美国国家公共电台 NPR Deadline Looms For Thousands Of DREAMers

 

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So this is a very important deadline today for DACA recipients¹. That's the Deferred² Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects nearly 700,000 so-called DREAMers from deportation³. Today is the last day for DACA recipients to renew their two-year work permits before the program expires. Here's NPR's Joel Rose.

JOEL ROSE, BYLINE⁴: Since the Trump⁵ administration announced a month ago that it's phasing out DACA, thousands of undocumented immigrants have been scrambling⁶ to renew their two-year work permits for what could be the last time. Many got help filling out their applications at pop-up legal clinics like this one at the City University of New York.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: When was your last entry to the United States?

ROSE: DACA helped thousands of students across the country go to college and to work legally after graduation. Now, all that is in limbo⁷. Ashraf Jalal (ph) moved to New York when he was 4 with his parents who are Moroccan. Jalal is studying computer science at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, but he knows that without DACA he might have to leave the U.S. to work in his field.

ASHRAF JALAL: I mean, I can definitely work back in Morocco with an American degree in computer science, but I've never been there. I don't know anything. I don't know any of my family, actually.

ROSE: The Department of Homeland Security says more than 100,000 DACA recipients have applied⁸ to renew their work permits ahead of today's deadline. DACA protections will begin expiring in March unless Congress reaches an agreement to extend them. There's bipartisan support for that idea, but there are some sticking points. One is that immigration hard-liners say any deal has to include some funding for President Trump's border wall. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley thinks there is room for compromise on that.

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CHUCK GRASSLEY: Any potential DACA agreement has to include robust⁹ border security, and by that, I don't mean a wall. Border security is more than that.

ROSE: But that's not the only hurdle¹⁰. Immigrant rights advocates and some Democrats¹¹ want to see new protections for DREAMers without extra border spending or other conditions attached. While all of this plays out in Washington, Jennifer Guzman (ph) is just trying to get through school. She's a junior at Hunter College in New York.

JENNIFER GUZMAN: My main goal is graduating on time because an education is something no one can take for me. I don't know what comes after that.

ROSE: What Guzman does know is that her DACA benefits will expire in the summer of 2019, just a few weeks after she's scheduled to graduate. Joel Rose, NPR News, New York.

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1 recipients   

adj.接受的；受领的；容纳的；愿意接受的n.收件人；接受者；受领者；接受器

参考例句：

• The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 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

3 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。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• 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。

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 scrambling   

v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发，冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 limbo   

n.地狱的边缘；监狱

参考例句：

• His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。
• I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead.I felt as if I was in limbo.我不知道家人是生是死，感觉自己茫然无措。

8 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

9 robust   

adj.强壮的，强健的，粗野的，需要体力的，浓的

参考例句：

• She is too tall and robust.她个子太高，身体太壮。
• China wants to keep growth robust to reduce poverty and avoid job losses,AP commented.美联社评论道，中国希望保持经济强势增长，以减少贫困和失业状况。

10 hurdle   

n.跳栏，栏架；障碍，困难；vi.进行跨栏赛

参考例句：

• The weather will be the biggest hurdle so I have to be ready.天气将会是最大的障碍，所以我必须要作好准备。
• She clocked 11.6 seconds for the 80 metre hurdle.八十米跳栏赛跑她跑了十一秒六。

11 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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》