美国国家公共电台 NPR For Some Latino Voters, DACA Is Just The Latest Blow From Trump

 

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In conservative-leaning Nevada, Latino voters showed their power last year by helping¹ deliver the state to Hillary Clinton. If President Trump² sticks with his decision to end DACA on top of pardoning Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and continues to threaten to build a wall with Mexico, he runs the risk of turning off even more Latino voters. Here's NPR's Leila Fadel reporting from Las Vegas.

LEILA FADEL, BYLINE³: It's this Latin American grocery store, Cardenas, where long lines of Latino voters cast their ballots⁴ for president last year. The Latino vote helped turn Nevada blue. On this day, most people I asked to interview say they're too afraid. They're afraid, they say, because they feel like this administration is targeting them.

MARISOL HERNANDEZ: Oh, my God. It's crazy what he's doing right now.

FADEL: Marisol Hernandez says that President Trump emboldening⁵ racists. And he's making it seem like anyone seen as an immigrant is a criminal. Ending DACA is the latest blow. It's a program that allows young undocumented people brought to America by their parents to work, to go to school and to buy homes.

HERNANDEZ: What did the Hispanics and everyone that's not white do to him? Why did he say - oh, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to put a wall?

FADEL: Hernandez voted here, at this grocery store. And she says she'll vote again to push this president out. Nationally, Hillary Clinton took 66 percent of the Latino vote in the last election. The Senate race in Nevada will be an important political battleground next year with an incumbent⁶ Republican, Dean Heller, seen as one of the most vulnerable senators defending his seat. Already, he's distancing himself from Trump's immigration positions.

Michael Kagan is the director of the immigration law clinic at the University of Nevada Las Vegas' law school.

MICHAEL KAGAN: What I see is that Donald Trump has gone back on many things he said in the campaign on many issues. But he's actually been very consistent on being anti-immigrant and appealing to a white voting bloc⁷, the rubric that people sometimes call white nationalism.

FADEL: Trump's created an atmosphere of fear, says Laura Martin, associate director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, which advocates for immigrants' rights. About 13,000 people have DACA in Nevada.

LAURA MARTIN: It just affects so many people here. You can't live in Nevada and not know somebody who would be directly affected⁸ by this.

FADEL: She says, since Trump was elected, her office gets hate mail and people threatening to call immigration. One email she received recently said this. (Reading) Every one of you illegals should be gathered up and deported⁹. You bring disease, crime and corruption¹⁰.

MARTIN: He's encouraging people to see someone maybe like me - by the color of my skin, the texture¹¹ of my hair - and make an assumption. And that just puts people in danger.

FADEL: Democrats¹² are jumping on the DACA decision to get Latino voters registered and to the polls in the next election. But there are Latinos who vote Republican and believe Trump will bring positive immigration reform. I reach Anthony Osnaya on his cellphone before Trump's decision.

ANTHONY OSNAYA: It's just media feeding us all this terror. They're making him look like he's so - a bad guy, a bad president, the worst, which is - you know, he's doing his job.

FADEL: He was hoping Trump would preserve DACA and told me he had no comment after the decision was made.

Miriam Cadenas meets me at Planned Parenthood, where she volunteers. As we speak, she feeds her 4-month-old baby and pats him on the back.

MIRIAM CADENAS: I'm not going to let immigration status keep me away from my kid.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: (Cooing).

CADENAS: (Laughter).

FADEL: Cadenas has DACA. She was brought from Mexico when she was 8. Her son is a citizen. She can't vote. But last year, she knocked on doors to get people out to the polls. And now she's poised¹³ for a new fight. Leila Fadel, NPR News, Las Vegas.

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 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。

3 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。

4 ballots   

n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 )；选举；选票；投票总数v.（使）投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 emboldening   

v.鼓励，使有胆量( embolden的现在分词 )

参考例句：

6 incumbent   

adj.成为责任的，有义务的；现任的，在职的

参考例句：

• He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
• It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。

7 bloc   

n.集团；联盟

参考例句：

• A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
• There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。

8 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

9 deported   

v.将…驱逐出境( deport的过去式和过去分词 )；举止

参考例句：

• They stripped me of my citizenship and deported me. 他们剥夺我的公民资格，将我驱逐出境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The convicts were deported to a deserted island. 罪犯们被流放到一个荒岛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

11 texture   

n.(织物)质地；(材料)构造；结构；肌理

参考例句：

• We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
• Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。

12 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 poised   

a.摆好姿势不动的

参考例句：

• The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
• Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张，手悬在电话机上。