2026年7月14日 美国东部时间下午2:17 / 福克斯新闻频道
国土安全部谴责基韦斯特飞机劫机案，激进法官公然违抗特朗普的驱逐令
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一名在911事件后因劫持飞机被定罪的古巴国民，尽管美国已下达将其驱逐出境的长期命令，仍被佛罗里达州的法院下令释放。
2003年，迈克尔·格拉·莫拉莱斯与其他数人袭击机组人员，劫持了一架古巴通勤飞机，强行向北飞行100多英里，最终降落在佛罗里达州门罗县的基韦斯特国际机场。
当时，美国空军从霍姆斯特德紧急起飞战机拦截该架从古巴青年岛新赫罗纳起飞的飞机，莫拉莱斯于当晚被捕。
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法庭法槌（左图）与迈克尔·格拉·莫拉莱斯的拼贴照片（右图）。(iStock；国土安全部)
自那以后，他一直被美国羁押，并因“飞机海盗行为”被判处22年监禁。
2023年，一名联邦移民法官下达了针对莫拉莱斯的驱逐令，他于2025年服完刑期后被移交至移民与海关执法局羁押。
但上周，由克林顿任命的约翰·斯蒂尔法官在迈尔斯堡作出裁决，下令释放莫拉莱斯，其依据是最高法院关于外国国民因无国家可遣返而长期被羁押的相关判例。
国土安全部助理部长劳伦·比斯称，莫拉莱斯案“是又一例激进法官试图违背特朗普总统代表美国民众提出的、将犯罪非法外籍人士驱逐出我国的指令”。
“在特朗普总统和马伦部长的领导下，国土安全部将继续为羁押并驱逐那些无权留在我国的犯罪非法外籍人士而斗争，”比斯在一份声明中说道。
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古巴总统菲德尔·卡斯特罗（中）迎接被劫持飞往佛罗里达州的古巴飞机上的乘客与机组人员。(巴勃罗·皮尔丹/盖蒂图片社)
斯蒂尔写道，联邦官员曾表示打算将莫拉莱斯驱逐至墨西哥，但调查发现并无证据表明“在可预见的未来，格拉·莫拉莱斯有很大可能被驱逐出境”。
“因此，根据‘扎夫伊达斯案’的判例，他有权被释放出羁押，但仍需遵守监督令的相关条款，”斯蒂尔写道——他援引了凯斯图蒂斯·扎夫伊达斯案的判例，该案当事人是立陶宛裔合法永久美国居民，出生于德国难民营地，1994年因犯罪记录被下令驱逐，但无任何国家愿意接收。
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古巴距离美国大陆最南端的地标——佛罗里达州基韦斯特市怀特黑德街尽头的浮标——仅90英里。(compassandcamera/iStock)
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2003年劫机者在基韦斯特被捕后，美联社的报道称，古巴官员曾要求美国归还飞机及所有机上人员，包括被控海盗罪的嫌疑人。莫拉莱斯等人当时称，他们劫持飞机是“为了自由”。
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Illegal alien ‘pirate’ who hijacked plane to US freed by Clinton-appointed judge
July 14, 2026 2:17pm EDT / Fox News
DHS blasts the Key West aircraft piracy case as an activist judge defying Trump’s deportation mandate
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
A Cuban national convicted of hijacking an airplane in the wake of 9/11 has been ordered released in Florida despite a standing order for his removal from the U.S.
Maikel Guerra Morales and several others assaulted a flight crew and hijacked a Cuban commuter airplane in 2003 and forced it to fly more than 100 miles north to Monroe County, Florida, where it eventually landed at Key West International Airport.
Morales was arrested that evening after U.S. Air Force jets scrambled from Homestead to intercept the plane, which originally took off from Nuevo Gerona on Cuba’s Isle of Youth.
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A courtroom gavel, left, is seen with an inset of Maikel Guerra Morales, right.(iStock; DHS)
Since then, he has been in U.S. custody, including for a 22-year sentence for “aircraft piracy.”
A federal immigration judge issued an order of removal against Morales in 2023, and he ultimately was transferred to ICE custody after completing his prison sentence in 2025.
But, Clinton-appointed Judge John Steele in Fort Myers ruled last week that Morales must be released, citing a Supreme Court ruling involving foreign nationals languishing in custody with no country to take them back.
DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis called Morales’ case “yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump’s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country.”
“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS will continue to fight for the detention and removal of criminal illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country,” Bis said in a statement.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro, center, greets passengers and crew who were aboard a Cuban plane hijacked and flown to Florida.(Pablo Pildain/Getty Images)
Steele wrote that federal officials indicated their intention to deport him to Mexico, but instead found that there is no evidence of a “a significant likelihood that Guerra Morales will be removed in the reasonably foreseeable future.”
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“Therefore, he is entitled to release from detention under ‘Zadvydas’, but he remains subject to the terms of an order of supervision,” Steele wrote – relying on the case of Kestutis Zadvydas, an ethnic Lithuanian lawful permanent U.S. resident born in a German displaced-persons camp who had been ordered deported in 1994 due to a criminal record but had no receptive country to return to.
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Cuba lies 90 miles south of the Southernmost Point in the Continental United States, as marked by this buoy at the foot of Whitehead Street in Key West, Florida.(compassandcamera/iStock)
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An Associated Press report following the hijackers’ 2003 arrests in Key West said Cuban officials demanded the U.S. return the plane and all occupants, including those charged with piracy. Morales and the other suspects claimed at the time they hijacked the plane “for freedom.”
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