2026-05-29 17:13 美国东部时间 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
其律师周五表示，美国移民和海关执法局已临时释放何塞·尤加尔-克鲁斯——一名原本等待被驱逐至刚果民主共和国的南美男子。
尤加尔-克鲁斯于2024年7月越境后首次被拘留。六个月后，一名移民法官裁定，他很可能会在本国面临酷刑，因此不能被遣返。美国移民海关总署继续将他关押至2025年12月底，当时一名联邦法官裁定对他的拘留非法，但今年4月刚果同意接收他后，他再次被捕。
5月17日，世界卫生组织宣布刚果和乌干达的埃博拉疫情为国际关注的突发公共卫生事件时，尤加尔-克鲁斯仍被关押在爱荷华州的一所监狱中。据世卫组织数据，截至周三，已有超过1000例疑似或确诊病例，以及超过240例疑似或确诊死亡病例。
“在疫情爆发前，尽管明尼苏达州和爱荷华州爆发抗议活动，国土安全部仍拒绝停止将尤加尔-克鲁斯驱逐至刚果民主共和国，也拒绝考虑将其转移到其他能为这名酷刑受害者提供更高安全保障的国家和大洲，”他的律师在一份新闻稿中写道。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻就尤加尔-克鲁斯的释放情况，以及美国移民海关总署是否在埃博拉疫情期间开展了针对刚果民主共和国的驱逐行动，向该局进行了求证。
今年4月中旬，共有15名南美人士被驱逐至刚果民主共和国，他们被送往首都金沙萨郊外的一家酒店。据《纽约时报》报道，联合国移民机构的官员告知他们，可以选择要么返回本国，在安排返程期间“视需要长期”留在酒店；要么留在刚果，自行承担生活费用。一名来自哥伦比亚的女性因刚果当局称因其健康状况无法接收她，一名美国联邦法官裁定其被非法遣送至刚果，应被送回美国。
刚果的埃博拉疫情主要集中在东北部的伊图里省，距离金沙萨约1000英里。
尤加尔-克鲁斯原本计划被驱逐至刚果，这是特朗普政府推动将移民遣送至非原籍国举措的一部分。据监测机构“第三国驱逐观察”的数据，美国政府已与至少33个国家签署协议，接收特定的美国被驱逐者，但绝大多数第三国驱逐行动都是针对墨西哥的。
移民政策专家表示，这些外交努力更多是为了制造威慑效果，而非扩大驱逐规模。
“这是一项移民执法工具，旨在通过胁迫和威胁，加上恶劣的拘留条件，迫使人们主动放弃（庇护申请），”难民国际组织负责美洲和欧洲事务的主管耶尔·沙赫尔说道，该组织也是“第三国驱逐观察”的发起方之一，该机构负责监测第三国驱逐行动。
从去年秋天开始，美国移民海关总署的律师加大了加快处理数万起庇护案件的力度，试图将移民驱逐至同意在当地审理其庇护申请的第三国，但“第三国驱逐观察”估计，实际被驱逐的人数极少。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前的一项分析发现，在收到“终止程序”的动议——即未经听证终结案件——后，约16%的申请人撤回了庇护申请或同意自愿离境，而许多其他案件则在上诉阶段陷入停滞。
根据法庭记录，在试图将尤加尔-克鲁斯驱逐至刚果之前，美国移民海关总署此前曾多次尝试将其遣返阿根廷、智利、巴拉圭、墨西哥和加拿大，但均未成功。
尤加尔-克鲁斯的拘留和拟被驱逐行动引发了爱荷华州当地维权人士和社区居民的广泛声援，许多人写了支持信、陪同他前往美国移民海关总署的报到点，并在他被关押的林恩县法院前抗议其被驱逐。
“感谢所有为我发声、反对这些第三国驱逐行动的人。这场斗争仍将继续，”尤加尔-克鲁斯在新闻稿中说道。
他的律师拒绝提供更多评论，也拒绝让尤加尔-克鲁斯在获释后接受采访。上个月仍被关押期间，尤加尔-克鲁斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他感觉自己被当作“一个毫无价值的人”对待，仿佛自己犯下了重罪。
ICE temporarily releases South American man it had planned to deport to Congo amid Ebola outbreak
2026-05-29 17:13 EDT / CBS News
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has temporarily released Jose Yugar-Cruz, a South American man who had been awaiting deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo, his attorneys said Friday.
Yugar-Cruz was first detained after crossing the border in July 2024. Six months later, an immigration judge ruled he was more likely than not to face torture in his home country and could not be sent back there. ICE continued to detain him until late December 2025, when a federal judge ruled his detention was unlawful, but he was arrested again in April after Congo agreed to accept him.
On May 17, Yugar-Cruz was still detained in an Iowa jail when the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a health emergency. As of Wednesday, there were more than 1,000 suspected or confirmed cases and over 240 suspected or confirmed deaths, according to the WHO.
“Prior to the outbreak and despite protests in Minnesota and in Iowa, the Department of Homeland Security had refused to stop Yugar Cruz’ deportation to the DRC or to consider relocation to another country and continent that would assure him a greater degree of safety as a victim of torture,” his attorneys wrote in a news release.
CBS News reached out to ICE about Yugar-Cruz’s release and whether it is conducting any deportations to the DRC during the Ebola outbreak.
Fifteen South Americans were deported to the DRC in mid-April, where they were sent to a hotel outside of Kinshasa, the capital city. Officials from the United Nations’ migration agency told them they could either agree to go back to their home countries and stay in the hotel “as long as necessary” while they arranged their return, or remain in Congo and pay for their own living expenses, The New York Times reported. A U.S. federal judge ruled one woman, from Colombia, had been sent to Congo illegally and should be returned to the U.S., since authorities in Congo had said they could not accept her due to her medical conditions.
Congo’s Ebola outbreak is largely concentrated in its Ituri Province in the northeast, about 1,000 miles from Kinshasa.
Yugar-Cruz’s previously planned deportation to Congo is part of a broader Trump administration push to send immigrants to countries they aren’t from. The administration has signed agreements with at least 33 countries to accept certain U.S. deportees, according to the monitoring group Third Country Deportation Watch, though the vast majority of third-country removals are to Mexico.
Immigration policy experts say the diplomatic efforts are more about sparking fear than scaling up deportations.
“They are an immigration enforcement tool designed to coerce and threaten people, along with horrible conditions of detention, to basically give up,” said Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International, one of the groups behind Third Country Deportation Watch, which monitors third-country deportations.
Starting last fall, ICE attorneys ramped up efforts to cut tens of thousands of asylum cases short by moving to deport them to third countries that agreed to adjudicate their asylum claims there, but Third Country Deportation Watch estimates few were actually removed. Instead, after receiving the motion to “pretermit,” or end the case without a hearing, about 16% withdrew their asylum claims or agreed to voluntarily depart, a CBS News analysis previously found, and many other cases are stalled on appeal.
Before Congo, ICE previously unsuccessfully tried to remove Yugar-Cruz to Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Mexico and Canada, according to court records.
Yugar-Cruz’s detention and planned deportation had sparked an outpouring of support from advocates and members of the surrounding community in Iowa, with many writing letters of support, accompanying him to ICE check-ins and protesting his removal in front of the Linn County Courthouse, the county he was detained in.
“Thank you to everyone who advocated for me and spoke out against these third-country deportations. The fight continues forward,” Yugar-Cruz said in the news release.
His attorneys declined to provide additional comments or make Yugar-Cruz available for an interview following his release. Speaking from detention last month, Yugar-Cruz told CBS News he felt he had been treated like “a person with no value,” and as if he had committed a serious crime.
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