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大法官们暂缓了下级法院的裁决，该裁决限制美国国土安全部将外籍罪犯驱逐至其本国以外的国家
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨，福克斯新闻网
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6406037822112美国国土安全部律师揭露有争议的驱逐行动背后的困境：“挪威不会接收来自古巴的强奸犯”
美国国土安全部总法律顾问詹姆斯·珀西瓦尔向福克斯新闻数字频道解释了第三国驱逐政策为何能防止部分刑事移民被释放回美国社区，该政策目前正面临最高法院的审理。
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本周，最高法院暂时批准特朗普政府继续推行第三国驱逐政策，与此同时，美国国土安全部最高律师公开为这项移民执法权辩护，称此前多位总统基本未启用过该权力。
当可被驱逐的外籍人士无法被遣返回本国，或该国拒绝接收时，美国国土安全部越来越多地采用所谓的“第三国驱逐”。国土安全部总法律顾问詹姆斯·珀西瓦尔将此描述为特朗普政府重振现有移民执法法规整体战略的一部分。
“想象一下，你去到一个国家，说：‘嘿，我们这里有个人，他不是你们国家的人，而且他是个强奸犯，但能不能请他在你们国家生活？’”珀西瓦尔对福克斯新闻数字频道说道。
“这可不是个容易的请求。这需要耗费大量的外交精力……挪威不会接收来自古巴的强奸犯。”
特朗普驱逐非法移民的特殊战略为执法增添了又一工具
国土安全部总法律顾问詹姆斯·珀西瓦尔。（美国国土安全部官方肖像）
大法官们于周二暂缓了下级法院限制美国国土安全部该政策的判决，允许该政府指导意见继续生效，直至最高法院就案件实质问题进行审理。关于该机构的程序是否符合联邦移民法、正当程序以及反酷刑保障措施的辩论，定于12月举行。
此次案件并未直接挑战美国国土安全部开展第三国驱逐的基本权限，而是针对其此前必须遵循的程序。
“法律中明确规定我们可以这么做，”他说，“如果你回顾大多数移民法律，里面有很多非常实用的工具，只是人们一直没有使用过。”
第三国驱逐条款被纳入国会于1996年通过、比尔·克林顿总统签署的一项重大移民改革法案：《非法移民改革和移民责任法案》（IIRIRA）。
“政府里很多人对待自己的权限就像对待精美瓷器一样，”珀西瓦尔说道。
“他们害怕一旦真的使用这项权力，有人会把它夺走。如果你曾拥有过精美瓷器，你就会明白，你可能到了晚年都因为害怕打碎它而从未使用过它。”
特朗普针对罕见启用的18世纪驱逐法的斗争在最新法庭冲突中持续
最高法院已暂缓下级法院的禁令，该禁令阻止特朗普政府在未提供更充分正当程序的情况下将移民驱逐至第三国。（盖蒂图片社）
但珀西瓦尔的战略并非没有遭到人权倡导者的反对，他们最近指出有指控称，被驱逐者在赤道几内亚遭到当局殴打。赤道几内亚是非洲大西洋沿岸的一个小国，自1979年以来一直由特奥多罗·奥比昂总统执政。
奥比昂政府从华盛顿获得了750万美元，作为与马拉博政府达成的接收第三国被驱逐者协议的一部分。
“我也宁愿住在美国而不是赤道几内亚，但我是美国公民，而且我没有杀过人，”珀西瓦尔说。
这一拘留问题部分可追溯至最高法院2001年的一项判决，该案件涉及一名无国籍合法居民，政府因其犯罪记录下令将其驱逐。克斯图蒂斯·扎夫伊达斯在德国难民营出生，父母是立陶宛人，但立陶宛和德国都不愿接收他。
法院裁定，驱逐后拘留六个月是推定合理的，若无法合理预见可被遣返，此后的继续拘留可被质疑。
珀西瓦尔通过他在X平台上的“每日被驱逐者”系列节目公开宣扬这一观点，重点介绍那些本国不愿接收的刑事被驱逐者。
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“如果这个人是儿童强奸犯，并且已经服刑20年，我们有两个选择：找到一个第三国接收他——或者让这个儿童强奸犯住在美国社区里，”他说，并补充道，此举旨在帮助公众理解这一问题，并凸显其利害关系。
珀西瓦尔援引了缅甸公民觉亚·米亚的案例，他的祖国不愿接收他回国。
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珀西瓦尔表示，他计划介绍的另一起案件涉及一名犯下暴力罪行的移民，在服刑后被布什政府未予驱逐，据称获释后再次犯罪：
“[他]试图杀人，但枪卡壳了，所以他改用枪托殴打对方。他因此再次服刑，然后被释放，”珀西瓦尔解释道。
随着美国国土安全部继续寻求利用《非法移民改革和移民责任法案》及其他法律中未得到充分利用的工具，珀西瓦尔向非法移民和刑事外籍居民指出了国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马林一直保留的另一个常用选择：
“现在申请获得3000美元和一张回国机票还不算太晚。”
本文作者在宾夕法尼亚州艾伦敦出生并长大，自2013年起在福克斯新闻纽约和华盛顿分社工作。
DHS exposes dilemma behind SCOTUS deportation fight: ‘We have two choices’
October 3, 2026 10:00am EDT / Fox News
Justices stayed a lower-court ruling restricting DHS removals of criminal aliens to nations other than their home countries
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6406037822112DHS lawyer reveals dilemma behind controversial deportations: ‘Norway is not taking a rapist from Cuba’
DHS General Counsel James Percival tells Fox News Digital why third-country deportations can prevent some criminal migrants from being released back into U.S. communities as the policy faces a Supreme Court fight.
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The Supreme Court temporarily cleared the Trump administration to continue its third-country deportation policy this week, as DHS’ top lawyer mounts a public defense of an immigration authority the administration says previous presidents largely left dormant.
DHS has increasingly used so-called “third-country” removals when a removable alien cannot be returned to their home country or that country refuses to take them back — part of what agency General Counsel James Percival describes as a broader Trump strategy of reviving immigration authorities already on the books.
“Imagine going to a country and saying, hey, we’ve got a guy, he’s not your guy, and he’s a rapist, but can he please live there?” Percival told Fox News Digital.
“That’s not an easy ask. It requires significant diplomatic energy… Norway is not taking a rapist from Cuba.”
TRUMP’S SPECIAL STRATEGY TO DEPORT ILLEGALS GIVES HIM ANOTHER TOOL FOR ENFORCEMENT
Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival.(DHS official portrait)
The justices on Tuesday stayed a lower-court judgment restricting DHS’s policy, allowing the administration’s guidance to remain in effect while the Court considers the case on the merits. Arguments are set for December over whether agency procedures comply with federal immigration law, due process and safeguards against torture.
The case does not squarely challenge DHS’s underlying authority to conduct third-country removals, but rather the procedures it must follow beforehand.
“It’s in the statute expressly that we can do this,” he said. “If you go back and read most of the immigration laws, there’s a lot of really good tools in there that people just haven’t used.”
The third-country provision was included in a major immigration reform package passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996: the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA).
“A lot of people in government sort of treat their authority like fine china,” Percival remarked.
“They’re afraid if they ever actually use it, someone will take it away. And if you’ve ever owned fine china, it’s like you can find yourself at the end of your life and you were so afraid you would break it you never used it.”
TRUMP’S FIGHT OVER RARELY USED 18TH-CENTURY DEPORTATION LAW LIVES ON IN LATEST COURT CLASH
The Supreme Court has granted a stay against the lower court order blocking Trump admin deportations to third-party countries without more significant due process.(Getty Images)
But Percival’s strategy has not come without blowback from human rights advocates, who pointed most recently to allegations that deportees were beaten by authorities in Equatorial Guinea, a tiny nation on Africa’s Atlantic coast that has been under the control of President Teodoro Obiang since 1979.
Obiang’s government received $7.5 million from Washington as part of an agreement with Malabo to accept third-country deportations.
“I’d rather live in the United States than Equatorial Guinea too, but I’m an American citizen and I haven’t killed anybody,” Percival said.
The detention issue traces in part to the Supreme Court’s 2001 decision in a case involving a stateless legal resident whom the government ordered deported due to his criminal record. Kestutis Zadvydas was born to Lithuanian parents in a German displaced- persons camp, but neither Lithuania nor Germany would accept him.
The court held that six months of post-removal detention is presumptively reasonable, after which continued detention can be challenged if removal is not reasonably foreseeable.
Percival is making that case publicly through his “Daily Deportee” series on X, highlighting criminal deportees whose home countries will not accept them.
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“If the person is a child rapist and serves 20 years, we have two choices: Find a third country — or let the child rapist go live in an American community,” he said, adding that the effort is intended to shape public understanding of the issue and highlight its stakes.
Percival cited Burmese national Kyaw Mya, whose home country won’t take him back.
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Percival said another case he plans to feature involves a migrant who committed a violent crime, was not removed by the Bush administration after serving time and then allegedly reoffended after his release:
“[He] tried to kill somebody, the gun misfired, so he pistol-whipped them instead. He served time for that. He got out,” Percival explained.
As DHS continues seeking to use underutilized tools in the IIRIRA and other laws, Percival pointed illegal immigrants and criminal resident aliens to another oft-repeated option that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin continues to keep on the table:
“It’s not too late to get $3,000 and a flight home.”
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