The FBI reportedly won’t investigate ICE anymore

据报道，联邦调查局（FBI）将不再调查美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）

The change would essentially leave ICE to investigate itself and leave little chance of agents being held accountable. 这一变动实质上将使 ICE 陷入“自我调查”的境地，并使得涉事特工被追究责任的可能性微乎其微。

According to the New York Times, federal agents have been told that the FBI will no longer be investigating confrontations involving ICE agents. The DHS and DOJ denied the change in policy to The Times. The reported change in guidance follows renewed scrutiny of violence by ICE agents who have killed two people in the last two weeks. The shootings in Maine and Texas were just the latest civilian deaths at the hands of ICE agents, who have attempted to intimidate witnesses following its recent spate of high-profile killings. 据《纽约时报》报道，联邦特工已被告知，FBI 将不再调查涉及 ICE 特工的冲突事件。美国国土安全部（DHS）和司法部（DOJ）向《纽约时报》否认了这一政策变动。此次报道的指导方针变更，正值外界对 ICE 特工暴力行为的审查力度加大之际，这些特工在过去两周内已造成两人死亡。缅因州和得克萨斯州的枪击事件只是 ICE 特工造成平民死亡的最新案例；在近期一系列备受关注的杀戮事件后，这些特工还试图恐吓证人。

The new guidance would end FBI investigations of assaults against DHS agents. The government has aggressively pursued cases against protesters and others who have had even fleeting and unintentional physical contact with agents. But those felony assault cases routinely fall apart, with nearly half of them ending with an acquittal, the charges being thrown out, or withdrawn, according to a Times analysis. 新的指导方针将终止 FBI 对袭击 DHS 特工案件的调查。此前，政府一直积极起诉那些与特工发生过哪怕是短暂且无意身体接触的抗议者及其他人。但据《纽约时报》分析，这些重罪袭击案件往往以失败告终，近一半的案件最终以无罪释放、撤销指控或撤诉而告终。

While the FBI investigations are ostensibly to help the government make a case against protesters and others, they often provide evidence against the officers that could be used in future trials against them. 虽然 FBI 的调查表面上是为了帮助政府起诉抗议者等人，但这些调查往往也会提供针对特工本人的证据，这些证据可能在未来的审判中被用于指控他们。

According to The Times: Under the change, responsibility for investigating cases involving federal immigration officers would likely fall to Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE, effectively leaving the agency to investigate itself… Homeland Security Investigations does not have jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations, so putting the change into practice would make it far less likely that shootings of unarmed people by ICE agents would be investigated to determine if the agents broke federal law. 据《纽约时报》报道：根据这一变动，调查涉及联邦移民官员案件的责任很可能将落到国土安全调查局（HSI）身上，而该机构隶属于 ICE，这实际上等同于让该机构进行自我调查……国土安全调查局无权调查侵犯公民权利的行为，因此将这一变动付诸实践，将使得 ICE 特工枪杀手无寸铁平民的事件极难得到调查，从而无法确定这些特工是否违反了联邦法律。