时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(六月)


英语课

By Michael Bowman
Washington
29 June 2006


The Bush administration says it is taking effective steps to stem illegal immigration to the United States, but Congress must act to overhaul 1 America's immigration system. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff delivered a speech urging comprehensive immigration reform.


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Michael Chertoff   
  
Secretary Chertoff says Americans have every right to be concerned about the hundreds-of-thousands of illegal immigrants that stream across U.S. borders every year.


"The vast majority of people who come into this country illegally do so for benign 2 reasons - they want to work," he said. "[But] There are certain segments that want to commit crimes, or even potentially commit terrorist acts. Illegal immigration has brought with it violence, trespassing 3 and disturbance 4 to our border communities. There has been an impact all across the country in [burdening] emergency rooms, hospitals and schools."


Responding to this concern, Chertoff says, the Bush administration has increased the number of border patrol agents, deployed 5 advanced technology to monitor remote border areas, and mobilized National Guard units to aid in the task of border enforcement. In addition, the homeland security chief said the administration has augmented 6 the ability of immigration agents to return illegal immigrants to their countries of origin, and boosted efforts to crack down on American businesses that hire illegal aliens.


But, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, Chertoff said, more needs to be done. He said additional funding is required to further enhance border security, and that the United States must initiate 7 a guest worker program to provide a secure, legal means for law-abiding foreigners to get work, and for American businesses to satisfy labor 8 needs.


For this, he said legislative 9 action is urgently needed.


"Congress has an opportunity and a responsibility to act this year to tackle this problem [of illegal immigration]. It has to be clear to everybody that we cannot allow this problem to continue to fester. If we do not address it comprehensively, it is not going to go away of its own accord. It will be here next year and the next decade, and decades afterwards," he said.


In recent months, President Bush repeatedly has called for comprehensive immigration reform. The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill that closely mirrors an administration proposal to strengthen border enforcement, create a guest worker program, and provide a rigorous path for many undocumented workers to eventually gain legal status.


Late last year, however, the House of Representatives passed a bill that focuses on law enforcement to solve America's immigration dilemma 10. The bill would classify illegal immigrants as felons 11, and criminalize those who provide assistance to the country's undocumented population. Many representatives in President Bush's own Republican Party object to any measure that would allow illegal immigrants to remain in the country - a measure they regard as amnesty.


A bi-cameral conference is to attempt to reconcile the sharply divergent bills generated by the two chambers 12. But analysts are increasingly skeptical that Congress will pass final immigration reform legislation before November elections



1 overhaul
v./n.大修,仔细检查
  • Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
  • It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知,铁路系统需要大检修。
2 benign
adj.善良的,慈祥的;良性的,无危险的
  • The benign weather brought North America a bumper crop.温和的气候给北美带来大丰收。
  • Martha is a benign old lady.玛莎是个仁慈的老妇人。
3 trespassing
[法]非法入侵
  • He told me I was trespassing on private land. 他说我在擅闯私人土地。
  • Don't come trespassing on my land again. 别再闯入我的地界了。
4 disturbance
n.动乱,骚动;打扰,干扰;(身心)失调
  • He is suffering an emotional disturbance.他的情绪受到了困扰。
  • You can work in here without any disturbance.在这儿你可不受任何干扰地工作。
5 deployed
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
  • Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
  • The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
6 Augmented
vt.开始,创始,发动;启蒙,使入门;引入
  • A language teacher should initiate pupils into the elements of grammar.语言老师应该把基本语法教给学生。
  • They wanted to initiate a discussion on economics.他们想启动一次经济学讨论。
7 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
8 legislative
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。
9 dilemma
n.困境,进退两难的局面
  • I am on the horns of a dilemma about the matter.这件事使我进退两难。
  • He was thrown into a dilemma.他陷入困境。
10 felons
n.重罪犯( felon的名词复数 );瘭疽;甲沟炎;指头脓炎
  • Aren't those the seats they use for transporting convicted felons? 这些坐位不是他们用来押运重犯的吗? 来自电影对白
  • House Republicans talk of making felons out of the undocumented and those who help them. 众议院共和党议员正商议对未登记的非法移民以及包庇他们的人课以重罪。 来自互联网
11 chambers
n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅
  • The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间:Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网
学英语单词
abdominal part
absolutely stable
absorbing state
adrenochromes
aluminium foils
asymmetric transformation
banded stilts
basivertebral vein
battologized
be let in on the ground floor
body feed
Buridan's ass
cash invoice
Chorzelów
chronographer
clip off
combined vibrating roller
compensating feedback loop
conus planorbis
cost objective
cotton production
cylinder by-pass valve
D-frame
data over voice
days of rest
deglamorization
derestrict
dextrotorsion
dispersion-equalization
ditching attitude
Dohans
electrical characteristics
externally-braced monoplane
fall-out of synchronism
forecaddies
golden eagle
Goldstein-Scheerer tests
graduated string
half-hunter
Haplopappus spinulosus
have analogy to
heating system
heliotridylamine
hildebrand
hotlines
hyuck
indirect type central air-conditioning unit
Internet suffix
Izena-jima
Kurdistani
lampyridaes
leukoplania
liquid waste receiver tank
local acceptance
lsi-cml circuit technology
magnetoresistance magnetometer
merions
metal surface plasmon and second harmonic generator
minimum graph
mohs scales
natural environment management
nervi ampullaris lateralis
neverless
occasional light
once and a way
ordinary life assurance
oscillator padding
Osipa
photocell matrix
piston curl
pivot hinge
pontes
prequalified tenderer
puffest
queueing system structure
reflux column
repair of side ditch
Revere, Paul
sample-reset loop filter
Scirpus rosthornii
scornliche
separation of spinal cord and arachnoid adhesions
silicon diode array
sope
speed through the water
stellite-faced valve
Subprime Meltdown
tee-times
toll free number
toroidal discharge
transitive law
trichomonal urethro-cystitis
under constraint
undistributed score
virus diarrhea
waltz through
white cypresses
wide anode
win ... over
Yak-141
yellow-necked mice
zygomorphic pea flower