时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2013年(八月)


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Immigration Activists 1 Press US Lawmakers on Citizenship 2 for the Undocumented 移民活动人士对美国议员施压


The fate of U.S. immigration reform could be decided 3 in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives after Congress returns next month from a five-week recess 4. In the first of a two-part report, we examine efforts to pressure lawmakers in favor of a path to citizenship for the undocumented -- the most-contentious element of immigration reform.


While Congress was in summer recess, hundreds of activists converged 5 on the California district of Republican Congressman 6 Kevin McCarthy, hoping to change his position on immigration reform.


Their demand: a House vote on a comprehensive immigration reform package that would allow 11 million undocumented immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens. Organizer Dolores Huerta believes is should be everyone’s right.


“Every immigrant group that has come to the United States has been able to get citizenship, from the Founding Fathers, who were the first immigrants who came here, to the most recent ones who are here now,” said Huerta.


McCarthy was not present when demonstrators entered his district office. But a statement on the congressman’s website rules out a path to citizenship: “We should not provide any amnesty that would benefit those who defy our laws and enter the United States illegally.”


McCarthy’s position mirrors that of most House Republicans who have not been swayed by pro-immigration reform demonstrations 7 in congressional districts across the country. Activists need to re-think their tactics, according to Republican strategist John Feehery.


“The single most counter-productive thing that immigration activists can do is go into a Republican office and protest. The single most effective thing they can do is register in a Republican primary [election] and promise to vote against any Republican that does not support immigration reform.


The Washington-based coordinator 8 of the pro-reform lobbying effort, Frank Sharry, disagrees.


“Politics is about pressure. It is about organizing, it is about mobilizing. It is about getting your voice heard,” says he.


Sharry adds that lawmakers are feeling pressure from a broad coalition 9, not just street activists.


“They are hearing from the immigrants in their community, the business people, the tech entrepreneurs, the evangelical pastors 10, the Catholic bishops 11, and union leaders. That is a pretty unusual thing in American politics. So we are hopeful,” adds Sharry.


But House Speaker John Boehner has ruled out a vote on the comprehensive immigration bill passed by the Senate, preferring to start with law enforcement.


“It is clear that securing our borders and having the ability to enforce our immigration laws is the first big step in this process,” says Boehner.


Strategist Feehery says the Republican approach enjoys broad support.


“Poll after poll show the Republican [voter] base does not want a so-called 'amnesty' bill to pass. And anything of a comprehensive nature is called amnesty. So that makes it difficult for Republican leaders to get that necessary legislative 12 fix done,” says Feehery.


Democrats 13, meanwhile, will not support any bill that excludes a path to citizenship. And so the political stand-off on immigration reform drags on despite activists' efforts.




n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.市民权,公民权,国民的义务(身份)
  • 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。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.短期休息,壁凹(墙上装架子,柜子等凹处)
  • The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
  • Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。
v.(线条、运动的物体等)会于一点( converge的过去式 );(趋于)相似或相同;人或车辆汇集;聚集
  • Thousands of supporters converged on London for the rally. 成千上万的支持者从四面八方汇聚伦敦举行集会。
  • People converged on the political meeting from all parts of the city. 人们从城市的四面八方涌向这次政治集会。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威
  • Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
  • The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。
n.协调人
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
  • How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室?
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
n.(基督教的)牧师( pastor的名词复数 )
  • Do we show respect to our pastors, missionaries, Sunday school teachers? 我们有没有尊敬牧师、宣教士,以及主日学的老师? 来自互联网
  • Should pastors or elders be paid, or serve as a volunteer? 牧师或长老需要付给酬劳,还是志愿的事奉呢? 来自互联网
(基督教某些教派管辖大教区的)主教( bishop的名词复数 ); (国际象棋的)象
  • Each player has two bishops at the start of the game. 棋赛开始时,每名棋手有两只象。
  • "Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like. “他劫富济贫,抢的都是郡长、主教、国王之类的富人。
n.立法机构,立法权;adj.立法的,有立法权的
  • Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
  • Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • 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》
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absolute fatal wound
act of terrorism
advance copy
air-cooled turbine blade
aligned dimension
arctic mouse-ears
as pale as ashes
ato unit
bank holiday
bar silver
barbier
beam of uniform section
beam splitting dichroic mirror
boiler cupboard
boiling point elevation
C'esaro convergent series
Caldeirão, Sa.do
christianly
click-to-dial
configuration partition function
consistent deformation
continuous overhead sprinkling
copper clad steel
cross reference list
customs tael
decennary forbids
declaration for warehouse
dedecorated
densely ionization radiation
dequass
digital audio inputs
disclosure principle
dreadnaught,dreadnought
earnings surprise
error-deformation string
Evoron
exauguration
farming bacteriology
fidei-commissum
Freyburg
fruit-seed
gamma-butyrolacton
gauge fixing
glass table
gravity assist
grease proof wrapping
hencoops
hepatic rickets
hexylester
hot alignment
hub ratio
imporose
indeterminate fauit
Indiegogo
inter row cultivator
isobits
job confirmation
level holding pipe
Lord High Steward (of England)
multidiversified
napocor
nardoo
news summary
nuclear emulsion
optic papillae
overdimension container
overtighten
ovular
paramyxoviral
pee-eye
Pharmacometric
pigheadednesses
post-axiad
Power Five
quartz still
ratiometer
red bay
reelin
regenerative braking
reteeing
robern
safe in life and limb
see's
side house
simulated environment test
SlimBrowser
Softran
solar proton
SPDL
spheric earth
tamisier
tetons
thiaestrane
three-star
tubicoles
uncontrolled rise
unwilling to spend money
Uzunisa
vertical vane copying milling machine
Weiss' reflex myopic reflex
xylotrechus formosanus
Yongding