PBS高端访谈:特朗普打击移民

JUDY WOODRUFF: Throughout the pandemic, the president and his team are continuing to pursue policies cracking down on immigration. Today, the administration said that it will try to find ways to wind down and limit a program that protects dreamers from deportation¹. Dreamers are the immigrants who arrived or remained in the U.S. illegally as children, and haven²'t lived most of their lives here. It is one of several moves of late. Our Amna Nawaz has been following all this closely. And she joins me now. So, Amna, today, what the administration has done, this is a program, Deferred³ Action for Childhood Arrival, this is something the administration has been trying to end for months. The Supreme⁴ Court has turned them down. So, help us understand what exactly the administration is trying today.

AMNA NAWAZ: Well, the move today, Judy, basically further undermines the program. It is currently shielding about 700,000 people from deportation. The Trump⁵ administration announced today it will no longer accept new applications for that DACA program. It is going to limit renewals⁶ for one year, rather than the two-year standard, all of this, it said, while it…quote, unquote…reviews the program. Now, you mentioned the Supreme Court has said the Trump administration cannot end the DACA program. It's not because they thought the president doesn't have the authority to do it. It's just they didn't agree with the way that they were going about doing it. So, that left the door open for the administration to try again. Today's move makes it seem like the president is not done trying. So, Judy, most people I talked to you today said there are sure to be more legal challenges ahead.

JUDY WOODRUFF: So, there's another legal fight, as you know, Amna, on another immigration front from this administration. This one is roughly…about roughly 100 children who are in immigration detention⁷. A judge has ordered that these children be released. The deadline for that to happen was last night. Tell us what the latest is.

AMNA NAWAZ: That's right, Judy. So, those 100 or so children are held in what's called family residential⁸ centers. Those are run by ICE. There's three of them across both Texas and Pennsylvania. They're federal immigration detention. And the judge did order those children to be released, because the law says kids shouldn't be in those facilities longer than 20 days. Most of those children have been there much longer. But the judge's order did not extend to the parents. And therein lies the problem. So, ICE officials are now presenting parents with a choice. They're saying, sign a consent form, waive⁹ your child's rights, and remain together in federal detention, or voluntarily separate. Allow us to take your child, place that child with a family member or a sponsor family or government custody¹⁰. Critics are now calling this family separation 2.0. Now, I did ask ICE for a response to all of this and to that legal deadline from the judge they appear to have missed. And this is what they said. We're unable to comment due to ongoing¹¹ litigation. However, the most recent decision from that judge paves the way for the parties to continue to dialogue, in anticipation¹² of providing an update to the district court by August 5. So, Judy, it looks like they are working with the judge to try to get more time to try to figure out how to handle those kids' cases and not release the families together, which they really don't want to do…Judy.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Such a concerning report. And, Amna, still another concerning report, this one first reported by the Associated Press, has to do with unaccompanied children being kept in hotels along the border. What is…how is…obviously, there was pushback. What's the administration saying now?

AMNA NAWAZ: So, Judy, what typically happens when kids come into custody is, they're transferred over to the government agency responsible for the care and custody of migrant children. They have medical and legal and educational resources. The report found that ICE was actually keeping custody, with a contractor¹³ holding children in hotels and then, within days, deporting¹⁴ them back to their home countries. That was without any evaluation¹⁵ of what they were sending the kids back to. That, of course, is considered on a number of levels. I asked ICE for a response to this as well. They said there's pending¹⁶ litigation, so they can't really talk about it. But any official I talked to today, including former government officials, said it's concerning when it comes to child welfare interests, for a number of reasons. These ICE contractors¹⁷ are not trained to handle the care and custody of children in the same way the other government agency is…Judy.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And, finally, Amna, when you step back, and you look at all of these moves, what the administration's trying to do, whether they're talking about it or not, what does this all add up to?

AMNA NAWAZ: Judy, it's all in keeping with the president's ongoing efforts to limit immigration, both illegal and legal. I think most people are struck, however, by the fact that children typically…children have typically been the exception, that any child seeking safe haven in the U.S. has been granted that. And that's no longer the case. I actually spoke¹⁸ to a former senior ICE official, a man named Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, who left the administration just about a year ago. He called the decision to house kids in hotels without due process abhorrent¹⁹. He said there are other ways that families in detention can be released together and still comply with the law. He said, in his time in the office, they worked to make sure they were enforcing the nation's immigration laws, but maintaining humanitarian²⁰ standards. And, Judy, he told me this seemingly went out the door with the current administration…Judy.

JUDY WOODRUFF: So many important pieces of this story, one of those stories that hasn't gotten a lot of attention because of the pandemic and so much else going on. Really important to be following this. Amna, thank you.

AMNA NAWAZ: Thanks, Judy.

1 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。

2 haven   

n.安全的地方，避难所，庇护所

参考例句：

• It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后，这真是一个安乐窝。
• The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。

3 deferred   

adj.延期的，缓召的v.拖延，延缓，推迟( defer的过去式和过去分词 )；服从某人的意愿，遵从

参考例句：

• The department deferred the decision for six months. 这个部门推迟了六个月才作决定。
• a tax-deferred savings plan 延税储蓄计划

4 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

5 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。

6 renewals   

重建( renewal的名词复数 )； 更新； 重生； 合同的续订

参考例句：

• Number of circulations excluding renewals. 7th out of 10 libraries. 借阅数目（不包括续借）。在10间图书馆中排行第七。
• Certification Renewals shall be due on July 1 of the renewal year. 资格认证更新在更新年的7月1日生效。

7 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

8 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

9 waive   

vt.放弃，不坚持(规定、要求、权力等)

参考例句：

• I'll record to our habitat office waive our claim immediately.我立即写信给咱们的总公司提出放弃索赔。
• In view of the unusual circumstances,they agree to waive their requirement.鉴于特殊情况，他们同意放弃他们的要求。

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 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

12 anticipation   

n.预期，预料，期望

参考例句：

• We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着，期待她的到来。
• The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安，像是感到了地震即将发生。

13 contractor   

n.订约人，承包人，收缩肌

参考例句：

• The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
• The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。

14 deporting   

v.将…驱逐出境( deport的现在分词 )；举止

参考例句：

15 evaluation   

n.估价，评价；赋值

参考例句：

• I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
• The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。

16 pending   

prep.直到，等待…期间；adj.待定的；迫近的

参考例句：

• The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
• He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。

17 contractors   

n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》

18 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

19 abhorrent   

adj.可恶的，可恨的，讨厌的

参考例句：

• He is so abhorrent,saying such bullshit to confuse people.他这样乱说，妖言惑众，真是太可恶了。
• The idea of killing animals for food is abhorrent to many people.许多人想到杀生取食就感到憎恶。

20 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。