纽约，2月3日（路透社）- 纽约州总检察长周二表示，纽约正在组建一支身穿紫色背心的法律观察员队伍，以监督和记录特朗普政府移民执法人员拘留和驱逐移民的行动。
这一宣布之前，明尼阿波利斯经历了数周有时带有暴力的动荡。在那里，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已部署数千名武装、蒙面特工，试图比其任何前任驱逐更多的移民。
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纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯（Letitia James）表示，该州新的法律观察员将是其办公室的志愿工作人员，他们接受过培训，将在不干涉的情况下观察特朗普政府的移民执法行动是否”仍在法律范围内”。
“我很自豪能保护纽约人的宪法权利，使他们能够自由言论、和平抗议，并在不惧怕非法联邦行动的情况下正常生活，”民主党人詹姆斯在一份声明中表示。”我们在明尼苏达州看到，在缺乏透明度和问责制的情况下，联邦行动会多么迅速且悲惨地升级。”
监督移民和海关执法局（ICE）的美国国土安全部（DHS）表示，詹姆斯不与ICE合作，这是在将纽约人置于危险之中。
“如果我们有州和地方的合作，ICE执法人员就不必在纽约实地开展工作，”国土安全部发言人特里西娅·麦克劳克林（Tricia McLaughlin）在一份声明中说。
特朗普将驱逐行动与减少犯罪挂钩
共和党人特朗普将其最激进的移民执法行动针对了由其政治对手治理的州，特别是加利福尼亚州、伊利诺伊州和明尼苏达州。纽约是国土安全部最大、最繁忙的外地办事处所在地之一，但特朗普尚未宣布在该州有任何重大执法行动升级。
他表示，驱逐包括一些合法进入美国的移民在内的许多移民，对于减少犯罪是必要的，尽管他的论点经常被犯罪数据所驳斥。
在明尼阿波利斯，居民们举行抗议活动，许多人吹着哨子并录制视频，因为穿着军事风格装备的移民特工在街头巡逻。1月份，移民特工两次向前来抗议或观察的美国公民开枪致死：Renee Good和Alex Pretti。
明尼苏达州的领导人指责特朗普政府做得太过火，侵犯了移民和美国公民的宪法权利，包括他们观察和抗议政府行动的权利。
在纽约，小型法律观察员团体在街头抗议活动中很常见，有时戴着全国律师协会（National Lawyers Guild）的亮绿色帽子，重点关注当地警察是否侵犯了保护言论自由的权利或法律。
但由州政府正式组织部署法律观察员以监督联邦执法行动的努力似乎是新的举措。詹姆斯是特朗普的直言不讳的反对者，她曾成功起诉特朗普及其房地产公司涉嫌金融欺诈，她说她将利用观察员收集的信息来决定是否提起法律诉讼。
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New York to monitor Trump’s deportation efforts with new legal observers | Reuters
NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) – New York is creating a team of legal observers that will don purple vests to monitor and record the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement officers as they seek to detain and deport migrants, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesday.
The announcement follows weeks of sometimes violent tumult in Minneapolis, where U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of armed, masked agents as he tries to deport more migrants than any of his predecessors.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James said the state’s new legal observers would be volunteer employees from her office, trained to observe, without interfering, whether Trump’s immigration enforcement “remains within the bounds of the law.”
“I am proud to protect New Yorkers’ constitutional rights to speak freely, protest peacefully, and go about their lives without fear of unlawful federal action,” James, a Democrat, said in a statement. “We have seen in Minnesota how quickly and tragically federal operations can escalate in the absence of transparency and accountability.”
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, said James was putting New Yorkers in danger by not working with ICE.
“ICE law enforcement wouldn’t have to be in the field in New York if we had state and local cooperation,” Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS spokesperson, said in a statement.
TRUMP LINKS DEPORTATIONS WITH CRIME REDUCTION
Trump, a Republican, has reserved his most aggressive surges in immigration enforcement for states governed by his political opponents, particularly California, Illinois and Minnesota. New York is home to one of the biggest and busiest DHS field offices, but Trump has not announced any major enforcement surge in the state.
He says the deportations of many migrants, including some who were legally admitted into the U.S., are necessary to reduce crime, although his argument is often contradicted by crime data.
In Minneapolis, residents have come out in protest, many blowing whistles and recording video as immigration agents in military-style gear roam the streets. Twice in January, immigration agents fatally shot U.S. citizens who had come out to protest or observe: Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Minnesota’s leaders have accused the Trump administration of going too far and violating the constitutional rights of both migrants and U.S. citizens, including their rights to observe and protest government actions.
In New York, small groups of legal observers are common at street protests, sometimes wearing the bright green hats of the National Lawyers Guild, focused on whether local police are violating rights or laws that protect freedom of speech.
But a formal state-organized effort to deploy legal observers to monitor federal law enforcement appears to be new. James, an outspoken foe of Trump who successfully sued him and his real estate firm for financial fraud, says she will use information gathered by the observers to decide whether to bring legal challenges.
Reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York; Additional reporting by Ted Hesson Editing by Rod Nickel and Nia Williams
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