【奥巴马演讲】议会通过通过常识性移民改革法案的时候到了(1/2)
Hints:http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201306/201306250918065728813.mp3Hi everybody. Right now, the United States Senate is debating a bipartisan, commonsense bill that would be an important step toward fixing our broken immigration system. It's a bill that would continue to strengthen security at our borders, and hold employers more accountable if they knowingly hire undocumented workers, so they won't have an unfair advantage over businesses that follow the law. It's a bill that would modernize the legal immigration system so that, as we train American workers for the jobs of tomorrow, we're also attracting the highly skilled entrepreneurs and engineers who grow our economy for everyone. It's a bill that would provide a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million individuals who are in this country illegally - a pathway that includes passing a background check, learning English, paying taxes and a penalty, then going to the back of the line behind everyone trying to come here legally. And, a few days ago, a report from the Congressional Budget Office definitively showed that this bipartisan, commonsense bill will help the middle class grow our economy and shrink our deficits, by making sure that every worker in America plays by the same set of rules and pays taxes like everyone else.
According to this independent report, reforming our immigration system would reduce our deficits by almost a trillion dollars over the next two decades. And it will boost our economy by more than 5%, in part because of businesses created, investments made, and technologies invented by immigrants.大家好。现在，美国的参议院正在就一个两党兼顾的常识性的法案进行辩论。这个法案是走向修补破损的移民体系的重要一步。这个法案将继续加强我们的边界安全，使雇主们在知道雇佣没有合法居住权的工人时更负责任，这样他们就失去了相对遵纪守法的企业的不公正优势。
这个法案将使移民法律体系现代化，这样我们就能培训美国的工人适应明天的工作，我们还能吸引高技能的企业家和工程师来发展我们的经济造福每个人。这个法案将为1千1百万合法居住在我国的个人获得公民权通过途径—这个途径包括通过背景审查，学习英语，支付税负和罚款，然后站到希望合法进入我国的每个人的后面排队。几天前，一个来自国会预算委员会的报告明晰地表明这个两党兼顾的常识性的法案将通过保证每一个在美国工作的工人在相同的游戏规则和与他人支付相同的税负帮助中产阶级发展我们的经济，减少我们的赤字。根据这份独立的报告，改革我们的移民体系将使我们的赤字在今后的二十年里减少近万亿美元。它将为我们的经济发展贡献5个百分点，部分地因为移民的创业、投资和技术发明。
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