2026-02-10T11:03:20.37Z / 路透社
- 摘要
- 自ICE加强打击行动以来，联邦攻击和妨碍执法指控数量翻倍
- 视频显示移民官员向抗议者拔枪
- 特朗普政府官员称ICE官员面临袭击和威胁
华盛顿，2月10日（路透社） – 贝基·林斯特伦（Becky Ringstrom）驾驶着她的灰色起亚SUV在明尼阿波利斯郊区跟随联邦移民官员后准备回家时，突然被多辆无标记车辆包围。至少六名蒙面特工跳下车逮捕了她，其中一人用金属物体敲击她的挡风玻璃，仿佛要打破车窗。
经路透社核实，旁观者拍摄的视频记录了这一逮捕过程。这位42岁的七个孩子的母亲随后表示，她被送往明尼阿波利斯市中心的亨利·惠普尔主教联邦大楼，一名官员向她出示了一份传票，指控她违反了一项联邦法律，该法律规定阻碍执法人员执行公务属于犯罪行为。该官员称，她的姓名和照片将被添加到政府数据库中。
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林斯特伦的逮捕成为数千名当地活动人士中最新因违反《美国法典》第18编第111节而被拘留的案例。该条款是一项笼统的指控，适用于任何对“阻碍、抗拒、反对、妨碍、恐吓或干扰”正在执行公务的联邦官员的人。该罪名可被指控为重罪或轻罪，作为重罪，最高可判处20年监禁，但使用“致命或危险武器”或造成伤害的情况，刑罚将超过8年。
路透社对联邦法院记录的审查发现，自去年夏天一系列针对城市的移民打击行动开始以来，特朗普政府已在美国各地以该罪名起诉了至少655人。根据汤姆森路透旗下法律研究数据库Westlaw中公开的刑事 filings，这一数字是2024-2025年同期起诉数量的两倍多。
| 按月份统计的被指控袭击或妨碍联邦特工的违法人数 |
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路透社在某些情况下使用人工智能对指控进行分类，抽查显示准确率为98%。这些数字是全国范围的，路透社无法确定其中有多少与移民执法有关，有多少被指控为重罪，或有多少导致定罪。
这些指控是特朗普政府打击ICE反对者的更广泛努力的一部分，政府将这些反对者描绘成威胁官员并破坏其逮捕有犯罪记录移民的行动的暴徒。
美国国土安全部发言人特里西娅·麦克劳克林（Tricia McLaughlin）表示：“袭击和阻碍执法是重罪。”她还说，联邦移民官员“仅使用了保护自身、公众和联邦财产所必需的最低限度武力。”
两名不愿具名的美国移民和海关执法局官员透露，ICE已在内部数据库中追踪抗议者姓名数月。
这些官员称，政府数据库包含姓名、照片、引发怀疑的行为、地点和车牌信息，其目的是发现可能导致指控的模式。
国土安全部表示，它没有维护美国“国内恐怖分子”数据库，但确实追踪威胁。“我们当然会监控、调查并将所有威胁、袭击和阻碍我们官员的行为移交适当的执法部门，”麦克劳克林说。
其中一名官员表示，仅在明尼苏达州，ICE每天就有几人因干扰警察行动而被移交给联邦检察官，面临同一法律下的指控。
白宫发言人阿比盖尔·杰克逊（Abigail Jackson）表示，特朗普政府致力于保护第一修正案赋予的自由，但阻碍执法的人“将受到法律的全部追究”。
观察ICE行动
林斯特伦称，1月29日周四，她跟踪联邦移民官员长达45分钟，当时他们坐在她家附近的一辆停着的车里。她说，当官员们开始移动时，她决定驾驶SUV跟随，与他们保持多辆车长的距离。
在一个环形交叉路口，一名边境巡逻特工走近她的车说：“这是我最后一次警告你。”林斯特伦在手机上录下的视频显示了这一幕。
她说，官员们在停车标志处右转，而她向左转。几分钟后，当她准备返回家中时，多辆载有联邦官员的车辆停下并逮捕了她。
林斯特伦在接受路透社采访时表示：“我知道我做的事情没有错。”
尽管如此，她还是说，当联邦官员接近她的车时，她感到害怕。“有一瞬间我觉得自己可能会像蕾妮·古德（Renee Good）一样，”她指的是1月份在明尼阿波利斯被联邦移民官员开枪打死的两名美国公民抗议者之一。
逮捕后，她收到了一份传票，路透社查阅后发现法庭日期“待定”（TBD）。
麦克劳克林称林斯特伦“跟踪执法人员并试图阻碍他们履行职责”。
南卡罗来纳大学法学院专注于警务研究的塞思·斯托顿（Seth Stoughton）教授表示，过去这项法律主要用于指控袭击官员的行为，并明确规定所谓的犯罪行为必须是“强行”实施的。
“没有任何身体接触，仅仅是驾车跟随特工，我不清楚这首先是否构成抵抗或妨碍，而且将其认定为强行行为似乎有些牵强，”斯托顿说。
明尼阿波利斯的一名联邦法官在1月中旬的一项命令中指出，以“适当距离”跟随ICE车辆并不构成交通拦截或逮捕理由，但该命令在10天后被上诉法院暂停。
法官现在暂停的命令中没有明确规定什么距离被视为安全距离。
拜登政府时期的ICE高级官员黛博拉·弗莱沙克（Deborah Fleischaker）表示，以和平方式跟随移民官员的车辆并逮捕他们是“不合适且违宪的”。
“观察ICE的行动不是犯罪，不应被视为犯罪，”她说。
麦克劳克林称，现场的美国边境巡逻队特工向林斯特伦发出了“合法命令和警告”，但她继续阻碍行动，导致被捕。
“当煽动者自愿介入并干扰执法行动时，他们不仅面临被捕的风险，还会危及自身和周围人的安全，”麦克劳克林说。
视频显示ICE官员拔枪
虽然路透社在1月底报道称，新的内部ICE指导方针指示官员不要与抗议者接触，但双方的冲突并未停止。
近几周，路透社核实的两段视频显示，ICE官员在接近据称一直跟随他们的车辆时拔枪。
1月29日，在明尼阿波利斯南部，与林斯特伦被捕同一天，联邦移民官员突然转向、停车，并持枪接近一名紧随其后的女性司机。据她的车辆行车记录仪视频（由明尼苏达公共广播电台首次报道并经路透社核实）显示。
麦克劳克林称，ICE官员当时正试图逮捕一名罪犯，而该女性开始“跟踪和阻碍”他们，导致官员试图逮捕她。
“执法人员试图通过开启紧急灯将她拦下以发出警告，”麦克劳克林说。“煽动者无视执法命令，拒绝停车，开始鲁莽驾驶，包括闯红灯，险些与多辆车相撞，并直接冲向执法人员试图撞毁他们的车辆。”
路透社无法独立核实该女性是否无视命令或鲁莽驾驶。
另一起事件中，2月3日，两名ICE官员再次持枪接近一辆一直跟随他们的汽车，据路透社核实的视频和国土安全部声明显示。
美国国土安全部称，该车一直“跟踪”并“阻碍”ICE官员。
“煽动者随后跟随官员离开，并做出暗示拥有枪支的手势，”国土安全部说。
路透社无法独立核实该机构的说法。路透社审查的视频仅显示车辆停下后的情况。
在特朗普执政期间，移民执法人员与移民发生暴力冲突后，国土安全部的多份声明被证明不准确或不完整。
ICE在你家门口
一些明尼苏达州居民表示，他们认为自己正成为恐吓运动的目标。
1月22日，在圣保罗北部的一个郊区，一名ICE官员带着一名正在跟随他车辆的女性回到她家，并明确表示他知道她的身份和住址，路透社核实的该女子丈夫拍摄的视频显示。
该女子的丈夫在自家屋外与ICE官员交谈。当丈夫质疑这种策略时，官员称：“你提高声音，我就抹去你的声音。”
一名ICE官员告诉路透社，他们在查询车辆牌照后，将跟随他们的人带回了家，目的是“吓唬他们”。
麦克劳克林说，ICE将审查随身摄像机录像并调查圣保罗的这一事件，但未就ICE使用该策略恐吓反对者一事置评。
1月初，明尼阿波利斯的布兰登·西古恩扎（Brandon Siguenza）和帕蒂·奥基夫（Patty O’Keefe）两名朋友跟随一辆ICE车辆时，官员向他们的车内喷射了催泪瓦斯，砸碎了车窗，并将他们拘留了8小时。
麦克劳克林称，官员多次警告他们“停止阻碍行动”，但他们“选择继续跟踪执法人员并被逮捕”。
“乘客拒绝摇下车窗并下车，”麦克劳克林说。“ICE执法人员遵循了培训，使用了最低限度的必要武力进行逮捕。”
麦克劳克林没有明确确认官员是否打破车窗或使用了催泪瓦斯。
西古恩扎和奥基夫尚未被起诉。
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泰德·赫森是路透社的移民记者，常驻华盛顿特区。他的工作重点是移民、庇护和边境安全的政策与政治。2019年加入路透社之前，他曾在POLITICO工作，同样报道移民问题。他的文章曾发表在《POLITICO Magazine》、《大西洋月刊》和《VICE News》等刊物上。他拥有哥伦比亚大学新闻研究生院硕士学位和波士顿学院学士学位。
克里斯蒂娜·库克是路透社专注于移民问题的调查记者。2025年，她是获得普利策调查报道奖的团队成员之一，该团队因报道芬太尼供应链而获奖。2023年，她和同事因调查美国移民童工问题入围普利策国家报道奖。她最初来自德国，2005年在伦敦加入路透社，现常驻旧金山。
布拉德·希思是华盛顿的一名企业记者。他专注于执法、刑事司法以及利用数据揭示政府行为。他毕业于乔治敦大学法学院，是弗吉尼亚律师协会成员。
[图片1/3] 2026年1月29日，在美国明尼苏达州布莱恩市，Rebecca Ringstrom在观察移民执法行动时被联邦移民官员拘留，这张图片来自视频截图。Collette Adkins/via REUTERS [获取许可，打开新标签页]
Insight: ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars
2026-02-10T11:03:20.37Z / Reuters
- Federal assault and obstruction charges doubled since ICE crackdown began
- Videos show immigration officers drawing weapons on protesters
- Trump officials say ICE officers face assaults, threats
WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles. At least a half-dozen masked agents jumped out to arrest her, one knocking on her windshield with a metal object as if threatening to use it to break her window.
After the arrest, captured on bystander video verified by Reuters, the 42-year-old mother of seven later said she was transported to Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in downtown Minneapolis where an officer gave her a citation charging her under a federal law that criminalizes impeding law enforcement. The official said her name and photo would be added to a government database.
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The arrest of Ringstrom became the latest detention of one of thousands of local activists for violating Title 18, Section 111 of the U.S. Code, a catch-all charge for anyone who “forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes” with a federal officer conducting official duties. The statute can be charged as a felony or misdemeanor. As a felony, it carries up to 20 years in prison, but penalties beyond eight years are reserved for people who use “a deadly or dangerous weapon” or cause an injury.
A Reuters review of federal court records found that the Trump administration has prosecuted at least 655 people under that charge across the U.S. since a series of city-focused immigration crackdowns began last summer. That’s more than double the prosecutions during the same period in 2024-2025, according to a review of publicly available criminal filings in Westlaw, a legal research database owned by Thomson Reuters.
The number of people charged by month with violating the law that makes it a federal crime to assault or impede federal agents
Reuters used artificial intelligence in some instances to classify the charges, with a spot-check showing 98% accuracy. The numbers are nationwide and Reuters was not able to determine how many were connected to immigration enforcement, how many were charged as felonies, or resulted in convictions.
The charges are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to clamp down on ICE opponents, who they portray as rioters who pose threats to officers and undermine their efforts to arrest immigrants with criminal records.
“Assaulting and obstructing law enforcement is a felony,” said U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. She said federal immigration officers “used the minimum amount of force necessary to protect themselves, the public, and federal property.”
ICE has been tracking the names of protesters in an internal database for several months, according to two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations.
The government database contains names, photos, actions that provoked suspicion, locations and license plates, the officials said, adding that the effort was intended to spot patterns that could lead to charges.
DHS said it does not maintain a database of U.S. “domestic terrorists,” but does track threats. “We do of course monitor and investigate and refer all threats, assaults and obstruction of our officers to the appropriate law enforcement,” McLaughlin said.
One of the officials said ICE was referring several people per day in Minnesota alone to federal prosecutors for potential charges under the same law for interfering with police operations.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the Trump administration was committed to protecting First Amendment freedoms, but that people impeding law enforcement “will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
OBSERVING ICE
Ringstrom had watched federal immigration officers for about 45 minutes as they sat in a parked car in her neighborhood on Thursday, January 29. When they started to move, she decided to follow along in her SUV, keeping a distance of multiple car lengths behind, she said.
At a roundabout, a Border Patrol agent approached her car and said, “Last time I’m going to warn you,” according to video Ringstrom recorded on her phone.
The officers went right at a stop sign and she went left, she said. Several minutes later as she started to head back toward her house, multiple vehicles with federal officers stopped and arrested her, she said.
“I know what I’m doing is not wrong,” Ringstrom said later in an interview with Reuters.
Still, she said she was terrified when federal officers approached her car. “There was a moment where I thought I could be Renee Good,” she said, referring to one of the two U.S. citizen protesters fatally shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis in January.
After her arrest, she was issued a citation, reviewed by Reuters, which said the court date was “TBD” – to be determined.
McLaughlin said Ringstrom “stalked law enforcement and attempted to obstruct law enforcement from performing their sworn duties.”
Seth Stoughton, a professor focused on policing at University of South Carolina School of Law, said the law in the past mostly has been used to charge assaults on officers and specifically states that the alleged crime must be committed “forcibly.”
“Without any physical contact, just following an agent in a car, it’s not clear to me that that’s resistance or impeding in the first place, and it certainly seems like a stretch to establish that as forcible,” Stoughton said.
A federal judge in Minneapolis said in a mid-January order that a vehicle following ICE at “an appropriate distance” did not justify a traffic stop or arrest, but that order was paused by an appeals court 10 days later.
The judge’s now-paused order did not say what exact distance would be deemed safe.
Deborah Fleischaker, a top ICE official under former President Joe Biden, said it was “inappropriate and unconstitutional” to intimidate and arrest people peacefully following immigration officers in their cars.
Item 1 of 3 Rebecca Ringstrom is detained by federal immigration agents, as she observed an immigration enforcement operation in her neighborhood, in Blaine, Minnesota, U.S., January 29, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video. Collette Adkins/via REUTERS
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“Observing ICE activities is not a crime and should not be treated as such,” she said.
McLaughlin said U.S. Border Patrol agents at the scene gave Ringstrom “lawful commands and warnings” but that she continued to obstruct operations, leading to her arrest.
“When agitators willingly involve themselves and inject themselves in law enforcement operations, they are risking arrest as well as jeopardizing the safety of themselves and those around them,” McLaughlin said.
VIDEOS SHOW ICE OFFICERS DRAWING WEAPONS
While new internal ICE guidance, reported by Reuters in late January, instructed officers not to engage with protesters, the encounters have not stopped.
Two videos in recent weeks verified by Reuters showed ICE officers drawing their weapons as they approached vehicles that allegedly had been following them.
South of Minneapolis on January 29, the same day Ringstrom was arrested, federal immigration officers abruptly swerved, stopped their vehicle and approached a woman driving behind them with guns drawn, according to dashcam footage from her vehicle
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by Minnesota Public Radio and verified by Reuters.
McLaughlin said ICE officers were attempting to arrest a criminal offender when the woman began “stalking and obstructing” them, leading the officers to try to arrest her.
“Law enforcement officers attempted to pull her over using their emergency lights to issue her a warning,” McLaughlin said. “Ignoring law enforcement commands, the agitator refused to pull over and began driving recklessly including running stop signs, nearly colliding with multiple vehicles, and driving directly at law enforcement in an attempt to ram their vehicle.”
Reuters was not able to independently verify whether the woman ignored commands or drove recklessly.
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on February 3, two ICE officers approached a car that had been following them, again, with guns drawn, according to video verified by Reuters and a DHS statement.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the vehicle had been “stalking” and “obstructing” ICE officers.
“The agitators then followed the officers as they departed and made hand motions suggestive of possessing a firearm,” DHS said.
Reuters could not independently verify the agency’s account. The video reviewed by Reuters showed the vehicles once they had stopped.
Under Trump, numerous DHS statements after violent encounters with immigration agents have been inaccurate or incomplete.
ICE AT YOUR FRONT DOOR
Some Minnesota residents say they believe they are becoming the subject of an intimidation campaign.
In a suburb north of St. Paul on January 22, an ICE officer led a woman who was following his vehicle back to her house, making it clear that he knew her identity and address, Reuters-verified video filmed by the husband showed.
The woman’s husband spoke to the ICE officer outside of the couple’s house. When the husband questioned the tactic, the officer said, “You raise your voice, I erase your voice,” the video showed.
One ICE officer told Reuters they have led people following them back to their houses after running their license plates “to freak them out.”
McLaughlin said ICE would review body camera footage and investigate the incident in St. Paul, but did not comment on ICE using the tactic to frighten opponents.
Earlier in January, two friends – Brandon Siguenza and Patty O’Keefe – who were following an ICE vehicle in Minneapolis said officers fired pepper spray into their car, smashed their car window and detained them for eight hours.
McLaughlin said officers gave them multiple warnings “to stop impeding” operations, but that they “chose to continue to stalk law enforcement and were arrested.”
“The passenger refused to roll down the window and exit the vehicle,” McLaughlin said. “ICE law enforcement followed their training and used the minimum amount of force necessary to make the arrest.”
McLaughlin did not explicitly confirm that officers broke the car window or deployed pepper spray.
Siguenza and O’Keefe have not been charged.
Reporting by Ted Hesson and Brad Heath in Washington, and Kristina Cooke in San Francisco. Additional reporting by Maria Tsvetkova, Monica Naime, Vinaya K, Marine Delrue, Tiffany Le, Fernando Robles and Gerardo Gomez. Editing by Craig Timberg, Diane Craft and Michael Learmonth
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Ted Hesson is an immigration reporter for Reuters, based in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on the policy and politics of immigration, asylum and border security. Prior to joining Reuters in 2019, Ted worked for the news outlet POLITICO, where he also covered immigration. His articles have appeared in POLITICO Magazine, The Atlantic and VICE News, among other publications. Ted holds a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and bachelor’s degree from Boston College.
Kristina Cooke is an investigative reporter at Reuters focused on immigration. In 2025, she was part of a team of reporters who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for coverage of the fentanyl supply chain. In 2023, she and colleagues were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for an investigation into migrant child labor in the United States. Originally from Germany, she joined Reuters in London in 2005 and is now based in San Francisco.
Brad Heath is an enterprise reporter in Washington. He focuses on law enforcement, criminal justice and using data to find out what the government is doing. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of the Virginia bar.
