2026年8月19日 / 美国东部时间晚上7:05 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
特朗普政府正试图驱逐一名自称中央情报局间谍的男子，他在9/11事件后渗透入基地组织，并因协助定罪恐怖分子而获准在美国生活。
本月早些时候，移民和海关执法局特工在新泽西州一间移民办公室外逮捕了布莱里姆·斯科罗——这位出生于科索沃、育有三个孩子的父亲当时正在那里续签文件。
他的律师已向联邦法院提起诉讼，要求中止驱逐程序，称55岁的斯科罗作为“中情局特工”多年来付出了大量工作，曾被承诺可获得居留权。
斯科罗是纽约斯塔滕岛的一名出租车司机，拥有美国妻子和孩子。2022年，由于如果被驱逐回国可能会被恐怖分子抓捕并酷刑折磨，他获得了暂缓驱逐的许可。
他的律师称，这项裁决部分原因是斯科罗协助逮捕了基地组织、索马里青年党和真主党的成员。
如今他担心，这个他声称曾为之冒生命危险的政府，会将他遣返回科索沃——他称自己会落入那些想要置他于死地的人手中。
“我从未想过他们会这样背叛我，”他在新泽西州伊丽莎白拘留中心通过电话采访对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示。“拜托，如果我要死了，我也应该死在这个国家，这样我的孩子们才能把我安葬。”
联邦调查局文件显示，斯科罗与美国情报官员的交集始于2000年，当时他因贩毒入狱。
他表示，1990年代科索沃冲突后，全家逃离科索沃，他努力赚钱抚养孩子和作为难民的父母，之后因帮阿尔巴尼亚犯罪团伙运输海洛因而被捕。
他从小信奉伊斯兰教，在曼哈顿一所监狱服刑期间，一群伊斯兰激进分子接纳了他，而联邦调查局档案中将他列为线人。9/11事件后，他称中情局找到他，利用他与激进分子的联系开展工作。
2002年至2006年期间，他在宾夕法尼亚州的艾伦伍德联邦惩教所服刑，斯科罗称他为联邦调查局收集了多名恐怖分子的情报，其中包括“拉科万纳六人组”的费萨尔·加拉布——联邦探员称该组织是美国首个本土恐怖主义休眠细胞；弗吉尼亚圣战网络成员兰德尔·“伊斯梅尔”·罗耶，该人因策划针对海外美军的暴力活动被判有罪；以及真主党成员朱努兹·富阿兹。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻获得的2004年联邦调查局记录经过大量删减，将斯科罗列为针对奥萨马·本·拉登的调查中的线人，他有时能提供“可付诸行动”且“可靠”的情报，包括一个“叙利亚训练营地”的细节。
斯科罗原本以为自己的工作能换取减刑，但却在2007年被遣返回科索沃，他称中情局曾指示他从巴尔干地区渗透进基地组织，他直到2014年才回到美国，他在之前为移民案件提交的法律声明中如此表示。
斯科罗称，2007年至2009年间，他为中情局在恐怖组织中卧底，前往叙利亚的一个伊斯兰国营地，并在黎巴嫩、约旦、巴基斯坦、埃及以及祖国开展工作。
他在那段时间拍摄的照片和视频显示他身处明显是中东的环境中，与已知的恐怖分子共处。这些影像被用于2024年纪录片《意外间谍》以及去年在YouTube上播出的《肖恩·瑞安秀》某一期节目中。
他似乎直接参与了布鲁克林恐怖分子贝蒂姆·卡齐乌的逮捕行动，后者因试图购买武器交给索马里恐怖组织青年党以袭击海外美军，被判处27年监禁。
斯科罗在2020年12月的声明中写道，他在科索沃的公寓招待卡齐乌时，秘密致电中情局联络员告知了对方的位置，最终导致这名恐怖分子在2009年7月被捕，当时警方在其住处查获了步枪、弹药和手榴弹。
斯科罗向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻提供了他与自称中情局联络员“克里斯”在2009年9月24日的往来邮件，邮件中写道：“看到我们的朋友卡齐乌如今回到了美国，我非常高兴。”中情局未回应置评请求。
斯科罗称，他协助截获了运往科索沃的铀 shipments，阻止了可能的“脏弹”阴谋，并且2015年4月回到美国后，当接到一名伊斯兰国招募者的联系时，他向联邦调查局和纽约警察局提供了更多情报。
斯科罗的律师约书亚·德拉特尔对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，过去十年里，他的当事人在经历了为美国出生入死的惊险经历后，过着“完全遵纪守法、对家庭有贡献的生活”。
他本月早些时候被捕后向联邦法院提交的人身保护令请愿书称，斯科罗“近十年来一直在为中情局、联邦调查局和美国缉毒局工作”，并声称他“作为美国执法特工做出了忠诚且英勇的工作”。
8月3日他被捕时，他的妻子苏珊·斯科罗就在新泽西州伊丽莎白市的移民办公室现场。
她表示，当他在前台办理登记时，移民海关总署的特工一拥而上，将他带进一个房间，随后用车将他带走。
“他们背叛了他。他已经服过刑了。他差点丢了命，却没人在乎。他应该得到赦免，”她说。
“他被遣返回任何地方都不安全。我们时刻都在提防着。”
这位科索沃裔男子1994年首次来到美国，当时他以逃离当时的南斯拉夫军队为由申请庇护，他称自己目睹了士兵的强奸和杀害儿童行为。
斯科罗称，在为美国从事多年自称为间谍的工作后，他的身份最终败露，在科索沃的一次暗杀企图中腿部中弹，促使他逃离并于2014年通过加拿大非法再次进入美国。
2016年，纽约警察局以他使用女儿的学生折扣公共交通卡为由将其逮捕，此后他落入移民海关总署手中，引发了漫长的移民诉讼。
2022年11月，一名联邦法官禁止政府将斯科罗遣返回科索沃，理由是根据《禁止酷刑公约》这项国际条约，他在当地面临遭受酷刑和谋杀的风险，但并未批准他获得合法居留权。
斯科罗所在出租车工会的执行主任巴哈拉维·德赛表示，她对这位“令人印象深刻、风趣又善良”的司机的居留权岌岌可危感到“震惊”。
“我以为鉴于他为中情局在反恐战争中所做的工作，他早就应该获得永久居留身份了，”德赛对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻说道。
“以这种方式利用他，现在又将他弃之不顾，这实在太残忍了。”
斯科罗的律师于8月4日提交了人身保护令请愿书，辩称根据2022年法院授予的保护令，移民海关总署在驱逐他之前必须获得法官许可——而该机构并未做到这一点。
本月，移民海关总署驱逐了一批与斯科罗享有同等保护的墨西哥国民——即根据《禁止酷刑公约》获得的暂缓驱逐资格——此前美国国务院从墨西哥政府获得保证，称被驱逐者不会受到伤害。
据《纽约时报》上周报道，这些人的驱逐程序同样未提交联邦法院备案。
“这又是一起关乎移民和海关执法局（‘ICE’）能否——在未发出通知、毫无理由或未经法定程序的情况下——任意逮捕并无限期拘留一名已根据《禁止酷刑公约》获得驱逐暂缓令的非公民的案件，”斯科罗8月17日提交的修订后的人身保护令请愿书称。
“答案显然是否定的。这一裁定已得到全美各地法院判决的证实。”
美国地区法院法官罗伯特·基尔希责令政府在周四之前作出回应。
移民海关总署确认收到了哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的置评请求，但未提供回复。中情局和联邦调查局均未回应。
He spied for the U.S. in the war on terror. Now ICE wants to deport him.
August 19, 2026 / 7:05 PM EDT / CBS News
The Trump administration is trying to deport a self-described CIA spy who infiltrated al Qaeda after 9/11 and won his permission to live in the U.S. by helping convict terrorists.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Blerim Skoro, a Kosovo-born father of three, outside an immigration office in New Jersey where he was renewing his paperwork earlier this month.
His lawyers have filed in federal court to halt his deportation, saying Skoro, 55, was promised residency after years of significant work as a “CIA agent.”
Skoro, a Staten Island, New York, cab driver who has an American wife and children, was granted a deferral of removal in 2022 due to the risk of his capture and torture by terrorists if he were deported.
The ruling was due in part to Skoro’s help securing the arrests of al Qaeda, al Shabaab and Hezbollah members, his lawyers claim.
Blerim Skoro, in a recent video call from ICE detention. Susan Skoro
Now he fears that the government, for which he claims to have put his life on the line, is going to send him back to Kosovo — he says into the hands of those who want him dead.
“I never thought they were going to betray me like this,” he told CBS News in a phone interview from Elizabeth Detention Center, in New Jersey. “Please, if I die, I should die in this country so my kids can bury me.”
Skoro’s relationship with U.S. intelligence officials began when he was jailed for trafficking drugs in 2000, FBI documents show.
He says he was struggling to make ends meet supporting his children and refugee parents after the family fled the Kosovo conflict in the 1990s. He got caught transporting heroin overseas for an Albanian criminal gang.
Raised a Muslim, he was welcomed by a group of Islamic radicals in a Manhattan prison where he began serving his drug trafficking sentence, FBI files that list him as a confidential informant show. After 9/11, he says the CIA approached him to exploit the connection.
While incarcerated at FCI Allenwood, a federal prison in Pennsylvania, between 2002 and 2006, Skoro says he gleaned intelligence for the FBI on terrorists including Faysal Galab of the Lackawanna Six, which federal agents described as America’s first homegrown terrorist sleeper cell; Randall “Ismail” Royer of the Virginia jihad network, convicted of organizing violence against U.S. troops overseas; and Hezbollah member Junuz Fuaz.
Blerim Skoro, center, with fellow inmates in prison in the early 2000s. He says he gleaned intelligence for the FBI on several who were later convicted in terrorism-related cases. “The Accidental Spy,” Cambridge Picture Company
Heavily redacted FBI records from 2004 obtained by CBS News list Skoro as an informant in an investigation targeting Osama bin Laden, at times providing “actionable” and “reliable” information including details of a “Syrian training camp.”
Skoro believed he would receive a reduced sentence for his work, but was instead deported to Kosovo in 2007 and claims he was told by the CIA to infiltrate al Qaeda from the Balkans — only returning to the U.S. in 2014, he said in a previous legal declaration for his immigration case.
Blerim Skoro, at right, during the period when he says he was working undercover between 2007 and 2009. “The Accidental Spy,” Cambridge Picture Company
Skoro claims he was undercover in the terrorist group from 2007 to 2009 for the CIA, traveling to an ISIS camp in Syria and working in Lebanon, Jordan, Pakistan and Egypt as well as his home country.
Photos and videos he took during that time show him in apparent Middle Eastern settings with known terrorists. The footage was used in a 2024 documentary, “The Accidental Spy,” and in an episode of The Shawn Ryan Show on YouTube last year.
Blerim Skoro is seen in a photo he says was taken while he was working undercover between 2007 and 2009. “The Accidental Spy,” Cambridge Picture Company
He appears to have been directly involved in the arrest of Brooklyn terrorist Betim Kaziu, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison after attempting to buy weapons for the Somali terrorist group al Shabaab to target U.S. troops stationed abroad.
In his December 2020 declaration, Skoro wrote that he secretly called his CIA handler to give his location while hosting Kaziu at his Kosovo apartment, leading to the terrorist’s arrest with a rifle, ammunition and grenades in July 2009.
Skoro shared emails with CBS News between him and a man he claims was his CIA handler, “Chris,” dated Sept. 24, 2009, which say: “I was very glad to see our friend Kaziu is now back in the States.” The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.
Skoro claims he helped intercept shipments of uranium to Kosovo, preventing a possible “dirty bomb” plot, and that starting in April 2015, after he was back in the U.S., he offered more intelligence to the FBI and New York Police Department when he says he was contacted by an ISIS recruiter.
Skoro’s attorney, Joshua Dratel, told CBS News that for the past decade his client has led a “completely law-abiding, productive life with his family after a harrowing experience that he performed for the United States with great courage and skill.”
His habeas corpus petition filed in federal court after his arrest earlier this month says he “worked for the CIA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Drug Enforcement Agency over the course of nearly a decade,” and claims he performed “devoted and heroic work as a United States law enforcement agent.”
His wife, Susan Skoro, was with him at the Elizabeth, New Jersey, immigration office when he was arrested on Aug. 3.
She said when he checked in at the front desk, ICE officers descended on him, bundled him into a room, then took him away in a car.
“They betrayed him. He’s done his time. He almost lost his life, and nobody gives a s**t. He deserves a pardon,” she said.
“He can’t get deported anywhere safely. We’re always looking over our shoulders.”
The Kosovar first came to America in 1994 claiming asylum after deserting the then-Yugoslav Army, having witnessed rape and child murder by soldiers, he said.
After years of self-described espionage on behalf of the U.S., Skoro says his cover was eventually blown and he was shot in the leg during an assassination attempt in Kosovo, prompting him to flee and reenter the U.S. illegally via Canada in 2014.
He fell into ICE’s hands in 2016 after the NYPD arrested him for using his daughter’s student discount public transit card, sparking a lengthy immigration battle.
In November 2022, a federal judge barred the government from deporting Skoro back to Kosovo due to the risk of his torture and murder there, under the international treaty known as the Convention Against Torture, but stopped short of granting him legal residency.
Bhairavi Desai, executive director of Skoro’s taxi union, said she was “shocked” to discover the legal residency of the “impressive, funny and kind” driver was on shaky ground.
“I thought that given the work that he did on the war on terror on behalf of the CIA, he would have already had permanent status here,” Desai told CBS News.
“It just seems really brutal to have used him in this way and now to discard him.”
Skoro’s lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition on Aug. 4, arguing that thanks to his 2022 court-awarded protection, ICE must get permission from a judge before deporting him — something the agency failed to do.
This month ICE deported a group of Mexican nationals who had been under the same protection as Skoro — a deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture — after the State Department received assurances from the Mexican government that the deportees would not be harmed.
Their deportation proceedings also began without a federal court filing, The New York Times reported last week.
“This is yet another case that concerns whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement (‘ICE’) can — without notice, reason, or process — arbitrarily arrest and indefinitely detain a noncitizen who has been granted Withholding of Removal under the Convention Against Torture,” Skoro’s amended habeas corpus petition, filed on Aug. 17, said.
“The answer to this question is resoundingly no. This holding has been confirmed by opinions across the country.”
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Kirsch ordered the government to respond by Thursday.
ICE acknowledged CBS News’ request for comment but did not provide a response. The CIA and FBI did not respond.