国土安全部就硫磺岛纪念碑遇袭发表声明：男子用大锤砸断雕像头部当场被捕
华盛顿——美国国土安全部10月23日就弗吉尼亚州 Quantico 海军陆战队基地外的硫磺岛纪念碑遇袭一事发表声明：10月21日晚10时13分左右，一名男子用大锤砸断纪念碑上一尊雕像的头部，Prince William County 警方赶到时其仍在继续破坏，当场将其逮捕。国土安全部公布了纪念碑受损情况及被砸断雕像头部的照片。
被捕男子为27岁的墨西哥籍公民 Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano。县警方以重罪毁坏财物、非法侵入并意图毁坏财物、重罪损害纪念碑等罪名将其拘捕。据国土安全部，Soriano 曾于2022年在 Stafford County 因非法侵入被捕。
国土安全部在声明中说，Soriano 于1999年非法进入美国，2014年10月在奥巴马政府时期获得「暂缓遣返」（DACA）资格，其后曾获续期，该资格目前已经过期。
国土安全部长 Markwayne Mullin 在声明中说：「这个充满仇恨的非法移民袭击了纪念我们英勇海军陆战队员的纪念碑，用大锤砸断了其中一尊雕像的头。他曾由奥巴马政府授予 DACA。像这样明显仇恨美国的罪犯，不应该待在我们的国家。我们绝不允许我国伟大的历史被对我们的国家和价值观毫无尊重的非法移民拆毁。这名罪犯很快将面临正义的审判。」
遇袭的纪念碑位于 Quantico 海军陆战队基地主入口外，是雕塑家 Felix de Weldon 以硫磺岛升旗为题创作的石灰岩雕像，自1954年起立于该地。县警方估计，纪念碑所受损失达数十万美元。
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DHS Issues Statement After Man Beheads Iwo Jima Memorial Statue with Sledgehammer Outside Quantico Base
Washington — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a statement on October 23 about an attack on the Iwo Jima Memorial outside Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia: at about 10:13 p.m. on October 21, a man wielding a sledgehammer smashed the head off one of the memorial's statues; Prince William County police arrived while he was still damaging it and arrested him at the scene. DHS released photographs of the damaged memorial and the severed statue head.
The arrested man is Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, a Mexican citizen. County police booked him on charges including felony destruction of property, trespassing with intent to damage property, and felony damage to a memorial. According to DHS, Soriano was previously arrested in Stafford County in 2022 for trespassing.
DHS said Soriano illegally entered the United States in 1999, was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in October 2014 under the Obama administration, later renewed it, and that the status has now expired. The charges remain pending in court.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said in the statement: "This hate-filled illegal alien attacked the memorial honoring our heroic Marines, smashing the head off one of the statues with a sledgehammer. He was granted DACA by the Obama administration. A criminal who so clearly hates America should not be in our country. We will not allow our great history to be torn down by illegal aliens who have no respect for our nation and our values. This criminal will soon face justice."
The memorial stands outside the main gate of Marine Corps Base Quantico. It is a limestone statue by sculptor Felix de Weldon based on the flag raising on Iwo Jima, erected there in 1954. County police estimate the damage to the memorial at several hundred thousand dollars.
Source: GSM · United States
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图片来源：被砸断的硫磺岛纪念碑雕像头部。 Photo: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
