美国国家公共电台 NPR ICE Raids Expected To Target Recently Arrived Migrant Families In 10 Cities

 

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

Immigrant communities are once again bracing¹ for nationwide raids targeting migrant families. The raids are expected to begin Sunday.

Here's acting² U.S. Citizenship³ and Immigration Services Director Ken⁴ Cuccinelli speaking to reporters at the White House yesterday.

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KEN CUCCINELLI: They're absolutely going to happen. There's approximately a million people in this country with removal orders.

SHAPIRO: These raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are expected to target a much smaller group, probably a few thousand migrants in total.

Joining us with the latest is NPR's Joel Rose here in the studio.

Hey, Joel.

JOEL ROSE, BYLINE⁵: Hey, Ari.

SHAPIRO: President Trump⁶ first threatened these raids last month before then calling them off. What do we know about the current plans?

ROSE: Well, as before, these raids are expected to target migrant families who've recently arrived in the U.S., mostly from Central America, and who've already received their final orders of deportation⁷. We think they'll be concentrated mainly in 10 cities - Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Houston among them. These are places where the Department of Justice has sped up immigration cases of many recent arrivals.

We asked ICE for more details. They declined to comment on operations. But at the same time, administration officials are saying that these raids are imminent⁸.

SHAPIRO: We're going to hear from Houston's mayor in just a moment. But why would they announce that these raids are coming? Doesn't that kind of undermine the mission?

ROSE: Well, I put that question to former ICE Director John Sandweg. Here is what he had to say.

JOHN SANDWEG: It's confusing for me why you would ever advertise an operation like this in advance of actually conducting it. I mean, that violates the cardinal⁹ rule, which is that you maintain the element of surprise, both to protect the safety of your officers and to ensure the effectiveness of the operation.

ROSE: Sandweg thinks there is tension inside the Department of Homeland Security about that very question because, first, President Trump tweeted that these raids were coming and also that this current operation has been leaked to the public.

But Sandweg also thinks there are big concerns inside DHS about going after migrant families in the first place in this public way because, you know, Sandweg says if children are separated from their parents as a result of this - of these raids, it could really be a black eye for ICE and could potentially - that could potentially happen if these raids - if the parents are in the country illegally but the children are U.S. citizens. So - and all of this is happening, of course, at a time when DHS is already taking a lot of heat for how it's treating migrants in its custody¹⁰.

SHAPIRO: Yeah. Within immigrant communities, how are people preparing for this?

ROSE: Well, they've seen this coming for several weeks and have been planning in preparation. They think this operation might put entire communities at risk of deportation, not just these migrant families.

I talked to Andrea Guttin. She is the legal director at Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative.

ANDREA GUTTIN: We tell people to know their rights, to know that they don't have to tell anyone their immigration status. They don't have to open the door for anyone unless there is a signed warrant by a judge, which is different than an administrative¹¹ warrant signed by ICE. We are concerned that family members might be picked up additionally in these raids, not just people with deportation orders.

ROSE: There are also protests planned over the coming days. The ACLU has gone to court preemptively, hoping to get a judge to block the raids. The ACLU argues that these cases were moved through the court system so quickly that many of the migrants probably didn't even get notices to appear in court at all.

SHAPIRO: Why is the administration so focused on these families in particular?

ROSE: It's true that past administrations - in past administrations, these would - families would not have been a priority for deportation. Under President Obama, for example, ICE focused more on immigrants with criminal records, which the majority of these migrant families don't have.

But this administration wants to discourage Central American migrants from coming north. We've seen huge numbers crossing the border this year, although they dipped a bit last month. And the administration really wants to show it is willing to crack down on these migrants if and when they lose their asylum¹² cases.

SHAPIRO: NPR's Joel Rose. Thanks a lot.

ROSE: You're welcome.

1 bracing   

adj.令人振奋的

参考例句：

• The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
• The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。

2 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

3 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。

4 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

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 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。

7 deportation   

n.驱逐，放逐

参考例句：

• The government issued a deportation order against the four men.政府发出了对那4名男子的驱逐令。
• Years ago convicted criminals in England could face deportation to Australia.很多年以前，英国已定罪的犯人可能被驱逐到澳大利亚。

8 imminent   

adj.即将发生的，临近的，逼近的

参考例句：

• The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
• The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。

9 cardinal   

n.(天主教的)红衣主教；adj.首要的，基本的

参考例句：

• This is a matter of cardinal significance.这是非常重要的事。
• The Cardinal coloured with vexation. 红衣主教感到恼火，脸涨得通红。

10 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

11 administrative   

adj.行政的，管理的

参考例句：

• The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
• He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。

12 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。