英語(yǔ)高級(jí)視聽聽力原文Unit10Dyingtogetin

1、unit 10 dying to get inwhe n it comes to illegal immigrati on, the leaders of both parties have n't found much to agree on - except for one thing just about everyone wants to spend billions of dollars to tighten the 2,000 mile us.-mexican border.there is nothing new about this since 1993, the u.

2、s. government has tripled the budget for border control, spending a small fortune on fences, high-tech surveillance equipment not to mention thousands of additional border patrol agents all of this was supposed to make it harder for illegal immigrants to cross over in cities and tow ns along the bor

3、der. and it did.but, as correspondent ed bradley reported last december; some of the same people who designed that strategy now say it*s been a huge waste of taxpayers* money and that it has done nothing to stop migrants from coming to the u.s. illegally what it has done, they say, is to force those

4、 migrants to cross remote and treacherous stretches of desert, where many are dyingthe death toll is so high that the border patrol now has a special unit whose only job to help migrants in trouble during the filming of our 60 minutes story, officer garrett neubauer received a distress call about 20

5、 miles north of the border in southern arizona"what we had is a person walked out to one of the roads, flagged down some agents, waved them down and stated that he had left his friend out on the desert," says neubauer.the migra nt they're looki ng for is an 18-year-old mexica n n amed

6、ab ran gonzales, who has been wandering in the desert for seven days agents have narrowed the search area and have found one of his shoes"that's what we're looki ng for, and that's why i wan ted to see his shoe just to kind of get an idea of what his other shoe looks like so i know

7、what i'm looking for on the ground it sounds to me like he's kind of out of it. he's dehydrated his condition is going downhill, so he's probably not thinking ration ally," says neubauer.agent neubauer has good reason to be concerned 60 minutes took a first-hand look at the path

8、s taken by migrants through the desert last summer when temperatures hovered above 100 degrees for weeks at a time.last year; the border patrol reported a record 464 deaths, but by all accounts the nu mber is much higher because of bodies that have n't bee n found.dr. br uce parks, tues on's

9、 medical exami ner; has been on the job for years and says he has never seen anything like this there are so many bodies, they won't fit in the vaults in the coroner's morguewhen 60 minutes visited, dr. parks had found a place to put an extra 60 bodies, a refrigerated truck that costs his de

10、partment $1,000 a weektwelve years ago, things were very different back then, no migrants died in the desert that's because it was easier to come in through american cities along the border. too easy, according to mark reed, who was the top immigration official in san diego."when i got ther

11、e, our inspectors were hiding in the inspect!on booths for fear of steppi ng out a nd being run over; literally trampled by people running through the port of entry itself a nd through the booths where the cars were, over the top of immigration inspectors if necessary," says reedhow many would

12、come at one time?"groups of 500 people running up the southbound lanes of 1-5," he recallsthe migrants had figured out that if there were enough of them, most of them could get through the stampedes occurred with such frequency that they became a public relations embarrassment to governmen

13、t officials the clinton administration decided something had to be done. huge metal walls went up, high tech surveillanee systems were purchased - and they did seal off major cities along the border; but not the mountains and desert in betwee n.mark reed helped shape the strategy"we thought the

14、 mountains and the desert were going to be our friends in terms of this strategy we thought that would deter entry through those places and that those would be places that we would not have to worry about," says reedreed says officials figured the terrain was so difficult it was a deterrent but

15、, he says, it turned out to be "our achilles* heel." "that's where the smugglers took them," he explains.in a remote stretch of desert across from new mexico, 60 minutes met a smuggler a nd 11 young men prepari ng to en ter the un ited states the men rub bed garlic on their p

16、ants to ward off sn akes then they cr ossed a three-foot barbed wire fence - each one carrying two gallons of water 一 no where near enough for a jour ney that could take five or six days last year, about a half million illegal migrants came from mexico to live and work in the u.s., about twice as ma

17、ny as came before the border was fortified"it actually encouraged more people to enter the country because what we did is we took away the ability of a worker to come into the country and cross back and forth fairly freely. so they started bringing their families in and actually domiciling in t

18、he united states with their entire family because they knew they could n't go back and forth," says reed more than 20 percent of the deaths in the desert last year were women and children the border patrol recorded 11 million arrests last year, but often it was the same people being arreste

19、d over and over again."i have caught the same group of people four times in one eight-hour shift/1 says tj bonner, who is the head of the border patrol agents union.but bonner says the immigrants try to come another way after being turned back. "whe n i looked in the record log the n ext d

20、ay, their n ames were n't there so i can only assume that they got by us the fifth time," he saysfortified fences like the one in nogales, arizon可 protect only about five percent of the us.-mexican border.bonner thinks that the number of illegal migrants has actually gone up since the barri

21、er went up. does he think the millions spent on the fence were a waste of money?"i think that's a fair assessmesays bonner.the u.s. government has spent about $20 billion on border control over the past 12 years but republican congressman tom tancredo insists that is just not eno ugh he'

22、;s spon sori ng a bill that calls for more age nts to remove illegal migrants where they work and to vastly in crease border securit y."if you only put the fence for this five miles of border; people will go around it, naturally you have to secure your borders!" says rep tancredo.he recomm

23、ends sealing off the entire border; building fences how much more should the government spend?"whatever it takes," 花ncredo says"billions more billions more ed, why not? it is our job it is what the federal government should be doing!"the university of california's wayne comel

24、ius, a national authority on immigration, predicted ten years ago that no matter what the government does to fortify the border; mexica n workers will still keep comi ng as long as there are jobs here for them"they can earn more in an hour of work in the united states than they could in an enti

25、re day in mexico 一 if they had a job/* says corneliusthe gover nment says crossi ng the borde r thro ugh the dese rt is breaki ng the law, but comelius says the u.s. is sending a very mixed message"the message that we're sending them is if you can get past the obstacle course at the border;

26、 you're essentially home free you have pretty much unestricted access to our labor market and there are employers out there eager for your labor;" he saysabout six million illegal migrants are now working in the u.s. the meatpacking industry is one of the many that rely on illegal immigrant

27、 labor. seven years ago, the immigration service cracked down on illegal migrants in plants in nebraska and iowamark reed was in charge of the operation."what we did is we pulled together the meatpacking industry in the states of nebraska and iowa and brought them into washington and told them

28、that we were not going to allow them to hire any more unauthorized workers within 30 days over 3z500 people fled the meatpacking industry in nebraska/' says reed"we proved that the government without doubt had the capacity to deny employment to unauthorized workers," says reedwhat happ

29、ened next?"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 ruin our economy,n says reed"the reason is that by putting that factory out of businessz not only do we put the unauthorized workers out of b

30、usiness, but we've put united statescitizens out of business and we destroy, we have the potential to destroy, an entire community/* says reedreed says that this illegal work force is "essential” to our economy.so what are taxpayers getting for the billions of dollars spent on border securi

31、ty?"getting a good story,” says reed but not a secure border.one recent attempt to secure the mexican border is a $14 million pilot-less drone, which sea ns the desert for in truders and pote ntial terrorists fear of terrorism is the latest reason that large bipartisan majorities in congress ha

32、ve voted to in crease the border patro i's budget "there are national security implications to porous borders there really are. i mean, people are comi ng into this coun try who want to come into this country for very nefarious purposes, not just to come here to work at the 7-eleve n, no, t

33、hey* re comi ng for other purposes/' says rep cn cred o.but cornelius says zero terrorists have been caught on the mexican border."they don't need to come in that way they can purchase the best forged docume nts in the world the real dan ger is that they will come through our legal port

34、s of entry with valid visas, just like the 9/11 terrorists did," says com elius there are now 11,000 border patrol agents, three times as many as there were 12 years ago. only 100 of them are assigned to find illegal migrants where they work nearly all spend their time making arrests and dropping migrants off on the mexican side of the border."talk with any body that may have bee n arrested out there in the desert theyll tell you, nu mber one, i'm just comi ng here to get a job because you have a job to give me and you want me for that job i