时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:2018年NPR美国国家公共电台6月


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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:


All right, now where families may be housed will depend a lot on what the Pentagon can do. The U.S. military has been asked to provide facilities for migrants. NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman has been trying to get some details on how this might work. He's here with me now. Hey, Tom.


TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE 1: Hello there.


KELLY: How many beds are we talking?


BOWMAN: The Department of Health and Human Services has asked for up to 20,000 temporary beds from the Pentagon, and the Pentagon's looking at it right now. So - and they've been asked to provide these beds between July and the end of the year. So July's coming pretty fast, so...


KELLY: Coming up in a few weeks, yeah.


BOWMAN: Right.


KELLY: Do we know which military bases we're talking? This would be on existing military bases near the border.


BOWMAN: That's right. I'm told they're looking at the Army's Fort Bliss 2 in Texas as well as Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas. Those are the two places. But I'm told you could have a couple more as well because that number 20,000 is pretty big...


KELLY: Right.


BOWMAN: ...Finding space for them.


KELLY: Right, and in flux 3. And we're talking families, just children - do we know?


BOWMAN: This would be - HHS is asking for up to 20,000 beds for unaccompanied children.


KELLY: OK.


BOWMAN: But you're right. As far as where the families would go, would that be part of this as well? Would Department of, you know, Homeland Security be asking for additional bed space for families? At this point we don't know. It's only HHS at this point.


KELLY: So are we talking barracks? I mean, we're talking 20,000 additional beds on these bases.


BOWMAN: That's right. I asked one Army officer, senior Army officer. I said, well, do you have barrack space...


KELLY: Right.


BOWMAN: ...At Fort Bliss to put all these folks in? And he said probably not. So you'd have to likely create some sort of a tent city at some point. And - but we don't have an answer to that yet.


KELLY: Another question is - we're talking unaccompanied children, thousands of unaccompanied children. What kind of facilities might be there in terms of playgrounds, facilities catering 4 specifically to kids?


BOWMAN: Yeah. We don't have an answer to that either. During the Obama administration, they did house thousands of children for a short time at some of these very military bases, so I'm not sure exactly the facilities they created. Did the Army have a playground there or stuffed animals for these kids? We really don't have any detail right yet about what these facilities would look like.


KELLY: Has anything ever been done like this before?


BOWMAN: Well, again, during the Obama administration they did it for a short period of time. But again, it's difficult because you have to build this location. They would have to bring in maybe trailers for showers and also bathroom facilities. So...


KELLY: And I guess in terms of this scale, the numbers.


BOWMAN: Right. The numbers are very, very large of course.


KELLY: So does the military say it's ready to do this? Are they on board?


BOWMAN: Defense 5 Secretary Jim Mattis said, we will see what we can do here. And again, it's - they're asking - HHS is asking the Pentagon, you know, can you fulfill 6 this? I mean, how many beds can you provide? So we don't have an answer yet from the Pentagon - oh, we can provide 20,000. They may say we can provide half of that or three-quarters of that. At this point we really don't know. But what we do know is these two bases, Fort Bliss and Goodfellow Air Force Base, are some of the ones we expect to have these temporary beds for undocumented children.


KELLY: Seems to speak to the ongoing 7 scramble 8 to try to figure out how to respond to the president's executive order and the ongoing flux in immigration policy and what exactly...


BOWMAN: That's absolutely right.


KELLY: ...Is happening at the border. NPR's Tom Bowman, thank you.


BOWMAN: You're welcome.



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  • 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。
n.狂喜,福佑,天赐的福
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n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
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adj.进行中的,前进的
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v.爬行,攀爬,杂乱蔓延,碎片,片段,废料
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ADA deficiency
algarobas
all and each
annual extreme daily mean relative humidity
assemble system
baggage buffet car
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barbulate
bend one's neck
bluefield
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bullet graphs
bustout
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cinnainoside
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core strategy
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drummer's palsy
Fairness Opinion
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idiostrangalia rarasanensis
itaconic acid fermentation
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Leptomitus epidermidis
level-sensitive scan design
liquation hearth
make my flight
McCurtain County
mirror-image twin
natch-bone
nonlinear sampling
orthetrum testaceum testaceum
Oulad Naïl, Mts.des
Pacoval
path-goal theory of leadership
Paul's test
Picrasma quassioides
Pinguinus
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prize case
programmable
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recording air speedometer
run off the straight
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shifting of income tax
shines out
signaling project
slight skewness
soil erosion mathematical model
sorehead
special purpose machine tool
static volumetric method
structural analysis of spacecraft
Sulfaisodimerazine
sweep amplifier
T.4
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Timbalier Bay
tonic exercise
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TTCE
ungated spillway
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witall
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zazie