2026年2月13日 / 路透社
2月12日（路透社）- 一名联邦法官周四裁定，美国移民与海关执法局(ICE)必须确保明尼苏达州被拘留者能接触其律师。此前法官发现，在最近的一次执法行动激增期间，该机构阻止了数千人会见律师。
由唐纳德·特朗普总统第一任期内任命的美国地区法官南希·布拉塞尔(Nancy Brasel)表示，ICE在最近的”地铁行动激增”（Operation Metro Surge）期间的做法，包括一项将被拘留者迅速转移出明尼苏达州并剥夺其电话通讯的政策，”几乎完全剥夺了被拘留者获得律师帮助的途径”。
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布拉塞尔在1月27日代表被拘留者提起的集体诉讼中做出了初步裁决，她的命令将在诉讼程序进行期间保持14天有效。
法院命令要求政府停止迅速将被拘留者转移出该州，并允许被拘留者与律师进行会面访问和私人电话通讯。
美国国土安全部(DHS)发言人表示，被拘留者可以使用电话联系家人和律师，并否认明尼阿波利斯联邦大楼（被拘留者在此接受处理）存在”过度拥挤”情况。
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代表被拘留者提起诉讼的非营利组织”民主前进”(Democracy Forward)表示，在美国，获得律师帮助的权利并非”可选择的”。
“国土安全部一直将人们拘留在美国从未打算长期关押的大楼中，给他们戴上手铐，秘密转移出州，并阻挠其获得律师帮助和监督，这是蓄意逃避问责，”民主前进主席斯凯·佩里曼(Skye Perryman)在一份声明中说。
根据判决书，ICE并未否认被拘留者拥有获得律师帮助的宪法权利，也表示其没有阻止被拘留者会见律师的政策。但布拉塞尔指出，实际上，ICE创造的条件导致数千人与律师隔绝。
法官发现，作为原告的非公民被拘留者提供了关于其拘留条件的大量具体证据，这些证据与ICE对其政策的”薄弱解释”相矛盾——ICE声称没有足够资源为被拘留者提供律师会见服务。
“被告分配了大量资源向明尼苏达州派遣数千名特工，拘留数千人并将其安置在自己的设施中，”布拉塞尔在裁决中表示，”当涉及保护被拘留者的宪法权利时，被告不能突然声称资源不足。”
大多数被拘留者最初被关押在明尼阿波利斯的亨利·惠普尔主教联邦大楼，但许多人未获通知即被立即转移出州，律师无法与其取得联系，判决书称。
法官发现，被拘留者有时被转移得如此迅速频繁，以至于ICE失去了对其位置的跟踪。
判决书称，虽然大多数被拘留者能使用电话，但这不足以保障充分的法律代理。
根据判决书，当被拘留者询问时，ICE并不总是提供律师的姓名或电话号码，且电话通讯通常在公共区域进行，ICE人员和其他被拘留者可以旁听。
诉讼中的一名被拘留者——一名拥有政府签发工作许可的20岁寻求庇护者——被送往拘留中心，ICE在此提供了两部翻盖手机供72名被拘留者在一个单独拘留室中共用，每人通话时间不超过两分钟。
尽管法院命令要求该20岁被拘留者在5天后获释，但他在被拘留18天后才被释放。在此期间，他先被转移到得克萨斯州，然后到新墨西哥州，最后返回明尼苏达州；ICE官员从未告知他被拘留或获释的原因，判决书称。
报道：迪特里希·克诺特(Dietrich Knauth)；编辑：托马斯·德平豪斯(Thomas Derpinghaus)
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ICE blocked detainees’ access to lawyers in Minnesota, judge finds
February 13, 2026 / Reuters
Feb 12 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure that detainees have access to their attorneys in Minnesota, after finding that the agency had blocked thousands of people from seeing their lawyers during a recent enforcement surge.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in his first term, said ICE’s practices during the recent Operation Metro Surge, including a policy of quickly moving detainees out of Minnesota and depriving them of phone calls, “all but extinguish a detainee’s access to counsel.”
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Brasel made the initial ruling in a class action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of detainees on January 27 and her order will remain in place for 14 days while the proceedings play out.
The court order requires the government to stop rapidly transferring detainees out of the state and to allow attorney-client visits and private phone calls between detainees and their lawyers.
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said detainees have access to phones that they can use to contact their families and lawyers and denied that there was any “overcrowding” at the Minneapolis federal building where detainees are processed.
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Democracy Forward, a nonprofit that filed the lawsuit on behalf of detainees, said that the right to a lawyer is not “optional” in the U.S.
“DHS has been detaining people in a building never meant for long-term custody, shackling them, secretly transferring them out of state and blocking access to counsel and oversight in a deliberate effort to evade accountability,” Democracy Forward President Skye Perryman said in a statement.
ICE did not dispute that detainees had a constitutional right to counsel and it said it does not have a policy of preventing detainees from seeing their lawyers, according to the ruling. But in practice, it provided conditions that isolated thousands of people from their attorneys, Brasel said.
The plaintiffs, who are noncitizen detainees, had provided substantial and specific evidence about their detention conditions, which contradicted ICE’s “threadbare” explanations of its policies and its protestations that it did not have enough resources to provide detainees with access to their lawyers, the judge found.
“Defendants allocated substantial resources to sending thousands of agents to Minnesota, detaining thousands of people and housing them in their facilities,” Brasel said in her ruling. “Defendants cannot suddenly lack resources when it comes to protecting detainees’ constitutional rights.”
Most detainees are initially held at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, but many are immediately transferred out of state, without notice, with no way for attorneys to contact them, according to the ruling.
Detainees are sometimes moved so quickly and frequently that ICE loses track of where they are, the judge found.
Most detainees are provided some phone access, but that falls short of providing adequate legal representation, Brasel’s ruling said.
ICE does not always provide the name or phone number of a lawyer when detainees ask and phone calls often take place in a public area where ICE personnel and other detainees can listen in, according to the ruling.
One detainee in the lawsuit, a 20-year-old asylum seeker with a government-issued work permit, was sent to a detention center where ICE provided two flip phones to be shared among 72 detainees in a single holding cell, according to the court ruling. The detainees each had no more than two minutes for a call, it said.
The 20-year-old detainee was released after 18 days in detention, despite a court order requiring his release after five days. In the meantime, he was transferred first to Texas and then to New Mexico before being returned to Minnesota; ICE officers never told him why he was detained or why he was released, according to the ruling.
Reporting by Dietrich Knauth; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus
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