饭在内的普通服务，即便这些服务与恐怖袭击没有直接关联，是否也会取消移民获得庇护的资格。
奥祖伦巴在上诉审理期间于2025年4月被驱逐回尼日利亚。
最高法院回归；这五起案件可能重塑美国人的生活
本案的核心是《移民与国籍法》中的一项条款，该条款禁止为恐怖组织提供“物质支持”的特定移民获得庇护。法律列举了被禁止的援助示例，包括运输、通讯、住房、金钱、武器和训练，但并未明确定义何为“物质支持”。
“最重要的一点是，这起案件关乎谁有权划定一条影响国家安全的法律界限，”美国前进组织高级法律研究员布莱斯·普尔对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，“国会制定了一项宽泛的规则，而法院对此作出了狭义解释。”
此案距最高法院推翻“谢弗遵从”原则已有两年时间，该法律原则要求法官尊重联邦机构对模糊法律的合理解释。2024年的这项裁决赋予法官更大的权力来裁定这些法律的含义。
美国最高法院同意审理一起可能重塑被指控为恐怖组织提供物质支持的移民的庇护资格认定的案件。（盖蒂图片社）
美国第四巡回上诉法院以2比1的投票结果推翻了奥祖伦巴的驱逐令，并将案件发回移民上诉委员会重审。
奥巴马任命的法官詹姆斯·温恩二世撰写了多数意见，拜登任命的法官妮可·伯纳加入了该意见。两位法官得出结论称，尽管奥祖伦巴为该组织的领导人烹制了数千餐食，但他的烹饪并未提供可直接用于或轻易转用于恐怖行动的资源。
尽管奥祖伦巴称自己是在暴力威胁下被迫做饭的，但第四巡回上诉法院并未裁定该法律是否包含胁迫下提供援助的例外条款——这一问题最高法院曾在2012年的一项依赖“谢弗遵从”原则的裁决中处理过。相反，多数法官认定，他为恐怖组织做饭的行为并不属于会剥夺其庇护资格的“物质支持”，这使得胁迫这一单独问题悬而未决。
特朗普政府辩称，第四巡回上诉法院对法律的解释过于狭隘，坚持认为即便像做饭这样的普通服务也有助于维持恐怖组织的运转，使其成员能够腾出时间实施袭击。
人们在美国公民及移民服务局办公室内等候。（约翰·摩尔/盖蒂图片社）
“因为他在做饭，所以一名武装警卫就不必做饭，可以继续担任武装警卫，”普尔说。
“这意味着一名警卫不必从警戒岗位抽身做饭，或者一名炸弹制造者不必停止制造炸弹去做饭，因为所有这些资源都是可替代的。”
奥祖伦巴表示，他最初同意在一个“乡村营地”担任厨师，每天为15至17名领导人准备三餐。后来他才得知该营地属于“未知枪手”组织。
一名移民法官认定，“未知枪手”符合联邦移民法中“三级”恐怖组织的标准，尽管美国国务院并未正式将该组织列为恐怖组织。
奥祖伦巴称，武装警卫阻止他离开。根据法庭记录，他为该组织领导人做饭约六个月，其中三个月没有拿到报酬，之后在一次进城采购杂货时逃脱。
奥祖伦巴于2023年越过美国南部边境，向边境巡逻人员自首，之后申请了庇护。（约翰·摩尔/盖蒂图片社）
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奥祖伦巴称，“未知枪手”组织成员在他逃脱后继续威胁和攻击他，促使他逃离尼日利亚前往委内瑞拉，最终抵达美国。他于2023年7月在拜登政府执政期间持无效入境文件越过南部边境，并向边境巡逻人员自首。
一名移民法官驳回了奥祖伦巴的庇护申请，并下令将其驱逐，移民上诉委员会在认定他的烹饪行为违反联邦物质支持规则后维持了这一裁决。第四巡回上诉法院后来驳回了这一解释，并将案件发回移民委员会重审。
朱利叶斯·理查森法官不同意多数意见，他在异议中辩称，为恐怖组织领导人烹制数千餐食会使他们能够专注于本组织的目标，因此构成物质支持。
“奥祖伦巴经营的并非‘未知枪手’偶尔光顾一两次的热狗摊，”理查森写道，“相反，他担任私人厨师，每天为十多名恐怖组织领导人提供三餐，长达数月之久。”
美国前进组织法律专家汉斯·冯·斯帕科夫斯基也辩称，多数法官对法律存在误读。
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“为恐怖组织及其领导人提供超过8000餐食却不算‘物质’支持，这种观点违背常识，”冯·斯帕科夫斯基对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，“理查森正确引用了拿破仑的名言：‘军队靠肚子行军’。”
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“其他联邦上诉法院均认定，即便与特定恐怖事件无关，提供食物和住所也属于该法律规定的物质支持，”冯·斯帕科夫斯基继续说道，“而且即便属实，在胁迫下提供援助也不能成为规避驱逐的法定借口。”
即便最高法院作出有利于奥祖伦巴的裁决，这一胜利也不会自动授予他庇护资格或保证他返回美国。他的案件仍需由移民当局重新审议。
第四巡回上诉法院此前曾下令政府将其带回美国，而是交由官员决定是否有必要让他在美国出席后续程序。
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Can cooking for terrorists bar asylum? Supreme Court takes up unusual case with broader immigration stakes
October 15, 2026 8:00pm EDT / Fox News
Izuchukwu Ozurumba says he was held captive as a cook for Nigeria’s Unknown Gunmen before fleeing to the US
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A Nigerian man forced to cook thousands of meals for the Unknown Gunmen, a militant group linked to political violence in Nigeria, is at the center of a Supreme Court showdown that could determine how broadly immigration authorities can apply a terrorism-related bar to asylum and how far the Trump administration can go in deporting immigrants accused of supporting terrorism.
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear the Trump administration’s challenge to a ruling that overturned Nigerian citizen Izuchukwu Ozurumba’s deportation order, setting up a legal battle over whether ordinary services provided to terrorist organizations, including cooking meals, can disqualify immigrants from receiving asylum even when those services are not directly connected to terrorist attacks.
Ozurumba was deported to Nigeria in April 2025 while his appeal was pending.
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At the center of the case is a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that bars certain immigrants who provide “material support” to terrorist organizations from receiving asylum. The law lists examples of prohibited assistance, including transportation, communications, housing, money, weapons and training, but it does not explicitly define what constitutes material support.
“The biggest takeaway is that this is a case about who gets to draw the line on a law that affects national security,” Bryce Poole, a senior legal fellow with Advancing American Freedom, told Fox News Digital. “Congress wrote a broad rule, and the court interpreted it narrowly.”
The case also comes two years after the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, a legal doctrine that required judges to defer to federal agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous laws. The 2024 ruling gave judges greater authority to decide what those laws mean.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could reshape asylum eligibility for immigrants accused of providing material support to terrorist organizations.(Getty Images)
The 4th Circuit, in a 2-1 ruling, overturned Ozurumba’s deportation order and sent the case back to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Judge James Wynn Jr., an Obama appointee, wrote the majority opinion, joined by Judge Nicole Berner, a Biden appointee. The judges concluded that, although Ozurumba prepared thousands of meals for the group’s leaders, his cooking did not provide resources that could be directly used or readily redirected toward terrorist operations.
Although Ozurumba said he was forced to cook under threat of violence, the 4th Circuit did not decide whether the law contains an exception for assistance provided under duress, an issue the court previously addressed in a 2012 ruling that relied on Chevron deference. Instead, the majority found that his cooking for the terrorist organization did not qualify as “material support” that would bar him from asylum, leaving the separate duress question unresolved.
The Trump administration argued that the 4th Circuit interpreted the law too narrowly, insisting that even ordinary services such as cooking meals can help sustain a terrorist organization and free its members to carry out attacks.
People wait inside a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office.(John Moore/Getty Images)
“Because he’s cooking the meals, one of the armed guards doesn’t have to cook the meals and can be an armed guard,” Poole said.
“That’s one guard who doesn’t have to come in off guard duty to cook meals, or that’s one bomb maker who doesn’t have to stop making bombs to go cook meals, because all this stuff is fungible.”
Ozurumba said he initially agreed to work as a chef at a “rural camp,” preparing three meals a day for 15 to 17 leaders. He later learned the camp belonged to the Unknown Gunmen.
An immigration judge determined that the Unknown Gunmen qualified as a “Tier III” terrorist organization under federal immigration law, even though the State Department had not formally designated the group as one.
Ozurumba said armed guards prevented him from leaving. According to court records, he cooked for the group’s leaders for roughly six months, including three months without pay, before escaping during a trip into town to buy groceries.
Ozurumba crossed the U.S. southern border in 2023, surrendered to Border Patrol agents and later applied for asylum.(John Moore/Getty Images)
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Ozurumba said members of the Unknown Gunmen continued threatening and attacking him after his escape, prompting him to flee Nigeria for Venezuela and eventually the United States. He crossed the southern border without valid entry documents in July 2023 during the Biden administration and surrendered to Border Patrol agents.
An immigration judge denied Ozurumba’s asylum request and ordered his deportation, a decision upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals after finding that his cooking violated the federal material-support rule. The 4th Circuit later rejected that interpretation and sent the case back to the immigration board.
Judge Julius Richardson disagreed with the majority, arguing in his dissent that cooking thousands of meals for terrorist leaders freed them to focus on their organization’s goals and therefore constituted material support.
“Ozurumba did not run a hot dog stand that the Unknown Gunmen happened to stop by once or twice,” Richardson wrote. “Rather, he acted as a private chef, providing three meals a day for over a dozen leaders of a terrorist organization — for months.”
Hans von Spakovsky, a legal expert with Advancing American Freedom, also argued that the majority misinterpreted the law.
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“The idea that providing over 8,000 meals for the leaders of a terrorist organization and its members is not ‘material’ defies common sense,” von Spakovsky told Fox News Digital. “Richardson correctly cites Napoleon’s famous quote that an ‘army marches on its stomach.’
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“Other federal appeals courts have all held that providing food and shelter, even if unconnected to a specific terrorist event, constitutes material support within the statute,” von Spakovsky continued. “And doing so under duress, even if true, is not an excuse under the statute to avoid removal.”
Even if the Supreme Court rules in his favor, a victory would not automatically grant him asylum or guarantee his return to the United States. His case would still need to be reconsidered by immigration authorities.
The 4th Circuit previously declined to order the government to bring him back, instead leaving it up to officials to decide whether his presence in the U.S. would be necessary for further proceedings.
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.