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There are protests along the U.S.-Mexico border after judge blocks ending Title 42

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Along the U.S.-Mexico border, migrant groups seeking asylum² are protesting a judge's ruling that keeps Title 42, Trump³-era pandemic border restrictions⁴, in place.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Along the U.S.-Mexico border, protesters are speaking out after a federal judge blocked President Biden's attempt to end the imposition of Title 42. That's a public health measure President Trump used to turn away asylum-seekers when coronavirus cases were high. And it is still U.S. policy. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports from Nogales, Mexico.

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KIRK SIEGLER, BYLINE⁵: In Nogales, in the Mexican state of Sonora, a couple hundred migrants, mostly women and young children, are crowded into a small plaza⁶ just a few hundred feet away from the U.S. port of entry.

UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER: (Chanting in non-English language).

UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in non-English language).

SIEGLER: Signs in Spanish and English read 500 days waiting and Title 42 is racist⁷. People had hoped that order would be lifted Monday, as the Biden administration had planned, so they could finally apply for asylum in the United States.

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UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Singing in non-English language).

SIEGLER: A 24-year-old woman named Betzaida (ph) doesn't want to give her last name because she says she's escaping cartel violence in southern Mexico. After a harrowing trip, she and her three young kids have been living here in Nogales for the past 10 months.

BETZAIDA: (Non-English language spoken).

SIEGLER: "I'm not looking for the American dream," she says. "We just want to be safe." She has family in Las Vegas she's trying to get to. That's unlikely to happen now after Arizona and two other Republican states sued to keep Title 42 in place and a federal judge agreed. This protest's organizers want more compassion⁸ from the U.S. side of the border. Pedro De Velasco is with the Nogales-based Kino Border Initiative.

PEDRO DE VELASCO: It's not true what you're listening to all around the United States, that there are hundreds of thousands of people waiting here, you know? There are a couple of hundreds, perhaps, that are waiting. And that they have been waiting for months and months.

SIEGLER: It is pretty quiet here. But after two years of Title 42 closures and a lot of global upheaval⁹, there is a backlog¹⁰ of people seeking asylum on the southwestern border. Yuma, Ariz., is one of the busiest places for migrant apprehensions¹¹ right now in a state with a long history of polarizing immigration battles. Mayor Douglas Nicholls says when the Biden administration moved to drop Title 42, it didn't have a clear plan for how to deal with the surge in humanitarian¹² need. He told member station KJZZ that small cities and towns could again be overwhelmed.

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DOUGLAS NICHOLLS: As we know, watching immigration over the decades, that when there's news that appears to open up a border, there's large movements of people.

SIEGLER: In Nogales, Ariz., a frustrated¹³ Santa Cruz County sheriff David Hathaway says Title 42 needs to end. He says calling it a public health tool is dishonest.

DAVID HATHAWAY: It's just kind of saying a way to never adjudicate something. Like the Guantanamo Bay thing - let's stick people in there, and then we never have to deal with them. It's a way to never adjudicate the issue.

SIEGLER: Title 42 or not, there's no indication that desperate people will stop trying to illegally enter the U.S. For now, Betzaida, who's protesting, is planning to stay here in Sonora, even though it's hard to find work or an affordable¹⁴ apartment. She says it's too dangerous to hire a smuggler¹⁵ to cross this rugged¹⁶ desert. But she doesn't fault those who do.

BETZAIDA: (Non-English language spoken).

SIEGLER: We are not a virus, she says. Our government put us in this situation. We're just desperate.

Kirk Siegler, NPR News, Nogales.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

3 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

4 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 plaza   

n.广场，市场

参考例句：

• They designated the new shopping centre York Plaza.他们给这个新购物中心定名为约克购物中心。
• The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen.这个广场上布满了便衣警察。

7 racist   

n.种族主义者，种族主义分子

参考例句：

• a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
• His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。

8 compassion   

n.同情，怜悯

参考例句：

• He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
• Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。

9 upheaval   

n.胀起，(地壳)的隆起；剧变，动乱

参考例句：

• It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ.它面临第二次世界大战以来最大的社会动乱。
• The country has been thrown into an upheaval.这个国家已经陷入动乱之中。

10 backlog   

n.积压未办之事

参考例句：

• It will take a month to clear the backlog of work.要花一个月的时间才能清理完积压的工作。
• Investment is needed to reduce the backlog of repairs.需要投资来減轻积压的维修工作。

11 apprehensions   

疑惧

参考例句：

• He stood in a mixture of desire and apprehensions. 他怀着渴望和恐惧交加的心情伫立着。
• But subsequent cases have removed many of these apprehensions. 然而，随后的案例又消除了许多类似的忧虑。

12 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

13 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

15 smuggler   

n.走私者

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight, awaiting extradition to Britain. 这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• The smuggler was finally obliged to inform against his boss. 那个走私犯最后不得不告发他的首领。

16 rugged   

adj.高低不平的，粗糙的，粗壮的，强健的

参考例句：

• Football players must be rugged.足球运动员必须健壮。
• The Rocky Mountains have rugged mountains and roads.落基山脉有崇山峻岭和崎岖不平的道路。