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Tcherry’s mother could see that her 10-year-old son was not being taken care of.
Tcherry 的母亲可以看出她 10 岁的儿子没有得到照顾。
When he appeared on their video calls, his clothes were dirty.
当他出现在他们的视频通话中时，他的衣服很脏。
She asked who in the house was washing his shirts, the white Nike T-shirt and the yellow one with a handprint that he wore in rotation.
她问家里谁在洗他的衬衫，白色的耐克T恤和他轮流穿的印有手印的黄色衬衫。
He said nobody was, but he had tried his best to wash them by hand in the tub.
他说没人，但他已经尽力在浴缸里用手洗了。
His hair, which was buzzed short when he lived with his grandmother in Haiti, had now grown long and matted.
当他和祖母住在海地时，他的头发被剪得很短，现在已经长得又长又乱。
He had already been thin, but by January, after three months in the smuggler’s house, he was beginning to look gaunt.
他本来就很瘦，但到了一月份，在走私者家里待了三个月后，他开始显得憔悴了。
Tcherry told his mother that there was not enough food.
切里告诉他的母亲没有足够的食物。
He said he felt “empty inside.”
他说他感到“内心空虚”。
More strangers, most of them Haitian like Tcherry, continued to arrive at the house in the Bahamas on their way to the United States.
更多的陌生人，其中大多数是像切里一样的海地人，在前往美国的途中继续抵达巴哈马的房子。
One day police officers came with guns, and Tcherry hid in a corner; they left when a man gave them money.
有一天，警察带着枪来了，切里躲在一个角落里。当一个人给了他们钱后，他们就离开了。
The next time he and his mother talked, Tcherry lowered his bright, wide-set eyes and spoke to her in a quieter voice.
下次他和母亲说话时，切里低下他那双明亮的大眼睛，用更安静的声音对她说话。
“It was like he was hiding,” his mother, Stephania LaFortune, says.
“他就像在躲起来一样，”他的母亲斯蒂芬妮娅·拉福图恩 (Stephania LaFortune) 说道。
“He was scared.” Tcherry told her he didn’t want to spend another night on the thin mattress in the front room with scuffed pink walls.
“他很害怕。”切里告诉她，他不想在粉红色墙壁磨损的前室的薄床垫上再度过一个晚上。
She assured him it would be over soon.
她向他保证一切很快就会结束。
A boat would take him to Florida, and then he would join her in Canada, where she was applying for asylum.
一艘船将带他前往佛罗里达，然后他将前往加拿大与她会合，她在那里申请庇护。
LaFortune texted Tcherry photos of the city where she lived.
LaFortune 给 Tcherry 发了她所居住城市的照片。
The leaves had turned brown and fallen from the trees.
树叶变成棕色并从树上掉下来。
Still, she was there, and that’s where Tcherry wanted to be.
尽管如此，她仍然在那里，而这正是切里想要去的地方。
He waited another week, then two, then three.
他又等了一个星期，然后是两周，然后是三周。
Tcherry didn’t laugh or play for months on end, until one day in February, when two sisters, both Haitian citizens, were delivered to the house.
切里连续几个月没有笑或玩，直到二月的一天，两个海地公民姐妹被送到了家里。
One was a 4-year-old named Beana.
其中一个是 4 岁的孩子，名叫 Beana。
She wore a pink shirt and cried a lot.
她穿着一件粉红色的衬衫，哭了很多次。
The other, Claire, was 8.
另一个名叫克莱尔，8岁。
She had a round face and a burn on her hand; she said that at the last house they’d stayed in, a girl threw hot oil on her.
她有一张圆脸，手上有烧伤；她说，在他们住的最后一栋房子里，一个女孩向她泼了热油。
Claire did everything for her sister, helping her eat, bathe and use the bathroom.
克莱尔为姐姐做一切事情，帮她吃饭、洗澡、上厕所。
Like Tcherry, the girls were traveling to join their mother, who was working at a Michigan auto plant on a temporary legal status that did not allow her to bring her children from abroad.
和切里一样，女孩们也前往探望她们的母亲，她们的母亲在密歇根州的一家汽车工厂工作，其临时合法身份不允许她从国外带孩子来。
Their clothes were as dirty as his.
他们的衣服和他的一样脏。
Sometimes Tcherry and Claire watched videos on his phone.
有时，切里和克莱尔在他的手机上观看视频。
They talked about their mothers.
他们谈到了他们的母亲。
“I am thinking about you,” Tcherry said in a message to his mother in early February.
“我在想你，”切里在二月初给母亲的信息中说道。
“It has been a long time.”
“已经很久了。”
Finally, nearly four months after Tcherry arrived at the house, one of the men in charge of the smuggling operation woke him and the two girls early in the morning.
最后，在切里到达这所房子近四个月后，负责走私行动的一名男子一大早就叫醒了他和两个女孩。
“He told us to get ready,” Tcherry recalls.
“他告诉我们做好准备，”切里回忆道。
With nothing but the clothes they wore, no breakfast or ID, they were loaded into a van and were dropped off at a trash-lined canal just outside Freeport, Bahamas.
他们除了身上穿的衣服什么都没有，没有早餐，也没有身份证，他们被装进一辆货车，然后被扔到巴哈马自由港郊外一条垃圾横行的运河上。
In the muck and garbage, more than 50 people stood waiting as a boat motored toward them.
在淤泥和垃圾中，50 多人站在那里等待着一艘船向他们驶来。
“Not a good boat,” Tcherry told me, “a raggedy boat.” But nobody complained.
“这不是一艘好船，”切里告诉我，“一艘破烂的船。”但没有人抱怨。
The 40-foot vessel tilted from the weight as people climbed aboard and pushed into the two dank cabins, sitting shoulder to shoulder or standing because there was no more space.
当人们爬上船并推入两个潮湿的船舱时，这艘 40 英尺长的船因重量而倾斜。人们肩并肩坐着或站着，因为没有更多的空间。
Tcherry felt the boat speeding up, taking them out to sea.
切里感觉到船在加速，带着他们出海了。
For almost 12 hours they traveled west, packed together in cabins that now smelled of vomit and urine.
他们向西行驶了近 12 个小时，挤在小屋里，现在充满了呕吐物和尿味。
In the lower cabin, a baby was crying incessantly.
下舱里，一个婴儿正在不停地哭闹。
A heavily pregnant woman offered up the last of her package of cookies to the child’s mother to help soothe the infant.
一名大孕妇将最后一包饼干送给孩子的母亲，以帮助安抚婴儿。
Tcherry was thirsty and exhausted.
切里又渴又累。
Not far from him, he heard a woman say that the children’s parents must be wicked for sending them alone into the sea.
离他不远的地方，他听到一个女人说，孩子们的父母一定很邪恶，把他们独自送进了海里。
The passengers had been promised they would reach U.S. shores hours earlier.
乘客们已获许他们将提前几个小时抵达美国海岸。
People were starting to panic, sure that they were lost, when passengers sitting near the windows saw lights, at first flickering and then bright — the lights of cars and buildings.
人们开始惊慌，确信自己迷路了，这时坐在窗户附近的乘客看到灯光，先是闪烁，然后明亮——汽车和建筑物的灯光。
“That is Florida,” a young man said as the boat sped toward shore.
“那是佛罗里达州，”船驶向岸边时，一名年轻人说道。
Tcherry pulled on his sneakers.
切里穿上运动鞋。
“If I make it,” he thought, “I will spend Christmas with my family.”
“如果我成功了，”他想，“我会和家人一起过圣诞节。”
But as quickly as the lights of Florida came into view, police lights burst upon them.
但佛罗里达州的灯光一进入视野，警灯就突然照在他们身上。
A siren wailed.
警报响起。
People screamed, a helicopter circled overhead and an officer on a sheriff’s boat pointed a long gun toward them.
人们尖叫起来，一架直升机在头顶盘旋，警长船上的一名军官用长枪指着他们。
Uniformed men climbed on board, yelled orders and handed out life jackets.
身穿制服的男子爬上船，大声喊叫并分发救生衣。
The group of 54 people was transferred to a small Coast Guard cutter.
这群 54 人被转移到一艘小型海岸警卫队快艇上。
As the sun rose over Florida just beyond them, a man with a tattoo on his arm of a hand making the sign of the benediction began recording a video on his phone.
当太阳从他们身后的佛罗里达升起时，一名手臂上有纹身并做出祝福手势的男子开始用手机录制视频。
“As you can see, we are in Miami,” he said.
“如你所见，我们在迈阿密，”他说。
“As you can see, we are on a boat with a bunch of small children.” He intended to send the video to relatives waiting for him on land, and he urged them to contact lawyers.
“正如你所看到的，我们和一群小孩在船上。”他打算将视频发送给在陆地上等他的亲戚，并敦促他们联系律师。
But his phone was confiscated, and the video was never sent.
但他的手机被没收，视频也从未发送。
The Coast Guard frames its operations in the sea as lifesaving work: Crews rescue people from boats at risk of capsizing and pull them from the water.
海岸警卫队将其海上行动定位为救生工作：船员将有倾覆危险的船只上的人员救出，并将他们从水中拉出。
But the agency, which is an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, also operates as a maritime border patrol, its ships as floating holding facilities.
但该机构是国土安全部的一个部门，也负责海上边境巡逻，其船只作为浮动拘留设施。
Since the summer of 2021, the Coast Guard has detained more than 27,000 people, a number larger than in any similar period in nearly three decades.
自 2021 年夏季以来，海岸警卫队已拘留了超过 27,000 人，这一数字比近三十年来任何类似时期都要多。
On a single day in January, the agency’s fleet of ships off the Florida coast collectively held more than 1,000 people.
1 月份的一天，该机构在佛罗里达州海岸附近的船队总共载有 1000 多人。
The public has no way of knowing what happens on board.
公众无法知道船上发生了什么。
Unlike at the U.S.-Mexico border, which is closely monitored by advocates, the courts and the press, immigration enforcement at sea takes place out of public view.
与受到倡导者、法院和媒体密切监控的美墨边境不同，海上移民执法是在公众视野之外进行的。
The Coast Guard routinely denies journalists’ requests to witness immigration patrols, but in early March, I learned that several days earlier, a boat carrying dozens of Haitians had been stopped so close to land that they were first chased down by the Palm Beach County sheriff’s marine unit.
海岸警卫队经常拒绝记者目睹移民巡逻的要求，但在三月初，我了解到几天前，一艘载有数十名海地人的船在离陆地很近的地方被拦截，他们首先被棕榈滩县治安官的海军陆战队追赶。
Among them were three unaccompanied children: two young sisters and a 10-year-old boy.
其中包括三名无人陪伴的儿童：两名妹妹和一名10岁男孩。
In the months afterward, I obtained a trove of internal Coast Guard documents, including emails and a database of the agency’s immigration interdictions, and I tracked down Tcherry, Claire and Beana and 18 people traveling with them.
在接下来的几个月里，我获得了海岸警卫队的大量内部文件，包括电子邮件和该机构移民禁令的数据库，并找到了 Tcherry、Claire 和 Beana 以及与他们同行的 18 个人。
Many of them told me about the five days they spent detained on Coast Guard ships — an experience, one man said, “that will remain a scar in each person’s mind.”
他们中的许多人向我讲述了他们在海岸警卫队船只上被拘留的五天的经历，一位男子说，这种经历“将在每个人的心中留下疤痕。”
People intercepted at sea, even in U.S. waters, have fewer rights than those who come by land.
在海上被拦截的人，即使是在美国水域，所享有的权利也比陆上拦截的人少。
“Asylum does not apply at sea,” a Coast Guard spokesperson told me.
“庇护不适用于海上，”海岸警卫队发言人告诉我。
Even people who are fleeing violence, rape and death, who on land would be likely to pass an initial asylum screening, are routinely sent back to the countries they’ve fled.
即使是逃离暴力、强奸和死亡的人，在陆地上可能会通过初步庇护筛选，也通常会被送回他们逃离的国家。
To try to get through, people held on Coast Guard ships have occasionally taken to harming themselves — swallowing sharp objects, stabbing themselves with smuggled knives — in the hope that they’ll be rushed to emergency rooms on land where they can try to claim asylum.
为了逃过一劫，被海岸警卫队船上的人有时会自残——吞下锋利的物体，用走私的刀具刺伤自己——希望他们能被紧急送往陆地上的急诊室，在那里他们可以申请庇护。
The restrictions, combined with the nearly 30-year spike in maritime migration, created a crisis for the Coast Guard too, leading to what one senior Coast Guard official described in an internal email in February as “war-fighting levels of stress and fatigue.” Coast Guard crew members described to me their distress at having to reject desperate person after desperate person, but the worst part of the job, several said, was turning away the children who were traveling alone.
这些限制，再加上近 30 年来海上移民的激增，也给海岸警卫队带来了一场危机，导致海岸警卫队一位高级官员在 2 月份的一封内部电子邮件中称，“压力和疲劳程度达到了作战水平”。海岸警卫队的工作人员向我描述了他们不得不拒绝一个又一个绝望的人的痛苦，但一些人说，这项工作最糟糕的部分是拒绝独自旅行的孩子。
From July 2021 to September 2023, the number of children without parents or guardians held by the Coast Guard spiked, a nearly tenfold increase over the prior two years.
从2021年7月到2023年9月，海岸警卫队扣押的没有父母或监护人的儿童数量激增，比前两年增加了近十倍。
Most of them were Haitian.
他们大多数是海地人。
“The hardest ones for me are the unaccompanied minors,” one crew member told me.
“对我来说最困难的是无人陪伴的未成年人，”一名船员告诉我。
“They’re put on this boat to try to come to America, and they have no one.”
“他们被送上这艘船试图来到美国，但他们没有人。”
The treatment of children is perhaps the starkest difference between immigration policy on land and at sea.
儿童待遇或许是陆地和海上移民政策最明显的区别。
At land borders, unaccompanied minors from countries other than Mexico and Canada cannot simply be turned back.
在陆地边境，来自墨西哥和加拿大以外国家的无人陪伴的未成年人不能简单地被遣返。
They are assigned government caseworkers and are often placed in shelters, then with family members, on track to gain legal status.
他们被指派为政府社会工作者，通常被安置在庇护所，然后与家人一起，有望获得合法身份。
That system has its own serious failings, but the principle is that children must be protected.
该制度有其严重缺陷，但原则是必须保护儿童。
Not so at sea.
在海上则不然。
U.S. courts have not determined what protections should extend to minors held on U.S. ships, even those detained well within U.S. waters.
美国法院尚未确定应向美国船只上拘留的未成年人提供哪些保护，即使是那些被拘留在美国水域内的未成年人。
The Coast Guard says that its crew members screen children to identify “human-trafficking indicators and protection concerns including fear of return.” A spokesperson told me that “migrants who indicate a fear of return receive further screening” by Homeland Security officials.
海岸警卫队表示，其船员会对儿童进行筛查，以识别“人口贩运迹象和保护问题，包括担心返回”。一位发言人告诉我，国土安全官员“对表现出恐惧返回的移民进行进一步筛查”。
But of the almost 500 unaccompanied children held on the agency’s cutters in the Caribbean and the Straits of Florida between July 2021 and early September 2023, five were allowed into the U.S. because federal agencies believed they would face persecution at home, even amid escalating violence in Haiti, including the documented murder and rape of children.
但 2021 年 7 月至 2023 年 9 月初，该机构在加勒比海和佛罗里达海峡的快艇上关押了近 500 名无人陪伴的儿童，其中有 5 人被允许进入美国，因为联邦机构认为他们在家里会面临迫害，即使海地暴力不断升级，包括有记录的谋杀和强奸儿童。
One other child was medically evacuated to a hospital in Florida, and six were brought to land for reasons that the internal Coast Guard records do not explain.
另有一名儿童被送往佛罗里达州的一家医院进行医疗疏散，六名儿童被带到陆地，原因海岸警卫队内部记录没有解释。
The rest were delivered back to the countries they left, and it’s often unclear where they go once they return.
其余的则被送回他们离开的国家，而且通常不清楚他们返回后去了哪里。
Some have nowhere to stay and no one to take care of them.
有些人无处可住，也无人照顾。
On occasion, they are so young that they don’t know the names of their parents or the country where they were born.
有时，他们太小了，以至于不知道父母的名字或出生的国家。
One official from an agency involved in processing people delivered by the U.S. Coast Guard to Haiti told me “it is an open secret” that the process can be dangerously inconsistent.
负责处理美国海岸警卫队运送到海地的人员的机构的一名官员告诉我，“这是一个公开的秘密”，这一过程可能会出现危险的不一致。
“Children leave the port,” the official said, “and what happens to them after they leave, no one knows.”
“孩子们离开港口，”这位官员说，“他们离开后会发生什么，没有人知道。”
Stephania LaFortune had not wanted to send her 10-year-old son on a boat by himself.
Stephania LaFortune 不想独自送她 10 岁的儿子上船。
She knew firsthand how perilous the journey could be.
她亲身经历过这段旅程有多么危险。
In May 2021, before the boat she had boarded made it to a Florida beach, some of the passengers jumped into the water to wade through the heavy waves.
2021年5月，在她乘坐的船抵达佛罗里达海滩之前，一些乘客跳入水中涉过大浪。
“They almost drowned,” she told me when I met her in Toronto.
“他们差点被淹死，”当我在多伦多遇见她时，她告诉我。
LaFortune waited on the beached vessel until U.S. Border Patrol officials came to detain her.
拉福图恩在搁浅的船上等待，直到美国边境巡逻人员前来拘留她。
In detention, she claimed asylum and was soon released.
在拘留期间，她申请庇护并很快被释放。
For months, she searched for other ways to bring Tcherry to her, but LaFortune ultimately determined she had no alternative.
几个月来，她一直在寻找其他方法将 Tcherry 带到她身边，但 LaFortune 最终认定她别无选择。
The first time LaFortune left Tcherry, he was 3 years old.
拉福图恩第一次离开切里时，他才三岁。
Her husband, a police cadet, had been shot in his uniform and left to die in a ditch outside Port-au-Prince, and LaFortune, fearing for her life, departed for the Bahamas.
她的丈夫是一名警校学员，穿着制服中枪，被扔在太子港郊外的沟渠里等死，拉福图恩担心自己的生命安全，于是前往巴哈马群岛。
Tcherry stayed behind with his grandmother.
切里留在了他的祖母身边。
Four years later, as violence began to flare again, Tcherry’s mother finally made good on her promise to send for him.
四年后，随着暴力事件再次爆发，切里的母亲终于兑现了派人来接他的承诺。
She arranged for him to fly to the Bahamas, where she had remarried and had a baby girl.
她安排他飞往巴哈马，在那里她再婚并生了一个女婴。
But Tcherry was in the Bahamas not even a year when LaFortune told him that she would be leaving again — not because she wanted to, she assured her sobbing son, but because she had seen how Haitians were harassed and deported, and she simply didn’t believe there was real opportunity there.
但切里在巴哈马还不到一年，拉福图恩就告诉他她将再次离开——她向哭泣的儿子保证，不是因为她想离开，而是因为她看到了海地人如何受到骚扰和驱逐，她根本不相信那里有真正的机会。
Tcherry’s stepfather and his younger half sister, who were Bahamian citizens, joined LaFortune months later.
切里的继父和同父异母的妹妹都是巴哈马公民，几个月后加入了拉福图恩。
She arranged for Tcherry to live with relatives, promising to send for him as soon as she could.
她安排切里与亲戚住在一起，并承诺尽快派人去接他。
LaFortune’s asylum case in Florida dragged on, so she and her husband and daughter traveled over land to Canada, where they hoped they could get legal status more quickly.
拉福图恩在佛罗里达州的庇护案一拖再拖，因此她和丈夫和女儿从陆路前往加拿大，希望能更快地获得合法身份。
While they waited for a decision in their asylum case, the relative Tcherry was staying with said he could no longer take care of a growing boy by himself.
当他们等待庇护案件的决定时，切里住在一起的亲戚说他无法再独自照顾一个正在成长的男孩。
After begging others to take her son, LaFortune found a woman she knew back in Haiti who said she was planning to make the trip to Florida herself with her own children.
在恳求其他人带走她的儿子后，拉福图恩找到了一位她在海地认识的妇女，她说她打算带着自己的孩子前往佛罗里达州。
For $3,000, the woman said, she could take Tcherry with them.
这位女士说，只要 3,000 美元，她就可以带着 Tcherry 一起去。
LaFortune sent the money.
拉福图恩把钱寄了过来。
The woman took Tcherry to the smuggler’s house and did not return for him.
这名女子将切里带到了走私犯的家中，但没有再回来接他。
That house, and the one where Tcherry was moved next, were filled with Haitians fleeing the crisis that began in July 2021, when President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by a team of mostly Colombian mercenaries hired through a Miami-area security company.
那栋房子，也是切尔里接下来搬到的房子，里面挤满了逃离 2021 年 7 月开始的危机的海地人，当时总统若弗内尔·莫伊兹被迈阿密地区一家安全公司雇佣的一支主要由哥伦比亚雇佣兵组成的团队暗杀。
The U.S. Justice Department has accused nearly a dozen people, some based in the United States, of setting the assassination in motion .
美国司法部指控近十几人策划了这起暗杀事件，其中一些人居住在美国。
As the Haitian state crumbled, proliferating gangs, many with ties to the country’s political elite, burst from the neighborhoods they’d long controlled and began terrorizing Port-au-Prince and swaths of the rest of the country.
随着海地国家的崩溃，不断壮大的帮派（其中许多与该国政治精英有联系）从他们长期控制的社区爆发出来，开始恐吓太子港和该国其他地区。
Kidnapping, extortion, the rape of women and children, and the torching of homes and neighborhoods became routine weapons of fear .
绑架、勒索、强奸妇女和儿童以及焚烧房屋和社区成为恐惧的常规武器。
Thousands have been murdered, and in June the United Nations estimated that nearly 200,000 have been internally displaced.
数千人被谋杀，联合国 6 月份估计有近 20 万人在国内流离失所。
Haitians able to gather the resources have left however they can.
能够聚集资源的海地人已尽其所能离开。
Many have traveled over land to the Dominican Republic or by air to South and Central America.
许多人通过陆路前往多米尼加共和国或乘飞机前往南美洲和中美洲。
And thousands have boarded boats bound for the beaches of Florida.
数千人登上了开往佛罗里达海滩的船只。
The people on the vessel with Tcherry had reasons, each as urgent as the next, for being there.
和切里一起船上的人都有理由来到那里，每个理由都同样紧迫。
There was a 31-year-old street vendor whose Port-au-Prince neighborhood had been taken over by gangs; she said that when she tried to flee north by bus, men with guns forced her and other women off the bus and raped them.
有一名 31 岁的街头小贩，他的太子港社区已被帮派占领；她说，当她试图乘公共汽车逃往北方时，持枪男子强迫她和其他妇女下车并强奸了她们。
A man from a district in the north said he’d been beaten more than once by thugs sent by a political boss he’d opposed; both times they threatened to kill him.
一名来自北部地区的男子说，他不止一次被他反对的政治领袖派来的暴徒殴打；他们两次都威胁要杀死他。
A man who worked as a Vodou priest in Port-au-Prince said he left because he needed money for his sick daughter, and gangs were confiscating his wages.
一名在太子港担任伏都教牧师的男子表示，他离开是因为他需要钱来照顾生病的女儿，而帮派没收了他的工资。
The pregnant woman who helped comfort the crying baby said she had been kidnapped and raped; she was released only after her family sold land and collected donations to pay for her ransom.
帮助安抚哭泣婴儿的孕妇表示，她被绑架并被强奸了；在她的家人出售土地并筹集捐款支付赎金后，她才被释放。
Two women were traveling with their daughters, but Tcherry, Claire and Beana were the only young children traveling alone.
两名妇女带着她们的女儿旅行，但切里、克莱尔和比纳是唯一独自旅行的小孩。
Tcherry sat on the deck of a Coast Guard cutter called the Manowar along with the rest of the group, exhausted, scared and confused.
切里和其他人一起坐在海岸警卫队一艘名为马诺瓦尔号的快艇的甲板上，疲惫、害怕和困惑。
Nobody had explained to him what would happen next.
没有人向他解释接下来会发生什么。
Crew members in blue uniforms finally gave them food, small plates of rice and beans, and began to search their belongings and run their photos and fingerprints through federal immigration and criminal databases.
身穿蓝色制服的工作人员最终给了他们食物、一小盘米饭和豆子，并开始搜查他们的物品，并通过联邦移民和犯罪数据库检查他们的照片和指纹。
Tcherry and the sisters followed the orders of a crew member with blond hair, cut like the soldiers in movies Tcherry had seen, to sit in the shaded spot under the stairs to the bridge.
切里和姐妹们按照一位金发船员的命令，坐在通往舰桥的楼梯下的阴凉处，金发船员的发型就像切里看过的电影中的士兵一样。
On the stern of the cutter, a man in his early 30s named Peterson sat watching the children.
在快艇的船尾，一位名叫彼得森的 30 岁出头的男子坐在那儿看着孩子们。
He had crossed paths with them weeks earlier in one of the houses; seeing they were hungry, he had brought them extra slices of bread and even cut Tcherry’s hair.
几周前，他曾在其中一所房子里与他们相遇。看到他们饿了，他给他们带来了额外的面包片，甚至还给切里剪了头发。
Claire reminded him of his own young daughter in Haiti.
克莱尔让他想起了自己在海地的小女儿。
Peterson had not wanted to leave his child, but gangs had recently taken control of roadways not far from his home in the coastal city of Saint-Marc.
彼得森不想离开他的孩子，但帮派最近控制了离他位于沿海城市圣马克的家不远的道路。
He had not earned a decent wage for many months, not since he lost his job as a driver at a missionary organization.
自从他失去传教组织司机的工作以来，他已经好几个月没有赚到像样的工资了。
He had decided to leave for the United States so he could send money back to Haiti for his daughter, who remained behind with her mother.
他决定前往美国，以便为留在海地的女儿寄钱，女儿和母亲一起留在了这里。
Now it occurred to Peterson that his connection to Tcherry and the girls could work to his advantage.
现在，彼得森突然想到，他与切里和女孩们的联系可能对他有利。
Surely the Coast Guard wouldn’t return children to Haiti, he thought.
他想，海岸警卫队肯定不会把孩子们送回海地。
Surely they wouldn’t separate a family.
他们当然不会拆散一个家庭。
“I thought that there might be an opportunity for me to get to the U.S.,” he told me.
“我认为我可能有机会去美国，”他告诉我。
He approached Tcherry, Claire and Beana and told them they should tell the crew he was their uncle.
他找到切里、克莱尔和比纳，告诉他们应该告诉船员他是他们的叔叔。
Peterson’s small kindness in the smuggler’s house had given Tcherry reason to trust him.
彼得森在走私者家里的一点小善意让切里有理由信任他。
When it came time for the blond-haired crew member, Petty Officer Timothy James, to interview the children, Peterson stood close behind.
当金发船员蒂莫西·詹姆斯中士采访孩子们时，彼得森紧随其后。
With the help of another Haitian man who spoke some English, Peterson told James that he was their uncle.
在另一位会说英语的海地男子的帮助下，彼得森告诉詹姆斯，他是他们的叔叔。
James asked the children if it was true.
詹姆斯问孩子们这是不是真的。
Tcherry and Claire, both timid, their eyes lowered, said it was.
切尔里和克莱尔都很胆怯，垂着眼睛，说是的。
Beana was too young to understand.
比纳还太小，无法理解。
James handed her a brown teddy bear, which the crew of the Manowar keeps on board because of the growing number of children they detain, and sent the children back to the stern.
詹姆斯递给她一只棕色泰迪熊，马诺瓦尔号的船员因为拘留的儿童数量不断增加而将其留在船上，然后将孩子们送回船尾。
But no more than a couple of hours later, Peterson changed his mind.
但不到几个小时后，彼得森改变了主意。
He’d noticed that the pregnant woman had been evaluated by Florida EMTs, and he moved over to offer her a deal: If she would tell the crew he was her husband and let him join her if they brought her to land, his brother in Florida, who already paid $6,000 for his place on this boat, would make sure she was compensated.
他注意到这名孕妇已经接受了佛罗里达州急救人员的评估，于是他走过去向她提出了一项协议：如果她能告诉船员他是她的丈夫，并让他在他们带她上岸时加入她，那么他在佛罗里达州的兄弟（已经为他在这艘船上的座位支付了 6,000 美元）将确保她得到补偿。
“I helped her understand that that is something she could profit from,” he says.
“我帮助她明白，这是她可以从中获利的东西，”他说。
The woman agreed, and Peterson, who now needed to tell the truth about the children, divulged to a crew member that he was not their uncle.
这位女士同意了，彼得森现在需要说出有关孩子们的真相，他向一名船员透露，他不是他们的叔叔。
“I was just trying to help if I could,” he said.
“我只是想尽我所能提供帮助，”他说。
James crouched down beside the children again and told them not to lie.
詹姆斯再次在孩子们身边蹲下，告诉他们不要撒谎。
“Why did you leave your home to go to the United States,” he read off a questionnaire.
“你为什么离开家去美国，”他宣读了一份调查问卷。
“To go to my parents,” Tcherry replied.
“去找我父母，”切里回答道。
To Tcherry, the questions seemed like a good sign.
对于切里来说，这些问题似乎是一个好兆头。
He was unsure whether he could trust these crew members after the officer on the sheriff boat pointed a long gun at them the night before.
前一天晚上，治安船上的军官用长枪指着这些船员，他不确定自己是否可以信任这些船员。
“I thought they were going to shoot me,” Tcherry says.
“我以为他们会开枪射杀我，”切里说。
But James calmly directed the children to sit in the one shaded place on the boat, and gave them cookies and slices of apple.
但詹姆斯平静地引导孩子们坐在船上一处阴凉的地方，并给了他们饼干和苹果片。
“He was nice,” Tcherry says — the nicest anyone had been since Peterson brought them bread in the house.
“他很好，”切里说——自从彼得森给他们带来面包以来，他是最好的人。
James kept reading the form.
詹姆斯继续阅读表格。
“What will happen when you get there?” he asked.
“当你到达那里时会发生什么？”他问道。
Tcherry looked up.
切里抬起头来。
He latched onto the words “when you get there” and took them as a promise.
他紧紧抓住“当你到达那里时”这句话，并将其视为一个承诺。
He asked James when they would be on land.
他问詹姆斯他们什么时候能上陆地。
James said the same thing he told everyone on the boat: that the decision was not up to him, that he was just doing his job.
詹姆斯说了同样的话，他告诉船上的每个人：决定不取决于他，他只是在做他的工作。
Tcherry was convinced James would send him and Claire and Beana to their mothers.
切里确信詹姆斯会把他、克莱尔和比纳送到他们的母亲身边。
He thought of the story his mother had told him about his father’s murder, his body in a ditch by the road, and of his last memory of Haiti, when he passed through a gang checkpoint on the way to the airport.
他想起了母亲告诉他的故事，关于他父亲被谋杀、他的尸体躺在路边沟里的故事，以及他在去机场的路上经过一个帮派检查站时对海地的最后记忆。
“I saw bandits approaching toward us, and he had a gun pulled,” Tcherry told me.
“我看到强盗向我们走来，他拔出了枪，”切里告诉我。
“My heart started beating fast, and I thought he was going to shoot.” He was overwhelmed with relief that he would never have to go back there.
“我的心跳得很快，我以为他要开枪了。”他感到如释重负，因为他再也不用回到那里了。
A boat came to bring someone to land.
一艘船来载人上岸。
But it was not there to pick up Tcherry or the other children.
但它并不是来接切里或其他孩子的。
A Coast Guard medical officer had reviewed the pregnant woman’s vitals and made a decision that because she “may go into labor at any moment,” she would be brought to a hospital in Palm Beach County accompanied by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
一名海岸警卫队医务人员检查了孕妇的生命体征，并做出决定，因为她“随时可能分娩”，因此将在美国海关和边境保护局的陪同下将她送往棕榈滩县的一家医院。
Before she was taken away, Peterson said the woman told him she would not claim to be married to him after all.
彼得森说，在她被带走之前，这名女子告诉他，她毕竟不会声称与他结婚。
She didn’t want a stranger on her baby’s birth certificate.
她不希望孩子的出生证明上出现陌生人。
She offered to say she was his cousin.
她主动说她是他的表弟。
“I knew that being the cousin would not be enough,” Peterson recalls, “and I have to say that I lost hope.”
“我知道仅仅作为表弟是不够的，”彼得森回忆道，“我不得不说我失去了希望。”
The pregnant woman disappeared on a small boat toward land.
孕妇乘坐一艘驶向陆地的小船消失了。
Those left on the stern began to talk among themselves, asking why the baby, who had barely stopped crying, and the other children had been left aboard the cutter.
留在船尾的人开始互相交谈，询问为什么刚刚停止哭泣的婴儿和其他孩子被留在船上。
They said they could not keep going like this, eating only small portions of scarcely cooked and saltless rice and beans, unable to bathe and forced to urinate and defecate in a toilet seat attached to a metal box with a tube off the side of the open deck.
他们说，他们不能继续这样下去，只吃一小部分几乎没有煮熟的无盐米饭和豆类，无法洗澡，被迫在马桶座圈上小便和排便，马桶座圈连接在一个金属盒子上，金属盒子位于露天甲板一侧，有一根管子。
They decided they would rise in unison and protest, and they passed the word from one to the next.
他们决定一致起立抗议，并把这一消息从一个人传给另一个人。
At around 9 p.m., dozens of people began to yell toward the bridge demanding interpreters, lawyers or just to know what would become of them.
晚上 9 点左右，数十人开始向桥大喊，要求翻译、律师，或者只是想知道他们会遭遇什么。
From the bow where he stood, James heard faint yelling, and then the voice of the officer in charge over the loudspeaker.
詹姆斯站在船头，听到微弱的喊叫声，然后扩音器里传来负责军官的声音。
“They’re starting an uprising on the fantail,” he said.
“他们正在扇尾上发动起义，”他说。
“I need you back there.”
“我需要你回到那里。”
Timothy James came from a conservative family in a conservative little town in the mountains of North Carolina.
蒂莫西·詹姆斯来自北卡罗来纳州山区一个保守小镇的一个保守家庭。
He and his wife held handguns aloft in their wedding photos, and his first job after dropping out of college was as a sheriff’s deputy at the jail.
他和妻子在结婚照中高举手枪，大学退学后的第一份工作是在监狱担任副警长。
James joined the Coast Guard in 2015.
詹姆斯于 2015 年加入海岸警卫队。
“My main goal,” he told me, “was to chase down drug runners and catch migrants” — two groups that were more or less the same, as far as he understood.
“我的主要目标，”他告诉我，“是追捕毒贩和抓捕移民”——据他了解，这两个群体或多或少是相同的。
He’d been on the job no more than a few weeks before his expectations were upended.
他上任不到几周，他的期望就被打破了。
“I had no idea what I was talking about,” he told me.
“我不知道我在说什么，”他告诉我。
There was much less “running and gunning, catching bad guys” than he’d anticipated.
“跑枪抓坏人”的情况比他预想的要少得多。
Instead, the people he detained would tell him their stories, sometimes with the help of Google Translate on his phone, about violence and deprivation like he had never contemplated.
相反，被他拘留的人会向他讲述他们的故事，有时会借助手机上谷歌翻译的帮助，讲述他从未想过的暴力和贫困。
People described what it was like to live on $12 a month.
人们描述了每月靠 12 美元生活的感觉。
There were children and grandmothers who could have been his own, and young men not so unlike him.
他的孩子和祖母本可以是他自己的，而年轻人也和他没什么不同。
They were not trying to infiltrate the country as he’d thought.
他们并没有像他想象的那样试图渗透到这个国家。
They were running because “they didn’t have another option,” he says.
他说，他们跑步是因为“他们没有其他选择”。
James and his colleagues learned the lengths people would go to try to get to land.
詹姆斯和他的同事们了解了人们为尝试着陆而付出的努力。
Since last fall, people detained on cutters have pulled jagged metal cotter pins, bolts and screws from the rigging and swallowed them, apparently trying to cause such severe injury that they’d be taken to a hospital.
自去年秋天以来，被拘留在切割机上的人们从索具上拔出锯齿状的金属开口销、螺栓和螺钉并将其吞下，显然是试图造成严重伤害，以致被送往医院。
Last August, near the Florida Keys, three Cuban men were reported to the Coast Guard by a passing towboat operator; most likely fearing they would be brought back to Cuba, they stabbed and slashed their legs with blades and were found in puddles of blood.
去年八月，在佛罗里达群岛附近，一名路过的拖船操作员向海岸警卫队报告了三名古巴男子；他们很可能担心自己会被带回古巴，因此用刀片刺伤并割伤了自己的腿，被发现时倒在血泊中。
In January, a man plunged a five-inch buck-style knife that he’d carried onto a cutter into the side of his torso and slashed it down his rib cage.
一月份，一名男子将随身携带的一把五英寸长的巴克式刀插入他的躯干侧面，然后将其划入他的胸腔。
The crew taped the knife to the wound to stop him from bleeding out as he fell unconscious.
当他昏迷不醒时，工作人员将刀贴在伤口上以防止流血。
Most of these people were delivered to Customs and Border Protection and rushed to hospitals on land, where they probably intended to claim asylum.
这些人中的大多数被送往海关和边境保护局，并被送往陆地医院，他们可能打算在那里寻求庇护。
By the time James began working as operations officer on the Manowar last summer, he and other crew members started every leg at sea by scouring the decks for anything that people might use to harm themselves.
去年夏天，当詹姆斯开始在马诺瓦尔号上担任运营官时，他和其他船员在海上的每一段旅程都开始在甲板上搜寻人们可能用来伤害自己的任何东西。
(According to a DHS spokesperson, “medical evacuations do not mean that migrants have a greater chance of remaining in the United States.”)
（国土安全部发言人表示，“医疗后送并不意味着移民有更大的机会留在美国。”）
People detained on cutters have in rare cases threatened to harm Coast Guard members or others they’re traveling with.
在极少数情况下，被拘留在快艇上的人威胁要伤害海岸警卫队成员或与他们同行的其他人。
In January, a group the Coast Guard detained pushed crew members and locked arms to stop their removal to another cutter, according to an internal record.
根据一份内部记录，一月份，海岸警卫队拘留的一群人推挤船员并锁住手臂，阻止他们被转移到另一艘快艇上。
That same month, a group of Haitians held children over the side of a boat, “threatening to throw them overboard and set them on fire” if the Coast Guard came closer.
同月，一群海地人将儿童抱在船边，“威胁说，如果海岸警卫队靠近，就把他们扔到船上并点火”。
Weeks later, a group of Cubans brandished poles with nails hammered into them and tried to attack an approaching Coast Guard boat.
几周后，一群古巴人挥舞着钉有钉子的杆子，试图攻击一艘接近的海岸警卫队船只。
Conflicts between crew and those they detain have escalated to the point that Coast Guard members have shot people with pepper balls and subdued others with stun maneuvers.
船员和被拘留者之间的冲突已经升级，以至于海岸警卫队成员用胡椒球射击人员，并用眩晕动作制服其他人。
James tensed as he heard the order over the loudspeaker.
当詹姆斯从扩音器里听到这个命令时，他紧张起来。
He thought of the crowd-control techniques he’d learned to immobilize someone, and stepped down the side walkway toward the stern.
他想起了他学会的控制人群的技巧，让某人无法动弹，然后沿着侧走道朝船尾走去。
In front of him were dozens of angry men and a few women, yelling in Haitian Creole.
在他面前有几十名愤怒的男人和几个女人，用海地克里奥尔语大喊大叫。
James hesitated and then walked forcefully up to the group, his hands pulled into his sides as if he were ready to throw a punch.
詹姆斯犹豫了一下，然后用力走到这群人面前，双手放在身体两侧，仿佛准备出拳。
Instead, he took a knee.
相反，他单膝跪下。
He gestured to the men around him to come join him.
他示意周围的人过来和他一起。
He spoke into a cellphone in English, and on the screen he showed them the Google Translate app: “You’ve got to tell everybody to calm down,” it read in Creole.
他用英语对着手机说话，然后在屏幕上向他们展示了谷歌翻译应用程序：“你必须告诉每个人冷静下来，”它用克里奥尔语读着。
“I can’t help you if I don’t know what’s going on.”
“如果我不知道发生了什么事，我就无法帮助你。”
Before they could respond, five other crew members came down the stairs, plastic zip ties and batons hanging from their belts.
在他们做出反应之前，另外五名船员从楼梯上下来，腰带上挂着塑料扎带和警棍。
Tcherry was sitting under the stairs, beside Claire and Beana, who had not let go of the teddy bear.
切里坐在楼梯下，旁边是克莱尔和比纳，他们还没有放开泰迪熊。
“Shut up, shut up,” one of the crew told the protesters as he stepped in front of Tcherry.
“闭嘴，闭嘴，”一名工作人员走到切里面前时对抗议者说道。
“One of them said he was going to pepper-spray their eyes and handcuff them,” Tcherry says.
“其中一个人说他要向他们的眼睛喷胡椒喷雾，然后给他们戴上手铐，”切里说。
James told his colleagues to wait.
詹姆斯告诉他的同事们等待。
The yelling in English and Creole grew louder.
用英语和克里奥尔语喊叫的声音越来越大。
A man to Tcherry’s left began to scream and roll on the ground, and then he rolled partway under the handrail.
切里左边的一个男人开始尖叫，在地上打滚，然后滚到了扶手下面。
A crew member grabbed the man by the back of the pants and hauled him up.
一名船员抓住该男子的裤后，将他拉了上来。
James secured his wrist to a post on the deck.
詹姆斯将手腕固定在甲板上的一根柱子上。
“Nobody’s dying on my boat today,” James said.
“今天没有人死在我的船上，”詹姆斯说。
Above Tcherry, another crew member stepped onto the landing at the top of the stairs.
在切里上方，另一名机组人员走上了楼梯顶部的平台。
He held a shotgun and cocked it.
他拿着一把霰弹枪并拉上了扳机。
James claims that the gun was not loaded, but the threat of violence had its intended effect.
詹姆斯声称枪没有装弹，但暴力威胁达到了预期效果。
The protesters stepped back and went quiet.
抗议者后退并安静下来。
James kept speaking into the phone.
詹姆斯继续对着电话说话。
“What do you want?” he asked the men.
“你想要什么？”他问那些人。
“If we go back, we’re dead,” one man replied.
“如果我们回去，我们就死定了，”一名男子回答道。
They said they could not endure being on the boat much longer.
他们说他们无法再忍受在船上呆太久了。
“If it were up to me, we’d be taking you to land,” James said.
“如果由我决定，我们就会带你着陆，”詹姆斯说。
“But it is not up to us.” There was a process to seek protection, he told them.
“但这不取决于我们。”他告诉他们，寻求保护有一个过程。
“But what you’re doing now is not that process.”
“但你现在所做的并不是那个过程。”
Coast Guard crews do not decide who will be offered protection and who will be sent back.
海岸警卫队人员无法决定谁将受到保护以及谁将被遣返。
Their responsibility is only to document what the agency calls “manifestation of fear” (MOF) claims.
他们的责任只是记录该机构所谓的“恐惧表现”（MOF）的说法。
The Coast Guard instructs them to make note of such claims only when people proactively assert them or when they observe people exhibiting signs of fear, such as shaking or crying.
海岸警卫队指示他们，只有当人们主动提出此类主张或观察到人们表现出恐惧的迹象（例如发抖或哭泣）时，才应记录此类主张。
They are not supposed to ask.
他们不应该问。
That may help explain why the agency has logged only 1,900 claims from more than 27,000 people detained in this region between July 2021 and September 2023.
这可能有助于解释为什么该机构在 2021 年 7 月至 2023 年 9 月期间只记录了该地区 27,000 多名被拘留者的 1,900 份索赔要求。
Fewer than 300 of those came from Haitians, even though they make up about a third of people held on cutters.
其中不到 300 人来自海地，尽管海地人约占被扣押人员的三分之一。
Officials in the Coast Guard and in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told me that Haitians face a systemic disadvantage in making a successful claim for protection: Almost no one working on Coast Guard boats can speak or understand Creole.
海岸警卫队和美国公民及移民服务局的官员告诉我，海地人在成功申请保护方面面临着系统性劣势：几乎没有在海岸警卫队船上工作的人会说或理解克里奥尔语。
(The Coast Guard told me it has access to contracted Creole interpreters aboard cutters.)
（海岸警卫队告诉我，他们可以在快艇上聘请克里奥尔语翻译。）
Regardless of the person’s nationality, the process is nearly always a dead end.
无论该人的国籍如何，这个过程几乎总是一个死胡同。
Each person who makes a claim for protection is supposed to be referred to a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officer, who conducts a “credible fear” screening by phone or in person on a cutter.
每个提出保护申请的人都应该被转介给美国公民和移民服务官员，该官员通过电话或亲自使用切割机进行“可信的恐惧”筛查。
Between July 2021 and early September 2023, USCIS approved about 60 of the approximately 1,900 claims — around 3%.
2021 年 7 月至 2023 年 9 月初，美国移民局批准了约 1,900 份申请中的约 60 份，约占 3%。
By contrast, about 60% of asylum applicants on land passed a credible-fear screening over roughly the same period.
相比之下，大约 60% 的陆上庇护申请人在大约同一时期通过了可信恐惧筛查。
Unlike on land, people who are denied on ships have no access to courts or lawyers to appeal the decision.
与陆地上不同的是，在船上被拒绝的人无法向法院或律师提出上诉。
And the few who are approved are not sent to the United States at all.
而获得批准的少数人根本不会被送往美国。
Should they choose to proceed with their claims, they are delivered to an immigration holding facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, where they are evaluated again.
如果他们选择继续提出申请，他们将被送往关塔那摩湾美国海军基地的移民拘留设施，并在那里再次接受评估。
They’re told they should be prepared to wait for two years or more, until another country agrees to take them as refugees.
他们被告知应该准备等待两年或更长时间，直到另一个国家同意接受他们作为难民。
Only 36 of the people with approved claims agreed to be sent to Guantánamo.
在申请获得批准的人中，只有 36 人同意被送往关塔那摩。
The State Department says there are currently no unaccompanied minors held at the Migrant Operations Center at Guantánamo, but a recent federal contract document says that the facility is prepared to accept them.
美国国务院表示，关塔那摩移民行动中心目前没有关押无人陪伴的未成年人，但最近的一份联邦合同文件称，该设施已准备好接收他们。
The Manowar crew had been tasked by the local Coast Guard office with logging any requests for protection.
当地海岸警卫队办公室责成马诺瓦尔号船员记录任何保护请求。
But the night after the protest had been too chaotic and exhausting for them to do so.
但抗议后的那个晚上太混乱了，他们筋疲力尽，无法这样做。
In the morning, a larger cutter with more supplies arrived.
早上，一艘更大的切割机带着更多补给品抵达。
The people detained on the Manowar would be transferred to that boat.
马诺瓦尔号上被拘留的人将被转移到那艘船上。
Before they departed, James told them that anyone who intended to seek protection should seek help from the crew on the next boat.
在他们出发之前，詹姆斯告诉他们，任何想要寻求保护的人都应该向下一艘船上的船员寻求帮助。
“Tell them, ‘I’m in fear for my life,’ just like you told me,” he said.
“告诉他们，‘我担心自己的生命安全’，就像你告诉我的那样，”他说。
“You tell whoever is processing you that specific thing.”
“你告诉正在处理你具体事情的人。”
But subsequent crews logged no such claims, according to records I obtained.
但根据我获得的记录，后来的船员没有记录此类声明。
One man told me that, in response to his plea for protection, an officer on the next boat wrote a note on a piece of paper, but nobody ever followed up.
一名男子告诉我，为了回应他的保护请求，下一艘船上的一名军官在一张纸上写了一张纸条，但没有人跟进。
Another said that an officer told him their claims would be heard later.
另一人说，一名警官告诉他，他们的申诉将在稍后审理。
But there were no more interviews.
但之后就没有再接受采访了。
“We had no opportunity,” a woman in the group says.
“我们没有机会，”该团体中的一位女士说。
When I asked the Coast Guard about this, a spokesperson told me the agency meticulously documents all claims.
当我向海岸警卫队询问此事时，一位发言人告诉我，该机构会仔细记录所有索赔。
“Since we do not have a record of any of those migrants communicating that they feared for their lives if returned to Haiti, I cannot say that they made MOF claims while aboard,” he said.
他说：“由于我们没有任何移民表示担心返回海地后生命安全的记录，因此我不能说他们是在海地期间向财政部提出索赔的。”
Tcherry fell asleep on the larger cutter and woke at around dawn to commotion.
切里在更大的快艇上睡着了，黎明时分在骚动中醒来。
He saw an EMT pressing on the chest of a middle-aged woman who lay several yards away from him.
他看到一名急救人员按在距离他几码远的一名中年妇女的胸部。
She had been moaning in pain the night before.
前一天晚上，她一直在痛苦地呻吟。
The crew member keeping watch had found her dead, her nose and mouth covered in blood.
值班船员发现她已经死亡，鼻子和嘴巴沾满了血。
Another Haitian woman began to sing a hymn as the EMT performing CPR cried.
当进行心肺复苏的急救人员哭泣时，另一名海地妇女开始唱赞美诗。
A small boat took the woman’s body away and then returned for another man who had been complaining of pain and could not urinate.
一艘小船将这名妇女的尸体运走，然后又回来接另一名一直抱怨疼痛且无法排尿的男子。
“I thought they would take us to land after the woman had died,” Tcherry says.
“我以为那个女人死后他们会带我们着陆，”切里说。
“I thought they would let us go.” But that afternoon, he was transferred to yet another cutter that pulled away from Florida and into the high seas.
“我以为他们会放我们走。”但那天下午，他被转移到另一艘远离佛罗里达州进入公海的快艇上。
Tcherry finally understood he was being sent back.
切里终于明白他要被送回来了。
The Coast Guard was first deployed as a maritime border-patrol agency to stop an earlier surge of migration from Haiti.
海岸警卫队最初被部署为海上边境巡逻机构，以阻止早些时候海地的移民潮。
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan made a deal with Jean-Claude Duvalier, the Haitian dictator , that allowed the Coast Guard to stop and board Haitian boats and deliver those detained directly back to Haiti.
1981年，罗纳德·里根总统与海地独裁者让·克洛德·杜瓦利埃达成一项协议，允许海岸警卫队拦截并登上海地船只，并将被拘留者直接送回海地。
They would be processed on Coast Guard cutters, far from lawyers who could review their cases.
他们将在海岸警卫队快艇上接受处理，远离可以审查他们案件的律师。
The order, advocates argued at the time, undermined U.N.
当时的支持者认为，这项命令破坏了联合国的宗旨。
refugee protections and a U.S. refugee-and-asylum law that Congress passed just the year before.
难民保护以及国会前一年通过的美国难民和庇护法。
“This effort to push borders into the world’s oceans was new, and it marked a perverse paradigm shift,” Jeffrey Kahn, a legal scholar at the University of California, Davis, wrote recently.
加州大学戴维斯分校的法律学者杰弗里·卡恩 (Jeffrey Kahn) 最近写道：“这种将边界推向世界海洋的努力是新的，它标志着一种不正当的范式转变。”
A decade after the Reagan agreement, as Haitians again departed en masse following a military coup, the George H.W.
里根协议签署十年后，海地人在军事政变后再次集体离开，乔治·H·W·布什 (George H.W.
Bush administration further buttressed the sea wall.
布什政府进一步加固了海堤。
Bush signed an order that said federal agencies had no obligation to consider asylum claims from Haitians caught in international waters, no matter the evidence of danger or persecution.
布什签署了一项命令，称联邦机构没有义务考虑在国际水域被捕的海地人的庇护申请，无论是否有危险或迫害的证据。
Lawyers and activists protested, calling the maritime regime a wholesale abdication of human rights doctrine.
律师和活动人士提出抗议，称海事制度是对人权原则的全面放弃。
But the Bush order still stands.
但布什的命令仍然有效。
By the mid-1990s, its reach expanded to nearly anyone of any nationality caught in the sea, whether out in international waters or a couple of hundred feet from the beach.
到 20 世纪 90 年代中期，它的覆盖范围几乎扩大到所有在海中捕获的任何国籍的人，无论是在国际水域还是距离海滩几百英尺的地方。
Pushing migrants and refugees away from the land borders to avoid obligations under law has now become common practice.
将移民和难民赶出陆地边界以逃避法律义务现已成为常见做法。
In the United States, consecutive policies under Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden have attempted to cast whole swaths of the land south of the border as a legal no-man’s land like the ocean.
在美国，巴拉克·奥巴马、唐纳德·特朗普和乔·拜登总统连续出台的政策试图将边境以南的大片土地变成像海洋一样的合法无人区。
They have outsourced deterrence, detention and deportation to Mexico and Central America.
他们将威慑、拘留和驱逐工作外包给墨西哥和中美洲。
Trump and Biden have sought to bar people from seeking asylum if they don’t first try to apply for protection in countries they pass through on their way to the United States.
特朗普和拜登试图禁止人们寻求庇护，如果他们不首先尝试在前往美国途中经过的国家申请保护。
Europe, for its part, has pushed people coming by boat through the Mediterranean back to North African shores, where countries have imposed brutal regimes of deterrence .
欧洲则将乘船穿越地中海的人们赶回北非海岸，而那里的国家则实施了残酷的威慑制度。
None of those measures have prevented the latest wave of migration from the Caribbean.
这些措施都没有阻止最新一波来自加勒比海的移民潮。
In January, amid a generational spike in Haitians and Cubans held on their cutters, the Coast Guard acknowledged that crew members were reaching a breaking point.
一月份，随着海地人和古巴人持有快艇的人数激增，海岸警卫队承认船员们已经达到了极限。
“We are in extremis,” a senior official wrote to colleagues in a widely circulated internal email in January.
一月份，一名高级官员在一封广为流传的内部电子邮件中向同事写道：“我们正处于危急关头。”
“I know you and your teams are pushed beyond limits.” The head of the Coast Guard for the eastern half of the United States, Vice Adm.
“我知道你和你的团队已经超出了极限。”美国东半部海岸警卫队负责人，中将。
Kevin Lunday, wrote in February to colleagues that two outside experts had told him their crews were under extreme stress similar to the levels experienced in “sustained combat operations.”
凯文·伦迪 (Kevin Lunday) 在二月份写给同事的信中表示，两名外部专家告诉他，他们的机组人员承受着类似于“持续战斗行动”中所经历的极度压力。
Coast Guard members told me they had become accustomed to retrieving corpses from capsized boats, worn down by water or gnawed on by sharks.
海岸警卫队成员告诉我，他们已经习惯了从倾覆的船上打捞尸体，这些尸体被水磨损或被鲨鱼咬伤。
It was not uncommon to walk down a stairway or into a bunk room and come upon a crew member sobbing.
走下楼梯或走进双层床房间并遇到一名哭泣的船员的情况并不罕见。
Crew members waited months for mental health appointments, and the agency was talking openly about suicide prevention.
船员们等待了几个月才得到心理健康预约，该机构正在公开谈论预防自杀问题。
“I don’t see how the current level of operations is sustainable,” Capt.
“我不知道目前的运营水平如何可持续，”上尉说。
Chris Cederholm, the commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami, wrote to colleagues, “without the breaking of several of our people.” Some were struggling with what one former crew member called a “moral dilemma,” because they had begun to understand that the job required them to inflict suffering on others.
美国海岸警卫队迈阿密区指挥官克里斯·塞德霍姆（Chris Cederholm）写信给同事，“不要让我们的一些人感到崩溃”。有些人正在与一位前船员所说的“道德困境”作斗争，因为他们已经开始明白，这项工作要求他们给他人带来痛苦。
“We hear their stories, people who say they’d rather we shoot them right here than send them back to what they’re running from,” one Coast Guard member says.
“我们听到了他们的故事，人们说他们宁愿我们在这里枪杀他们，也不愿把他们送回他们正在逃离的地方，”一名海岸警卫队成员说。
“And then we send them all back.”
“然后我们就把他们全部送回去。”
Tim James told me he tried to take his mind off the job by lifting weights and frequenting a cigar bar where service members and cops go to talk about “the suck,” but he soon realized he needed more than weights or whiskey to reckon with the mounting stress, even despair.
蒂姆·詹姆斯告诉我，他试图通过举重和经常光顾雪茄吧来转移自己的注意力，军人和警察会在那里谈论“糟糕的事情”，但他很快意识到，他需要的不仅仅是举重或威士忌来应对日益增加的压力，甚至是绝望。
“I go home, and I feel guilty,” he told me, “because I don’t have to worry about somebody kicking in my front door, you know, I don’t have to worry about the military roaming the streets.” He sought mental health support from a new “resiliency support team” the agency created.
“我回到家，我感到内疚，”他告诉我，“因为我不必担心有人踢我的前门，你知道，我不必担心军队在街上游荡。”他向该机构新创建的“弹性支持团队”寻求心理健康支持。
But James had not been able to shake the memories of the children he detained, particularly one 7-year-old Haitian girl with small braids.
但詹姆斯无法摆脱他拘留的孩子们的记忆，尤其是一名留着小辫子的 7 岁海地女孩。
She’d been wearing shorts and a tank top, her feet were bare and she smiled at James whenever their eyes caught.
她穿着短裤和背心，光着脚，每当他们四目相对时，她都会对詹姆斯微笑。
“My mom is dead,” she told James with the help of an older child who spoke a little English.
“我妈妈死了，”她在一个会说一点英语的大孩子的帮助下告诉詹姆斯。
“I want to go to my auntie in Miami.”
“我想去迈阿密看我的阿姨。”
In the girl’s belongings the crew found a piece of paper with a phone number she said was her aunt’s.
在女孩的随身物品中，工作人员发现了一张纸，上面写着她说是她姨妈的电话号码。
After James interviewed her, they sent her unaccompanied-minor questionnaire to the district office in Florida, and they waited for instructions on what to do with her.
詹姆斯与她面谈后，他们将她的无人陪伴未成年人调查问卷发送给佛罗里达州的地区办公室，并等待有关如何处理她的指示。
Out on the deck, James couldn’t help hoping she’d be taken to shore, to her aunt.
在甲板上，詹姆斯情不自禁地希望她能被带到岸上，送到她姨妈那里。
But late in the morning the next day, the crew received a list from an office in Washington, D.C., of the people to be sent back.
但第二天凌晨，工作人员收到了华盛顿特区一个办公室发来的被遣返人员名单。
The girl was on the list.
那个女孩就在名单上。
James cried on the return trip to port.
詹姆斯在返回港口的途中哭了。
One of his own daughters was about the girl’s age.
他自己的一个女儿和那个女孩年龄相仿。
“I can’t imagine sending my 7-year-old little kid across an ocean that is unforgiving,” James told me, nearly in tears.
“我无法想象让我 7 岁的孩子穿越无情的海洋，”詹姆斯几乎泪流满面地告诉我。
“I can’t imagine what my life would be like to have to do that.”
“我无法想象如果我必须这样做的话我的生活会是什么样子。”
That was just weeks before he encountered Tcherry, Claire and Beana.
就在几周前，他遇到了切里、克莱尔和比纳。
So when Peterson admitted the children were alone, the news came as a blow.
因此，当彼得森承认孩子们孤身一人时，这个消息对他来说是一个打击。
“It’s a pretty hard hit when you think the kids have somebody and then it turns out that they really don’t,” James told me.
詹姆斯告诉我：“当你以为孩子们有人陪伴，但事实证明他们真的没有，那真是一个沉重的打击。”
He could see that Tcherry thought he would be making it to shore.
他看得出来，切里认为他会成功上岸。
“To see the hope on his face and then have to kind of turn around and destroy that is tough,” James told me.
“看到他脸上的希望，然后又不得不转身摧毁它，这很难，”詹姆斯告诉我。
He never learns what becomes of the people he transfers off his cutter: that the pregnant woman gave birth in a hospital to a healthy boy and has an asylum case pending; that the body of Guerline Tulus, the woman who died on the cutter of what the medical examiner concluded was an embolism, remains in a Miami morgue, and that authorities have not identified any next of kin.
他从来不知道他从切割机上转移的人后来怎么样了：孕妇在医院生下了一个健康的男孩，并且有一个庇护申请正在审理中；盖尔琳·图卢斯 (Guerline Tulus) 的尸体仍留在迈阿密太平间，当局尚未确认她的任何近亲。
He does not know what happened to the three children after they were sent back, but many months later, he says, he still wonders about them.
他不知道这三个孩子被送回后发生了什么，但几个月后，他说，他仍然对他们感到好奇。
Tcherry followed Claire and Beana up a rickety ramp in the port of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, past a seized blue and yellow cargo ship into the Haitian Coast Guard station.
切里跟着克莱尔和比纳登上海地海地角港口摇摇欲坠的坡道，经过一艘被扣押的蓝黄色货船，进入海地海岸警卫队站。
The ground was littered with plastic U.S. Coast Guard bracelets that previous groups of people had pulled off and thrown to the ground.
地上散落着美国海岸警卫队的塑料手镯，之前的人群把它们扯下来扔到地上。
Officials from the Haitian child-protection authority and the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration watched as Tcherry and the rest of the group disembarked.
海地儿童保护机构和联合国国际移民组织的官员看着切里和其他人下船。
“They looked scared and they said they were hungry,” a veteran official at IBESR, the Haitian child-protection agency, who was working at the port that day told me.
“他们看上去很害怕，还说自己饿了，”当天在港口工作的海地儿童保护机构 IBESR 的一位资深官员告诉我。
“As a Haitian, I feel humiliated,” he says, “but we can’t really do anything about it.
“作为一名海地人，我感到羞辱，”他说，“但我们对此无能为力。
We’ve resigned ourselves.” To him, the people the Americans offloaded in Haiti always looked half dead.
我们已经辞职了。”在他看来，美国人在海地卸下的人总是一副半死不活的样子。
“It seems to me that when those children fall in their hands, they should know how to treat them.
“在我看来，当那些孩子落入他们手中时，他们应该知道如何对待他们。
But that’s not the case.”
但事实并非如此。”
Tcherry’s throat hurt and his legs were weak.
切里的喉咙很痛，双腿也发软。
He had never felt such tiredness.
他从未感到如此疲倦。
He ate as much as he could from the warm plate of food the UN provided.
他尽可能多地吃联合国提供的热盘食物。
Slumped over on a bench, he waited for his turn to use the shower in a white and blue wash shed on the edge of a fenced lot behind the Haitian Coast Guard station.
他瘫倒在长凳上，等待轮到他使用位于海地海岸警卫队站后面围栏场地边缘的一个蓝白相间的盥洗棚里的淋浴。
The officials brought several people to a hospital and got to work figuring out what to do with the unaccompanied children.
官员们将几人带到医院，并开始研究如何处理无人陪伴的儿童。
The U.S. Coast Guard and State Department say that the children they send back are transferred into the hands of local authorities responsible for the care of children.
美国海岸警卫队和国务院表示，他们送回的儿童将被转移到负责照顾儿童的地方当局手中。
“When we have custodial protection of those children, we want to make sure that the necessary steps are taken,” Lt.
“当我们对这些儿童进行监护保护时，我们希望确保采取必要的措施，”中尉说。
Cmdr.
指挥官。
John Beal, a Coast Guard spokesperson, told me, “to ensure that when we repatriate those migrants, they don’t end up in some nefarious actor’s custody or something.” But no U.S. agency would explain the actual precautions the U.S. government takes to keep children from ending up in the wrong hands, beyond initial screenings aboard cutters.
海岸警卫队发言人约翰·比尔告诉我，“以确保当我们遣返这些移民时，他们不会最终被某些邪恶分子拘留或其他什么情况。”但除了在切割机上进行初步筛查外，没有任何美国机构愿意解释美国政府为防止儿童落入坏人之手而采取的实际预防措施。
Last year, the Coast Guard stopped tracking the “reception agency” in each country, because according to the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. government has set up rules establishing which agencies take these children and no longer needs to track them on a case-by-case basis.
去年，海岸警卫队停止了对各国“接待机构”的追踪，因为根据国土安全部的说法，美国政府已经制定了规则，规定哪些机构接收这些儿童，不再需要逐案追踪。
Haitian child-protection officials in Cap-Haïtien say their agency always finds relatives to take children, though sometimes after weeks or months.
海地角的海地儿童保护官员表示，他们的机构总是会找到亲戚来带走孩子，尽管有时需要几周或几个月的时间。
But the official with one of the other agencies involved in the processing of returned and deported Haitians at the Cap-Haïtien port said this claim is simply not true.
但参与海地角港口遣返和驱逐海地人处理的其他机构之一的官员表示，这一说法根本不属实。
The official said that children have departed the port with adults and with older children without any agency confirming they have an actual relationship or connection.
该官员表示，儿童与成人和年龄较大的儿童一起离开港口，但没有任何机构证实他们有实际关系或联系。
“This is a serious concern in terms of trafficking,” the official told me.
“这是人口贩运方面的一个严重问题，”这位官员告诉我。
IBESR said those claims were unfounded.
IBESR 表示这些说法毫无根据。
“According to the procedure, every child who leaves the port is accompanied by someone,” the IBESR official said, adding that when possible, the agency follows up with families to make sure children arrive safely.
IBESR官员表示：“根据程序，每个离开港口的儿童都有专人陪同。”他补充说，如果可能，该机构会跟踪家人，以确保儿童安全抵达。
But the agency acknowledged there are limits to the support it can provide because of a lack of resources.
但该机构承认，由于缺乏资源，它所能提供的支持有限。
Before they left the cutter, Peterson told Tcherry and the sisters that he would take care of them until they could contact their parents, who would figure out where they needed to go.
在她们离开切割机之前，彼得森告诉切里和姐妹们，他会照顾她们，直到她们联系父母，父母会弄清楚她们需要去哪里。
Tcherry agreed.
切里同意了。
Peterson later told me he’d thought carefully about whether he wanted to get involved in the kids’ affairs once they were off the boat.
彼得森后来告诉我，他仔细考虑过孩子们下船后是否愿意参与他们的事务。
He’d talked to other adults onboard, and they all agreed that someone needed to step up, that the Haitian government was surely not to be trusted.
他与船上的其他成年人交谈过，他们都同意需要有人站出来，海地政府肯定不值得信任。
“If I didn’t do it,” Peterson says, “they would remain with the Haitian state, with all the risks that they could’ve faced, including kidnapping.”
“如果我不这样做，”彼得森说，“他们将继续留在海地政府，并面临所有可能面临的风险，包括绑架。”
Peterson told the child-protection agency that he was the children’s guardian.
彼得森告诉儿童保护机构，他是孩子们的监护人。
The officials said they would need to contact the parents to confirm, so Peterson did the only thing he could think to do: He called the man who had been his conduit to the boat out of the Bahamas.
官员们表示，他们需要联系孩子的父母进行确认，因此彼得森做了他唯一能想到的事情：他打电话给那位曾是他将船从巴哈马群岛引出的人。
The man sent him photos of the children’s IDs and put Peterson in touch with Claire and Beana’s mother, Inose Jean, in Michigan.
该男子向他发送了孩子们身份证件的照片，并让彼得森与克莱尔和比纳在密歇根州的母亲伊诺塞·吉恩取得联系。
She screamed and cried with relief upon learning her daughters were alive.
当得知女儿们还活着时，她如释重负地尖叫、哭泣。
Peterson explained that he’d taken care of the girls at sea and he asked her what to do with them.
彼得森解释说，他在海上照顾了这些女孩，并问她该如何处理她们。
She said she would call back.
她说她会回电话。
Two hours later, she instructed Peterson to take the girls to her friend’s house in Cap-Haïtien.
两个小时后，她指示彼得森带女孩们去她位于海地角的朋友家。
But Peterson still had no number for Tcherry’s mother.
但彼得森仍然没有找到切里母亲的电话号码。
So he told the officials that Tcherry was Claire and Beana’s cousin, and that he’d gotten the image of Tcherry’s ID from Inose Jean.
So he told the officials that Tcherry was Claire and Beana’s cousin, and that he’d gotten the image of Tcherry’s ID from Inose Jean.
At dusk, Peterson walked with the three children through the metal gate of the Haitian Coast Guard station, at once incensed and relieved that he’d been allowed to take them.
黄昏时分，彼得森带着三个孩子穿过海地海岸警卫队站的金属门，他既愤怒又松了口气，因为他被允许带他们去了。
“The Haitian authorities didn’t talk to the children’s mothers,” Peterson says.
“The Haitian authorities didn’t talk to the children’s mothers,” Peterson says.
“There was not enough evidence to actually prove I was who I was, or to prove a relationship.” They took a taxi to Jean’s friend’s house, and Claire, who recognized the woman from years earlier, rushed into her arms.
“There was not enough evidence to actually prove I was who I was, or to prove a relationship.” They took a taxi to Jean’s friend’s house, and Claire, who recognized the woman from years earlier, rushed into her arms.
The woman agreed to let Tcherry spend a night there.
这位女士同意让切里在那里过夜。
Peterson went to a cheap hotel with spotty electricity and a dirty pool.
彼得森去了一家廉价旅馆，那里的电力不稳定，游泳池也很脏。
The man in the Bahamas finally sent Peterson Tcherry’s mother’s number.
The man in the Bahamas finally sent Peterson Tcherry’s mother’s number.
“I am the person who stood up to care for Tcherry on the boat,” Peterson told LaFortune.
“我是那个在船上站出来照顾切里的人，”彼得森告诉《财富》杂志。
She collapsed onto the bed in her room, the only piece of furniture in the Toronto apartment she shared with her husband and her daughter.
她倒在自己房间的床上，这是她与丈夫和女儿共用的多伦多公寓中唯一的一件家具。
She had spent the last six days in a terrified daze, calling the people in the Bahamas she’d paid, begging for any news and fighting images in her mind of her son sinking into the sea.
在过去的六天里，她一直处于恐惧的茫然中，打电话给她付钱的巴哈马群岛的人，乞求任何消息，并在她的脑海中挣扎着儿子沉入大海的画面。
The next morning, after Tcherry woke, Peterson called LaFortune again.
第二天早上，切里醒来后，彼得森再次给拉福图恩打电话。
Tcherry looked weak and his voice was frail and hoarse.
Tcherry looked weak and his voice was frail and hoarse.
“When will I be with you, Mommy?” he asked.
“我什么时候才能和你在一起，妈妈？”他问道。
LaFortune did not for a moment consider trying to put Tcherry on another boat.
LaFortune did not for a moment consider trying to put Tcherry on another boat.
She told him she would wait until she got asylum in Canada and send for him legally.
She told him she would wait until she got asylum in Canada and send for him legally.
But Haiti was even more dangerous for Tcherry than when he’d left.
但对于切里来说，海地比他离开时更加危险。
One man who was detained with Tcherry, whom I interviewed in Haiti two weeks after he returned there, said he feared he would be killed if he left Cap-Haïtien for his home in Port-au-Prince.
一名与切里一起被拘留的男子，我在他回到海地两周后采访了他，他说，他担心如果他离开海地角前往太子港的家，他会被杀。
After he ran through the roughly $50 the U.N.
在他用完大约 50 美元后，联合国
agency gave each of the returnees, which he used for a hotel, he did go back and was attacked on the street as he traveled to a hospital, he said, to get medicine for his daughter.
他说，该机构给了每名返回者，他将其用作酒店，但他确实回去了，并在前往医院为女儿取药时在街上遭到袭击。
He sent me photographs of gashes on his body.
他给我发了他身上伤口的照片。
A second man sent me photos of a deep head wound that he suffered during an attack by the very armed men he had said he was running from.
第二个人给我发了照片，照片中他头部受了很深的伤，是在遭到武装人员袭击时受伤的，他声称自己是在躲避这些武装人员。
Another woman from the boat who told me she fled because she was raped says she is now “in hiding” in Port-au-Prince, living with relatives and her daughter, whom she does not allow to leave the house.
船上的另一名妇女告诉我，她因为被强奸而逃离，她说她现在“躲藏”在太子港，与亲戚和女儿住在一起，她不允许女儿离开家。
Others on the boat have been luckier.
船上的其他人则比较幸运。
In late 2022, the Department of Homeland Security started an unusually broad new legal-immigration program that now allows Haitians and Cubans, along with Venezuelans and Nicaraguans, to apply for two-year entry permits on humanitarian grounds from their countries, rather than traveling by land or sea first.
2022 年末，国土安全部启动了一项异常广泛的新合法移民计划，现在允许海地人和古巴人以及委内瑞拉人和尼加拉瓜人以人道主义理由从本国申请两年入境许可证，而不是首先通过陆路或海上旅行。
The Department of Homeland Security says that since the program began, it has processed 30,000 people a month.
美国国土安全部表示，自该计划启动以来，每月已处理 30,000 人。
More than 107,000 Haitians and 57,000 Cubans have been approved for entry, including a man who was detained with Tcherry.
More than 107,000 Haitians and 57,000 Cubans have been approved for entry, including a man who was detained with Tcherry.
On Oct.
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18, he stepped off a plane in Fort Lauderdale with a legal entry permit.
18, he stepped off a plane in Fort Lauderdale with a legal entry permit.
He made it just under the wire, given the timing of his interdiction in February.
考虑到他在二月份被停职的时间，他就在电线下面。
In late April, DHS added a caveat to the new program : Anyone stopped at sea from then on would be ineligible to apply to the parole program.
4月下旬，国土安全部在新计划中添加了一个警告：从那时起，任何在海上停留的人都没有资格申请假释计划。
The Coast Guard says the new program and the accompanying restriction have caused the numbers of Cubans and Haitians departing on boats to fall back down to their pre-2021 level.
海岸警卫队表示，新计划和随之而来的限制已导致乘船出境的古巴人和海地人的数量回落至 2021 年之前的水平。
“People have a safe and lawful alternative,” Beal, the Coast Guard’s spokesperson in Florida, told me, “so they don’t feel their only option is to take to the sea.”
“人们有一个安全合法的选择，”佛罗里达州海岸警卫队发言人比尔告诉我，“所以他们不觉得他们唯一的选择就是出海。”
Tcherry rode a bus with Peterson over the mountains to Saint-Marc.
切里和彼得森一起乘坐公共汽车翻山越岭前往圣马克。
In the stucco house on a quiet street where Peterson lived with his fiancée and her parents, Tcherry struggled to stop thinking about his experience at sea.
彼得森与未婚妻及其父母住在一条安静街道上的灰泥房子里，切里努力不去想他在海上的经历。
“When I sleep, when I sit down, I want to cry,” Tcherry told me days after his arrival there.
“When I sleep, when I sit down, I want to cry,” Tcherry told me days after his arrival there.
“They had us for five days.
“他们关押了我们五天。
We couldn’t eat well, couldn’t sleep well.
我们吃不好，睡不好。
Couldn’t brush our teeth.” He thought of his body soaked from the sea spray, of the woman who died.
无法刷牙。” He thought of his body soaked from the sea spray, of the woman who died.
Although Peterson assured him it was not true, Tcherry kept wondering if the officers had just thrown her body into the sea.
尽管彼得森向他保证这不是真的，但切里一直怀疑警察是否刚刚将她的尸体扔进海里。
“He is having nightmares about the boats,” Peterson told me a week after their arrival, “reliving the same moment again and again, and he starts crying.”
“他做了关于船的噩梦，”他们到达一周后彼得森告诉我，“一次又一次地重温同样的时刻，然后他开始哭泣。”
LaFortune told Tcherry that she was arranging for him to travel to his grandmother in another part of the country.
LaFortune told Tcherry that she was arranging for him to travel to his grandmother in another part of the country.
But it soon became clear to her that the roads were too dangerous, spotted with gang and vigilante checkpoints guarded often by men carrying AK-47s.
但她很快就意识到，道路太危险了，经常有携带 AK-47 步枪的男子把守着帮派和治安维持者的检查站。
Peterson told LaFortune that Tcherry could stay with him as long as she needed him to.
Peterson told LaFortune that Tcherry could stay with him as long as she needed him to.
But as the weeks turned to months, Tcherry felt that Peterson began to change.
But as the weeks turned to months, Tcherry felt that Peterson began to change.
He said Peterson needed money, and he was asking Tcherry’s mother to send more and more.
他说彼得森需要钱，他要求切里的母亲寄来越来越多的钱。
Peterson was frequently out of the house, working odd jobs, and often could not answer LaFortune’s calls.
彼得森经常出门在外，打零工，而且经常无法接听拉福图恩的电话。
She grew worried.
她开始担心起来。
When she did talk to Tcherry, he was as quiet as he was in the smuggler’s house in the Bahamas.
When she did talk to Tcherry, he was as quiet as he was in the smuggler’s house in the Bahamas.
Two months passed.
两个月过去了。
LaFortune’s asylum case was denied, and she and her husband appealed.
拉福图恩的庇护申请被驳回，她和她的丈夫提出上诉。
Four more months passed.
又四个月过去了。
LaFortune’s husband heard news that gangs were closing in on Saint-Marc.
拉福图恩的丈夫听到黑帮逼近圣马克的消息。
LaFortune decided that they must move Tcherry, that it was time to risk the journey on the roads.
拉福图恩决定他们必须搬走切里，是时候冒险上路了。
In September, she sent an old family friend to collect him.
九月，她派了一位老朋友来接他。
They rode on a bus through a checkpoint where the driver paid a fee to a masked man.
他们乘坐一辆公共汽车通过一个检查站，司机向一名蒙面男子支付了费用。
“I saw a man holding his gun,” Tcherry says.
“我看到一个人拿着枪，”切里说。
The man made a sign that they could pass.
那人做了个可以过去的手势。
Tcherry arrived at a busy bus station in Port-au-Prince and looked for his grandmother.
切里抵达太子港一个繁忙的公交车站，寻找他的祖母。
He saw her in a crowd and remembered her face, her high forehead and wide smile.
他在人群中看到了她，记得她的脸、高高的额头和灿烂的笑容。
“That is my grandma,” he said, again and again.
“那是我的奶奶，”他一遍又一遍地说。
His mutters turned to song.
他的低语变成了歌声。
“That is my grandmother, tololo, tololo, that is my grandmother.” He sank into her arms.
“那是我的祖母，托洛洛，托洛洛，那是我的祖母。”他陷进了她的怀里。
He held her hand as they boarded another bus and passed through another checkpoint, back to where he began.
当他们登上另一辆公共汽车并通过另一个检查站时，他握着她的手，回到他开始的地方。
Jason Kao contributed data reporting.
Jason Kao 贡献了数据报告。
Oldjy François contributed research.
Oldjy François 贡献了研究成果。
Alendy Almonor, Myriam Narcisse and Steven Werlin provided translation and interpretation.
Alendy Almonor、Myriam Narcisse 和 Steven Werlin 提供笔译和口译服务。
During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny.
在唐纳德·特朗普的第二任总统任期内，ProPublica 将重点关注最需要审查的领域。
Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch with them securely.
以下是我们的记者将关注的一些问题，以及如何安全地与他们取得联系。
Learn more about our reporting team.
详细了解我们的报告团队。
We will continue to share our areas of interest as the news develops.
随着新闻的发展，我们将继续分享我们感兴趣的领域。
I cover health and the environment and the agencies that govern them, including the Environmental Protection Agency.
我报道健康和环境以及管理它们的机构，包括环境保护局。
I cover justice and the rule of law, including the Justice Department, U.S. attorneys and the courts.
我报道司法和法治，包括司法部、美国检察官和法院。
I report on immigration and labor, and I am based in Chicago.
我负责报道移民和劳工问题，我的工作地点是芝加哥。
I cover housing and transportation, including the companies working in those fields and the regulators overseeing them.
我报道住房和交通，包括在这些领域工作的公司和监管它们的监管机构。
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The president has reportedly urged Congress to pass $175 billion for border security.
据报道，总统敦促国会通过 1750 亿美元用于边境安全。
But residents of Del Rio, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona, say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met.
但得克萨斯州德尔里奥和亚利桑那州道格拉斯的居民表示，他们的基本需求——比如安全饮用水和医院就诊——没有得到满足。
by Anjeanette Damon , ProPublica, and Perla Trevizo , ProPublica and The Texas Tribune , and photography by Cengiz Yar , ProPublica, April 16, 2025, 5 a.m.
作者：Anjeanette Damon、ProPublica 和 Perla Trevizo、ProPublica 和《德克萨斯论坛报》，摄影：Cengiz Yar、ProPublica，2025 年 4 月 16 日上午 5 点
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After the Trump administration cut its funding, a Nashville nonprofit is fighting to provide refugees with the support it promised, despite contending with depleted resources, layoffs and disillusionment.
在特朗普政府削减资金后，纳什维尔的一家非营利组织正在努力为难民提供其承诺的支持，尽管面临着资源枯竭、裁员和幻灭的困境。
Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions.
随着越来越多的报道称美国公民陷入了特朗普政府的移民拉网，十几名国会议员已写信给政府提出尖锐的问题。
None has received a reply.
没有人收到回复。
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges.
“太可怕了，太令人心碎了”：奥兹图尔克的密友近距离观察了数百名签证被吊销的外国学生中的一名学生，其中有数十例是在没有受到刑事指控的情况下被拘留的。
The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border.
私人控股公司 Deployed Resources 通过运营帐篷拘留设施，在边境拘留进入美国的移民，赚取了数十亿美元的收入。
Now it is cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold immigrants before deportation.
现在，它再次利用特朗普在驱逐出境前扣押移民的计划获利。
by Jeff Ernsthausen , Mica Rosenberg and Avi Asher-Schapiro , April 11, 2025, 5 a.m.
作者：Jeff Ernsthausen、Mica Rosenberg 和 Avi Asher-Schapiro，2025 年 4 月 11 日凌晨 5 点
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The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say.
分析人士称，随着特朗普政府将国土安全部变成大规模驱逐机器，这个负责保护移民和美国公民公民权利的 150 人办公室的关闭，使国土安全部失去了内部护栏。
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David McSwane and Hannah Allam , April 8, 2025, 1:25 p.m.
David McSwane 和 Hannah Allam，2025 年 4 月 8 日下午 1:25
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FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs.
FDA 检查人员在印度一家生产召回药品的 Glenmark 工厂发现了严重问题。
Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.
该工厂生产的另一种药物与美国患者的死亡有关。
The president has reportedly urged Congress to pass $175 billion for border security.
据报道，总统敦促国会通过 1750 亿美元用于边境安全。
But residents of Del Rio, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona, say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met.
但得克萨斯州德尔里奥和亚利桑那州道格拉斯的居民表示，他们的基本需求——比如安全饮用水和医院就诊——没有得到满足。
by Anjeanette Damon , ProPublica, and Perla Trevizo , ProPublica and The Texas Tribune , and photography by Cengiz Yar , ProPublica, April 16, 2025, 5 a.m.
作者：Anjeanette Damon、ProPublica 和 Perla Trevizo、ProPublica 和《德克萨斯论坛报》，摄影：Cengiz Yar、ProPublica，2025 年 4 月 16 日凌晨 5 点
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Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills.
蓝十字会授权对患有癌症的女性进行乳房切除术和乳房重建，但拒绝支付全额医生费用。
A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
陪审团称其为欺诈行为，并判给该做法 4.21 亿美元。
Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions.
随着越来越多的报道称美国公民陷入了特朗普政府的移民拉网，十几名国会议员已写信给政府提出尖锐的问题。
None has received a reply.
没有人收到回复。
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges.
“太可怕了，太令人心碎了”：奥兹图尔克的密友近距离观察了数百名签证被吊销的外国学生中的一名学生，其中有数十例是在没有受到刑事指控的情况下被拘留的。
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