网红松鼠P'Nut主人被ICE拘留近一个月 丈夫称源于表格填错 国土安全部称其逾期滞留
位于美国纽约州希芒县的 Pine City 11月11日传出新进展：两年前被纽约州执法人员带走并实施安乐死的网红松鼠 Peanut（又称 P'Nut）的主人之一、30岁的德国籍女子 Daniela Bittner，自10月中旬起被美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）拘留近一个月，现被关押在德克萨斯州的移民拘留设施，面临被遣返德国的可能。美联社与《纽约邮报》11月11日均报道了此事：美国国土安全部证实了逮捕并称其逾期滞留，其丈夫 Mark Longo 则称拘留源于一份移民表格填错。
Peanut 是一只幼年丧亲后被 Longo 收养的松鼠，生前因各种滑稽举动在社交平台走红，成为网络明星。据美联社报道，2024年10月，纽约州执法部门接到多起投诉，称这对夫妇在家中非法把野生动物当宠物饲养，执法人员带走了 Peanut 与一只浣熊；检查期间 Peanut 咬伤了一名野生动物生物学家戴着手套的拇指，随后被实施安乐死以便进行狂犬病检测。此事当时引发广泛同情，共和党人、时任候选人的 JD Vance 曾在竞选集会上公开批评纽约州政府的做法。
据《纽约邮报》报道，10月16日，夫妇二人驾车前往纽约州 Elmira 一处机场，准备乘机参加一场 TikTok 活动，下车时被便衣执法人员带走了 Bittner。此后她先后被转移到 Syracuse、Buffalo、路易斯安那州与德克萨斯州的多处拘留设施。Longo 对《纽约邮报》称，妻子没有犯罪记录，当局已对她作出行政遣返处理，可不经听证直接遣返；这一处理说法目前只有丈夫一方的口径。
美国国土安全部发言人对《纽约邮报》表示，Bittner 在2021年5月至2022年11月间曾多次合法入境、每次获准临时停留，该发言人称她「选择无视我国法律、逾期滞留」，并强调「待审申请并不赋予在美国的合法身份」。Longo 则对美联社表示，两人在处理 Peanut 被带走一事期间填错了一份移民表格且没有及时发现；夫妇二人对《纽约邮报》称，当局曾要求补充材料，其后称申请因表格错误被拒，但他们从未收到那封拒信。Longo 对美联社说：「该抓的人去抓，我妻子不是其中之一。」他还表示，自己已就妻子的案件与特朗普总统的盟友、UFC 主席 Dana White 谈过，当地官员也在了解此案。
夫妇二人共同经营非营利动物救助机构 P'Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary。据《纽约邮报》报道，该机构收容约600只动物，包括100匹马。Longo 对美联社表示，如果妻子被遣返，他将被迫关闭这家救助机构：「唯一能保住这个地方的结果，就是我妻子不被遣返。」截至11月11日，ICE 与美国国土安全部未公布 Bittner 的遣返时间表。
Owner of Viral Squirrel P'Nut Detained by ICE for Nearly a Month as Husband Blames a Paperwork Error and DHS Cites an Overstay
A new chapter in the saga of Peanut, the viral pet squirrel euthanized by New York officials two years ago, emerged on November 11 in Pine City, Chemung County, New York. Daniela Bittner, 30, a German native and one of Peanut's owners, has been held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for nearly a month since mid-October and is now housed at an immigration detention facility in Texas, facing possible deportation to Germany. Both the Associated Press and the New York Post reported the detention on November 11: the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest and said she had overstayed, while her husband, Mark Longo, blamed an immigration paperwork error.
Peanut was an orphaned squirrel adopted by Longo whose antics made him a social media star. According to the Associated Press, in October 2024 New York officials, acting on complaints that the couple were illegally keeping wild animals as pets, seized Peanut and a raccoon; during an inspection Peanut bit the gloved thumb of a wildlife biologist and was euthanized so he could be tested for rabies. The episode drew widespread sympathy at the time, and JD Vance, then a candidate, criticized New York State's response at a campaign rally.
According to the New York Post, on October 16 the couple drove to an airport in Elmira, New York, to fly to a TikTok event, and plainclothes officers took Bittner into custody as they got out of their car. She has since been moved through detention facilities in Syracuse and Buffalo, Louisiana and Texas. Longo told the Post that his wife has no criminal history and that officials had placed her in administrative deportation, which he said would allow the government to remove her without a hearing; that account of the process comes from the husband alone at this stage.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told the Post that between May 2021 and November 2022 Bittner lawfully entered the country multiple times with permission to stay for a temporary period, said she 'chose to overstay her welcome in defiance of our nation's laws,' and added: 'To be clear, a pending application does not confer legal status in the United States.' Longo told the Associated Press that the couple made a mistake on one of her immigration forms while dealing with the seizure of Peanut and did not catch the error; the couple told the Post that officials had requested more information and later said the application was denied for wrong paperwork, but that they never received the denial letter. 'You know, arrest the people who deserve to be arrested. My wife is not one of them,' Longo told the AP. He said he has spoken about her case with UFC chief Dana White, an ally of President Donald Trump, and that local officials have been looking into it.
The couple runs the nonprofit P'Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary. According to the Post, the sanctuary keeps some 600 animals, including 100 horses. Longo told the AP he will have to shut down the sanctuary if his wife is deported: 'The only outcome that will save this place is my wife not being deported.' As of November 11, neither ICE nor the Department of Homeland Security had announced a timetable for Bittner's removal.
来源：美联社
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图片来源：图：东美松鼠（灰松鼠）资料图，摄于 Pittsburgh（MartinThoma 摄，CC0，经 Wikimedia Commons），已裁为16:9；图中松鼠并非 Peanut 本鼠。/ File photo of an eastern gray squirrel in Pittsburgh (by MartinThoma, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons), cropped to 16:9; the squirrel pictured is not Peanut.
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