班农因参与计划美国国会骚乱被捕
文章来源: CBS
10/20/2021
美国哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS News）当地时间 10 月 19 日报道，调查 1 月 6 日美国国会大厦暴乱事件的众议院特别委员会 19 日当天一致投票赞成，以刑事藐视法庭罪逮捕时任美国总统特朗普的高级战略顾问史蒂夫 · 班农（Steve Bannon），因为其违抗传票拒绝出庭作证。
班农上周被命令出席委员会听证会，但他的律师表示，按照时任美国总统特朗普法律团队的指示，班农拒绝提供出庭作证或提供相关证据文件。
众议院特别委员会当地时间 18 日晚上建议以刑事藐视法庭罪逮捕他，并于 19 日全员投票赞成的结果决定起诉班农。
House January 6 committee unanimously votes to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt
BY CAROLINE LINTON, KATHRYN WATSON
10/20/2021
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously Tuesday night to hold former President Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for defying a subpoena to appear and produce records.
“We believe Mr. Bannon has information relevant to our probe, and we’ll use the tools at our disposal to get that information,” Chairman Bennie Thompson said ahead of the vote. “I expect that the House will quickly adopt this referral to the Justice Department and that the U.S. Attorney will do his duty and prosecute Mr. Bannon for criminal contempt of Congress.”
Oct 20, 2021
A U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has voted unanimously to hold former White House aide Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress after the longtime ally of former U.S. president Donald Trump defied a subpoena for documents and testimony.
Bannon was ordered to appear before the committee last week, but his attorney said he was following the direction of the former president’s legal team to not provide documents or testify. The committee recommended Monday night that he be held in criminal contempt. All Democrats on the committee and the two Republicans on the committee, Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, voted in favor of holding Bannon in criminal contempt.
Thompson added that “there isn’t a different set of rules for Mr. Bannon. He knows this. He knows there are consequences for outright defiance. And he’s chosen the path toward criminal contempt by taking this position.”
Cheney also spoke before the vote, arguing that the executive privilege arguments raised by former President Trump and Bannon “appear to reveal one thing…they suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6. And we will get to the bottom of that.”
She also at one point directly addressed her Republican colleagues.
“Almost all of you know in your hearts that what happened on January 6 was profoundly wrong,” Cheney said. “You know that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud sufficient to overturn the election; you know that the Dominion voting machines were not corrupted by a foreign power. You know those claims are false.”
She continued, “Yet President Trump repeats them almost daily. He has now urged Republicans not to vote in the 2022 and 2024 elections. This is a prescription for national self-destruction.”
The measure now goes to the Democrat-controlled House. Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that the full House would take it up for a vote on Thursday. If a majority of the House finds him criminal contempt, then the House will refer the case to the Justice Department for prosecution.
In a letter obtained by CBS News, Bannon’s attorney said last week that he is not acting in “defiance” of the subpoena, and pointed to instructions from Mr. Trump’s attorney. “President Trump’s counsel stated that they were invoking executive and other privileges and therefore directed us not to produce documents or give testimony that might reveal information President Trump’s counsel seeks to legally protect,” his lawyer said.
President Biden last week rejected Mr. Trump’s assertion of executive privilege for the documents requested by the committee, and the White House said it would give the panel access to federal records connected to the Trump White House and the January 6 insurrection.
On Monday, Mr. Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit in federal court against the committee, committee chair Bennie Thompson, the National Archives and David Ferriero, the director of the National Archives, in an effort to block the release of documents related to his actions on January 6.
Mr. Trump spoke at Stop the Steal rally on January 6 ahead of Congress’ convening to count the electoral votes, a largely ceremonial final step affirming Mr. Biden’s victory. Mr. Trump encouraged his supporters to “walk over” to the Capitol to protest the results of the election.
Chaos erupted at the Capitol a few hours later as thousands of Mr. Trump’s supporters descended on the Capitol, breaking windows and ransacking the building. Lawmakers, including former Vice President Mike Pence, fled the floor amid the riot, which led to the deaths of five people and the arrests of hundreds more. Mr. Trump was impeached by the House one week later for inciting the riot but was later acquitted by the Senate.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the House select committee earlier this year to “establish the truth” of what happened that day. Despite the initial attempts to make it a bipartisan committee, Kinzinger and Cheney, two of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump, are the only two Republicans on the nine-person committee.
In addition to Bannon, the committee has subpoenaed the organizers of the Stop the Steal rally, as well as former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, communications director Dan Scavino and Pentagon chief of staff Kashyap Patel.
Zak Hudak contributed reporting.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the Jan. 6 committee, presented evidence on Tuesday that Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, had “advanced knowledge” of the day’s events.
“All hell is going to break loose tomorrow,” she read, quoting Bannon’s words one day ahead of the insurrection that saw pro-Trump rioters storming the Capitol in an effort to stop the presidential electoral vote count.
Cheney’s presented those statements during a meeting on Tuesday evening where members of the committee panel voted to charge Bannon with criminal contempt.
Last week, Bannon defied a request from a committee subpoena demanding he hand over documents and provide testimony on his communications with Trump days before the rioters stormed the Capitol.
Trump also filed a lawsuit last week to block the release of documents requested by the committee. Cheney asserted that, “Mr. Bannon’s and Mr. Trump’s privilege arguments do appear to reveal one thing, however: They suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th. And we will get to the bottom of that.”
The committee voted unanimously to charge Bannon with criminal contempt in the brief Oct. 19 meeting.
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出现史无前例非法移民潮 特朗普：美国正迅速成为“粪坑”
文 / 林煇智
9/20/2021
（早报讯）美国南部边境出现“史无前例”非法移民潮，成千上万名来自海地的非法移民涉水穿过美国与墨西哥边境河流，涌入美国，非法移民人数创20年新高。美国前总统特朗普以“粪坑”（cesspool）一词，形容如今面对非法越境人潮的美国。
美媒报道，数千名海地人上周六（9月18日）突然“戏剧性地”迅速涉水过河来到美国，并“驻扎”在得克萨斯州德尔里奥（Del Rio）一座大桥下，有的甚至还搭起了临时营地。
美国前总统特朗普周日（19日）在个人网站上对此事发表了一份声明。声明中称，“美国历史上人数最多的‘数百万’非法入境者正涌入美国，他们完全不受约束和限制，可以随心所欲地做事，想去哪儿就去哪儿。”
Sep 19, 2021
他接着说，“我们的国家正在迅速成为人类的粪坑。”特朗普说，“杀人犯、毒贩等各种各样的罪犯是这一大规模移民的主要组成部分。”
《纽约邮报》报道，自上周以来，有超过1万4000海地非法越境者在得州德尔里奥的一座桥下建起临时营地，导致美国政府关闭了一个入境点，并部署更多边境巡逻人员。
美国国土安全部18日也发声明称，将在20日早晨以前向当地增派400名执法人员，协助维持秩序，并将在三天之内安排更多航班，加紧把非法移民遣送回海地等国。
Sep 18, 2021
美国边境巡逻队负责人奥尔蒂斯周一（20日）在德尔里奥市举行的新闻发布会上表示，过去两天，美方已将3300名得州边境附近的非法越境者转移。在当地时间19日起飞的三架载满载越境者的飞机，也会全部飞往海地。
许多非法进入美国的海地人称，受到海地地震、冠病疫情和当地政局动荡等影响，他们只能背井离乡谋生。报道称，他们在来到北美之前曾去过巴西、智利等南美国家，但在当地无法获得体面的工作与合法身份，并还曾受到种族歧视。
美国国土安全部长马约卡斯表示，拜登政府在美国南部边境面临“严重挑战”。他说，美国遭遇了“前所未有”的非法越境移民数量。
美墨边境移民潮涌 得州关闭六处口岸
文 / 张佳莹
9/17/2021
（早报讯）美国得克萨斯州州长阿伯特周四（16日）下令关闭该州位于美国和墨西哥边境的六处入境口岸，以应对边境非法移民危机。
阿伯特发表声明说，他已指示州政府和州国民警卫队增加执法人员和巡逻车辆，并关闭六处入境口岸，以阻止非法移民继续越境进入得州。这位共和党州长称，因非法移民过多，美国边境执法人员已“被混乱淹没”。他同时严厉抨击拜登政府无视边境安全。
综合美国媒体报道，在得州西南小城德尔里奥，当局划出一座名叫“德尔里奥国际桥”的部分桥下区域作为等待申请避难的非法移民临时营地。一周前，这座营地里只有数百名非法移民，但到16日，已激增至9000人左右，多数来自海地。市政官员预期未来数日内，还可能有大量非法移民越过美墨边境深仅及膝的河水涌向这座小城，美国边境执法部门表示将增派更多人手处理大量非法移民聚集问题。
美媒援引德尔里奥市政官员的话说，这处桥下临时营地几乎没有干净的水和食物，只有寥寥几个移动厕所，卫生条件恶劣。数千焦虑而紧张的非法移民拥挤在一起，天气炎热，环境肮脏，其状况已经构成人道主义危机。
今年以来，美国和墨西哥边境的非法移民潮持续不断，对拜登政府构成严峻挑战。据美媒报道，今年以来美墨边境被捕非法移民人数达到20多年来最高水平，仅8月就有超过20.8万人次的非法移民被捕，其中许多人是被遣返后再次越境。
