DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
国土安全部官员辞职，称政府发动“针对移民的战争”
The Department of Homeland Security’s top numbers-cruncher has resigned, citing the Trump administration’s “war on immigrants” on his way out. 国土安全部（DHS）的首席数据分析官已辞职，并在离职时指责特朗普政府发动了“针对移民的战争”。
DHS has been a hub of controversy during the second Trump term: the ICE raids in American cities, the wild spending, the growing archipelago of detention centers, the attempts to hide data about it all. But vanishingly few officials have left the department and been openly critical of the direction it has taken. Marc Rosenblum, who served as executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics and a deputy assistant secretary at the department, is one of the first. 在特朗普的第二个任期内，国土安全部一直处于争议中心：美国城市中的移民及海关执法局（ICE）突袭行动、疯狂的支出、不断扩张的拘留中心网络，以及试图掩盖相关数据的行为。然而，极少有官员在离职后公开批评该部门的发展方向。曾担任国土安全统计办公室执行主任及该部门副助理部长的马克·罗森布鲁姆（Marc Rosenblum）是首批公开批评的官员之一。
“I’m thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration,” Rosenblum said in a LinkedIn post over the weekend. “Between the war on immigrants, the war on feds, and the war on facts (not to mention the crazy war in Iran and the brazen corruption), I just need a change.” “我很高兴能结束与现任政府的关系，”罗森布鲁姆在周末的一篇领英（LinkedIn）帖子中写道。“在针对移民的战争、针对联邦雇员的战争以及针对事实的战争之间（更不用说伊朗那场疯狂的战争和明目张胆的腐败），我只是需要做出改变。”
Rosenblum also served in the first Trump and Biden administrations, initially running DHS’s office of immigration statistics, and then overseeing stats for the entire department—collating numbers on everything from cybersecurity intrusions to trafficking investigations to deportations. His office peaked at 45 people in the Biden years, and started to shrink since. 罗森布鲁姆也曾在特朗普第一任期和拜登政府任职，最初负责国土安全部的移民统计办公室，随后负责整个部门的统计工作——整理从网络安全入侵到人口贩运调查，再到驱逐出境等各方面的数据。他的办公室在拜登执政期间规模达到顶峰，拥有45名员工，此后开始缩减。
“He had one of the most interesting charges at DHS,” a former colleague tells WIRED of Rosenblum. “There’s 22 component agencies, and so there are 22 different ways of aggregating data that were just completely siloed.” “他在国土安全部承担着最有趣的任务之一，”一位前同事在谈到罗森布鲁姆时告诉《连线》（WIRED）。“该部门下设22个组成机构，因此有22种完全孤立的数据汇总方式。”
“So Marc’s charge was to consolidate all the data and put it in a way that internally, I at headquarters could know exactly how many Coast Guard interdictions happened off the Coast Guard station in Miami, and how many of those were Cuban, Haitian, Nicaragua, Venezuelan. And then kind of conceptualize that with the same population of people that were crossing the Southwest border,” the former colleague adds. “所以马克的任务是整合所有数据，并以一种方式呈现，让我能在总部内部准确知道迈阿密海岸警卫队站外发生了多少次拦截行动，其中有多少是古巴人、海地人、尼加拉瓜人或委内瑞拉人。然后将这些数据与穿越西南边境的同一人群进行概念化对比，”这位前同事补充道。
A domestic security agency like DHS is never going to be a model of transparency. But Rosenblum, a long-time immigration policy wonk and an immigration specialist for the Congressional Research Service, promised as much openness as possible when he took on his department-wide role in 2023. “We’ll begin releasing data more quickly, with greater granularity and covering a broader scope of DHS activities,” he told Federal News Network that November. 像国土安全部这样的国内安全机构永远不会成为透明度的典范。但罗森布鲁姆作为一名资深的移民政策专家和国会研究处的移民专家，在2023年担任全部门职务时，曾承诺尽可能保持公开。“我们将开始更快速地发布数据，提高颗粒度，并涵盖更广泛的国土安全部活动，”他在当年11月告诉联邦新闻网（Federal News Network）。
That data itself became controversial in Trump 2.0. The Office of Homeland Security Statistics’ website on ICE detentions, Border Patrol encounters, and DHS repatriations hasn’t been updated since February 11, 2025, just weeks into the second Trump term. What information has been pried from DHS since then, often through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, has been at times spotty and unreliable, analysts say. 这些数据本身在特朗普的第二个任期内引发了争议。国土安全统计办公室关于ICE拘留、边境巡逻队拦截以及国土安全部遣返工作的网站自2025年2月11日（特朗普第二个任期开始仅几周后）以来就再未更新。分析人士称，此后通过《信息自由法》诉讼从国土安全部获取的信息有时零碎且不可靠。
“There’s no accountability, no way to assess, no public understanding about what’s really going on that is not curated by a press release from the agency,” David Bier, the Cato Institute’s director of immigration studies, told NOTUS in November. “没有问责制，没有评估途径，公众也无法了解除机构新闻稿之外的真实情况，”卡托研究所（Cato Institute）移民研究主任大卫·比尔（David Bier）在11月告诉NOTUS。
Asked about Rosenblum’s resignation and his “war on immigrants” comment on LinkedIn, a DHS spokesperson says in a statement, “People are always welcome to their opinion—that doesn’t make it right or factual. We will not comment on personal decisions.” 当被问及罗森布鲁姆的辞职及其在领英上关于“针对移民的战争”的评论时，国土安全部发言人在一份声明中表示：“人们总是可以发表自己的观点——但这并不意味着它是正确或符合事实的。我们不会对个人决定发表评论。”
Rosenblum did not respond to a request for comment, but he did allude to the difficulty of publishing quality data under this administration in his LinkedIn post. “My OHSS co-workers are outstanding career federal civil servants. They are smart, mission-focused experts who produce high quality results in a challenging and often hostile work environment,” he wrote. 罗森布鲁姆没有回应置评请求，但他在领英帖子中暗示了在本届政府下发布高质量数据的困难。“我的OHSS同事是杰出的职业联邦公务员。他们是聪明、专注于使命的专家，在充满挑战且往往充满敌意的工作环境中产出了高质量的成果，”他写道。
“Marc was exactly what every American should want in a career public servant,” Luis Miranda, a top DHS spokesman during the Biden years, tells WIRED. “The Trump administration has governed by silencing or ignoring facts and information they believe doesn’t line up with their extreme rhetoric, and that has damaging implications, so it’s no surprise career officials whose job is transparency are unable to do those jobs.” “马克正是每一位美国人所期望的职业公职人员的样子，”拜登执政期间的国土安全部高级发言人路易斯·米兰达（Luis Miranda）告诉《连线》。“特朗普政府的治理方式是压制或无视那些他们认为与极端言论不符的事实和信息，这会产生破坏性影响，因此，那些以透明度为职责的职业官员无法履行职责也就不足为奇了。”
Rosenblum is one of a number of DHS officials who have left since Trump’s second inauguration, including acting ICE director Todd Lyons and multiple acting chiefs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But most of those people haven’t been publicly critical of the administration. Same goes for Kristi Noem—Trump’s first DHS chief, who left under a cloud of scandal—and her controversial top aide, Corey Lewandowski. ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank was the rare exception to speak out, testifying before Congress about the “broken” training program for new recruits. 罗森布鲁姆是特朗普第二次就职以来离职的多名国土安全部官员之一，其中包括代理ICE局长托德·里昂（Todd Lyons）和联邦紧急事务管理局的多名代理负责人。但这些人中的大多数并未公开批评政府。克里斯蒂·诺姆（Kristi Noem）——特朗普的第一任国土安全部长，在丑闻阴影下离职——以及她备受争议的高级助手科里·莱万多夫斯基（Corey Lewandowski）也是如此。ICE律师瑞安·施万克（Ryan Schwank）是少数公开表态的例外，他在国会作证时称新兵培训计划“已崩溃”。
Schwank is now joined by Rosenblum, who, before he joined the first Trump administration, warned that a policy of mass deportation could prove to be risky, expensive, and cruel. The more people you try to remove, he warned a Senate committee in 2015, the more counterproductive the attempts are likely to be. “The deportation dilemma is that more humane enforcement is fundamentally in tension with stricter immigration control,” he said in written testimony. “A robust enforcement system inevitably inflicts damage on established families and communities.” 现在，罗森布鲁姆加入了施万克的行列。在加入特朗普第一届政府之前，罗森布鲁姆曾警告说，大规模驱逐出境的政策可能被证明是危险、昂贵且残酷的。他在2015年向参议院委员会警告称，试图驱逐的人数越多，这些尝试就越可能适得其反。“驱逐困境在于，更人道的执法与更严格的移民控制从根本上是矛盾的，”他在书面证词中写道。“一个强有力的执法系统不可避免地会对已定居的家庭和社区造成损害。”
Rosenblum also warned that such efforts could kneecap the American economy. 罗森布鲁姆还警告说，此类努力可能会重创美国经济。
“Significant enforcement efforts can spread fear throughout immigrant communities, even among families and children that are not directly affected by detention or deportation. In addition, two-thirds of unauthorized immigrants are employed. Deportations disrupt US labor markets and reduce job creation by US firms. By one estimate, deporting all 11 million unauthorized immigrants would cut the US workforce by 6.4 percent and reduce US real GDP by $1.6 trillion (5.7 percent),” he added. “大规模的执法行动会在移民社区中散布恐惧，即使是在那些未直接受到拘留或驱逐影响的家庭和儿童中也是如此。此外，三分之二的非法移民是有工作的。驱逐出境会扰乱美国劳动力市场，并减少美国企业的就业创造。据一项估计，驱逐所有1100万非法移民将使美国劳动力减少6.4%，并使美国实际GDP减少1.6万亿美元（5.7%），”他补充道。
This, of course, is a cornerstone of the platform that Donald Trump ran on in 2024. 当然，这正是唐纳德·特朗普在2024年竞选纲领的基石。
Updated 7/27/2026 at 5:30pm EDT: Added comment from DHS. 更新于2026年7月27日下午5:30（东部夏令时间）：增加了国土安全部的评论。