2021年unit10dyingtogetin原文

1、Unit 10 Dying to get inTwo weeks ago, PresidentBush touredthesouthwestand promisedtospend more than ever beforeto stop illegalimmigrantsfrom crossingour 2,000-mileborderwith Mexico.It s notthefirsttimea presidenthas pledgedtodo that. Inthereearly90s, the Clinton administration also vowed to tighten

2、the US-Mexican border. |精.|品.|可.|編.|輯.|學.|習.|資.|料. * | * | * | * | |歡.|迎.|下.|載. Since then, the US government has tripled the budget for border control, spending a small fortune on surveillance technology, not to mention thousands of additional border patrol agents. All of that was supposed to make

3、it harder for illegal immigrants to cross over in cities and towns along the border.And it did. So why are some of the same people who designed the strategy nowsayingit s been a huge waste oftaxpayers money Becauseit s done nothingto stop migrants from coming here illegally. What it has done, they s

4、ay, is to forcethosemigrantstocrossremote and treacherousstretchesofdesert,where many are dying.Episode 2:The death toll is so high that the Border Patrol now has a special unit whoseonlyjobisto helpmigrantsintrouble.OfficerGarrettNeubauer has justreceived a distress call about 20 miles north of the

5、 border in southern Arizona.Neubauer:“ What we had is a person who walked out to one of the roads, flaggeddown some agents,waved them down and statedthathe had lefthisfriendouton the desert.”The migrantthey re lookingforisan 18-year-oldMexican namedAbran Gonzales,who has been wanderinginthedesertfor

6、seven days.Agentshave narrowedthe search area and have found one of his shoes.Neubauer:“ That s what we re looking for, and thats why I wanted to see hisshoe. Just to kind of get an idea of what his other shoe looks like. So I know what第 1 頁，共 9 頁I m lookingforon theground. It sounds tome likehe s k

7、ind of out of it. He s dehydrated.Hisconditionisgoingdownhill,sohe sprobablynotthinking rationally.”Agent Neubauer has good reason to be concerned. We took a first-hand look at the paths taken by migrants through the desert this summer when temperatures 4 |精.|品.|可.|編.|輯.|學.|習.|資.|料. * | * | * | * |

8、|歡.|迎.|下.|載. hovered above 100 degrees for weeks at a time. This year, the Border Patrol hasreporteda recorded464 deaths,but by allaccountsthe number ismuch higherbecause of bodies that haven t been found.Dr Bruce Parks is Tucson s Medical Examiner.Correspondent:“ How long have you been here”Parks:“

9、 17 years.”Correspondent:“ Have you ever seen anything like this”Parks:“ No. ”There are so many bodies,they won t fitinthevaultsinthecorner s morgue. When we visited, Dr. Parks had found a place to put an extra 60 bodies.Parks:“ So thisistherefrigeratortruckthatwe had torentatthecostof$1,000 a week:

10、Correspondent:“Because you don t have enough room in there for the bodies, you have to put them in here”Parks:“ Right.”12 years ago, things were very different. Back then no migrants died in thedesert. That s because it was easier to come in through American cities along the border. Too easy, accord

11、ing to Mark Reed, who was the top immigration official inSan Diego.Reed: “When I got there, our inspectors were hiding in the inspection booths for第 2 頁，共 9 頁fearof steppingout and being run over,literallytrampledby people runningthrough the port of entry itself and through the booths where the cars

12、 were, over the topof immigration inspectors if necessary.”Correspondent:“ How many would come at one time”Reed: “ There were groups of 500 people running up the southbound lanes of I-5.: |精.|品.|可.|編.|輯.|學.|習.|資.|料. * | * | * | * | |歡.|迎.|下.|載. Episode 3:These pictures are from back then. The migran

13、ts had figured out that if therewere enough of them,most ofthem couldget through.The stampeds occurredwithsuch frequencythattheybecame a publicrelationsembarrassment to government officials.The Clintonadministrationdecidedsomethinghad tobe done. Hugemetalwallswent up, high-tech surveillance systems

14、were purchased and they did seal off majorcities along the border, but not the mountains and desert in between.Mark Reed helped shape the strategy.Reed: “ Wethoughtthemountainsand the desertwere goingto be our friendsinterms of this strategy. We thought that would deter entry through those places.An

15、d that those would be places that we would not have to worry about.”Correspondent：“ Because it was so difficult to get through here”Reed: “ So difficultto getthroughthere.Its so longand so expensive,itturned out to be our Achilles heel.”Correspondent:“Because that s exactly where they went”Reed:“ Th

16、at s where the smugglers took them.”In this remote stretch of desert across from New Mexico, we met a smuggler and 11 young men preparing to enter the United States. The men rubbed garlic on their pants and shoes to ward off snakes. Then they crossed a three-foot barbed wirefence each one carrying t

17、wo gallons of water nowhere near enough for a journey第 3 頁，共 9 頁that could take five or six days. This year, about half a million illegal migrantswillcome from Mexico toliveand work intheUS, abouttwiceas many as came before the border was fortified.Reed: “ Itactuallyencouragedmore peopletoentertheco

18、untrybecause what we didis we took away the ability of a worker to come into the country and cross |精.|品.|可.|編.|輯.|學.|習.|資.|料. * | * | * | * | |歡.|迎.|下.|載. back and forthfairlyfreely. So they startedbringing their families in and actuallydomicilingin the UnitedStateswiththeirentirefamilybecause they

19、knew they couldn t go back and forth.”More than 20 percentof the deathsn the desertthisyear were womenand children. The Border Patrol recorded million arrests this year, but often it s the same people being arrested over and over again. That s according to . Bonner, who isthe head of the Border Patr

20、ol agents union.Bonner:“ I have caught the samegroup of people fourtimesin one eight-hourshift.”Correspondent:“Four times in one eight-hour shift.”Bonner:“ Four times.”Correspondent:“So you sent them back, they try to come in another way.”Bonner:“When I lookedintherecordlogthenextday,theirnames were

21、n t there.So I can only assume that they got by us on the fifth time.”Fortified fences like this one in Nogales, Arizona, protect only about five percent of the US-Mexican border.Correspondent:“ If you look at the total number of illegal migrants coming intothe country,do you thinkthe number ismore

22、or lesssincethisbarrier went up ”Bonner:“ It s more. ”Correspondent:“ So, if more people are comingin todaythan were coming inbefore第 4 頁，共 9 頁thefencewent up,thenallofthemillionsofdollarsthatwent into building the thing was a waste of money.”Bonner:“ I think that s a fair assessment.”The US governm

23、ent has spent about $20 billion on border control over the past |精.|品.|可.|編.|輯.|學.|習.|資.|料. * | * | * | * | |歡.|迎.|下.|載. 12 years. But Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo insists the problem is that s justnot enough. He issponsoringa billthatcallsformore agents to remove illegalmigrants where they w

24、ork and to vastly increase border security.Rep Tancredo:“ Ifyou onlyput the fence,you know, forthisfivemilesof the border, people will go around it, naturally. You have to secure your borders.”Correspondent:“So you would recommend sealing off the entire border, building fences all along the border”R

25、ep Tancredo:“ Absolutely.”Correspondent:“How much more should we spend”Tancredo:“ Whatever it takes.”Correspondent:Billions more.”Rep Tancredo :“Billions more. Ed, why not It is our job. It is what the federal government should be doing.”TheUniversityofCaliforniasWayne Cornelius,anationalauthorityon

26、 immigration, predicted ten years ago that no matter what the government does tofortifytheborder,Mexican workerswillstillkeep coming as longas thereare jobs here for them.Cornelius:“ They can earn more in an hour of work in the United States that they could in an entire day in Mexico if they had a j

27、ob.”Correspondent:“ I t s very clear we are telling them not to come, and it should be very clear to them that if they do come through the desert, they第 5 頁，共 9 頁are breaking the law.”Cornelius:“ But we aresending them a very mixed message. The message that we re sending them is if you can get past

28、the obstacle course at the border,you re essentially home free. You have pretty much unrestricted access to our labor market and there are employers out there eager for your |精.|品.|可.|編.|輯.|學.|習.|資.|料. * | * | * | * | |歡.|迎.|下.|載. labor.”Episode 4Aboutsixmillionillegalmigrantsare now workingin theUS

29、. Themeatpacking industry is one of the many that rely on illegal immigrant labor. Seven years ago,theImmigrationServicecrackeddown on illegalmigrantsinplantsinNebraska and Iowa.Mark Reed was in charge of the operation.Reed: “ What we did is we pulled together the meatpacking industry in the states

30、of Nebraska and Iowa and brought them into Washington and told them that wewere not going to allow them to hire any more unauthorized workers. Within30 days over 3,500 people fled the meatpacking industry in Nebraska.”Correspondent:“ So, this was a huge success. I mean you had thousands of illegal i

31、mmigrants leaving.”Reed:“ We provedthatthegovernment withoutdoubthad thecapacitytodeny employment to unauthorized workers.”Correspondent:“What happened next”Reed:“We were invited to leave Nebraska by the same delegation that invited us in. the bottom line issue was, please leave our state before you

32、 ruin our economy. ”Correspondent:“You setup a program thatresultsinthousandsof illegalworkers第 6 頁，共 9 頁leaving.”Reed:“ Yes. ”Correspondent:“ And the governmentofficialsthatinviteyou intellyou to stop ”Reed:“ The reason for that is that by putting that factory out of business, notonlydo we puttheun

33、authorizedworkersout ofbusiness,but we ve put United |精.|品.|可.|編.|輯.|學.|習.|資.|料. * | * | * | * | |歡.|迎.|下.|載. States citizens out of business and we destroy, we have the potential to destroy an entire community.”Correspondent:“The bottomline,though,seems tobe thatthisillegalwork force is important t

34、o our economy.”Reed:“ Absolutely, it s essential to our economy.”Correspondent:“ So what are the taxpayers getting for the billions and billions of dollars that have been spent on securing the border”Reed:“ Getting a good story.” Correspondent:“ But not a secure border.” Reed:“ Do not have a secure

35、border.”Episode 5:The latestattempttosecuretheMexican borderisthis $14millionpilotless drone, which scans the desert for intruders and potential terrorists. Fear ofterrorism is the latest reason that large bipartisan majorities in Congress have voted to increase the Border Patrol s budget.Spokesman:

36、“ This represents another step in our nations response to possible terrorists seeking entry into the United States.”Tancredo:“ There are nationalsecurityimplicationsto porous borders.There really are. I mean, people who are coming into this country and who want to comeinto this country for very nefa

37、rious purposes, not just to come here to第 7 頁，共 9 頁work at the 7-11no, they re coming for other purposes.” Correspondent:“How many terrorists have we caught on the Mexican border” Cornelius:“ Zero. ”Correspondent;“ Then maybe you could say that building all of these walls andfortificationsandhavingt

38、housandsofborderagentsdoesworkasa |精.|品.|可.|編.|輯.|學.|習.|資.|料. * | * | * | * | |歡.|迎.|下.|載. deterrent”Cornelius:“ They don t need to comeinthatway. They can purchasethe best forged documents in the world. The real danger is that they will come through ourlegal ports of entry with valid visas, just li

39、ke the terrorists did.”They are now 11,000 Border Patrol agents, three times as many as there were 12 years ago. Only 1000 of them are assigned to find illegal migrants where theywork. Nearlyallspend theirtimemaking arrestsand droppingmigrantsoffon the Mexican side of the border.Reed:“ Talk with any

40、body that may have been arrested out there in the desert.Theylltellyou,number one,I m justcoming here togeta jobbecause you have a job to give me and you want me to be here for that job.I m not doing anything really wrong. America wants me.”In the Arizonadesert,Border PatrolAgent Neubauer getsword tha