四大移民庇护城市听证会：丹佛市长开场发言 | 2025.3.
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:01 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 0:02 | I now recognize Denver Mayor Johnson for his opening statement. | 我现在感谢丹佛市长约翰逊的开幕词。 |
| 0:08 | Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for inviting me to testify today. | 早上好,主席先生,谢谢你邀请我今天作证。 |
| 0:13 | This committee convened this hearing on the critical topic of immigration. | 该委员会召集了这次关于移民这一关键问题的听证会。 |
| 0:16 | I want to tell you Denver's story. | 我想告诉你丹佛的故事 |
| 0:19 | When I became mayor 20 months ago, Denver was already receiving buses of immigrants with little to no notice or coordination. | 20个月前我成为市长时,丹佛已经接收了移民的巴士,几乎没有通知或协调. |
| 0:25 | At one point, we were receiving 10 to 11 buses a day, dropping off as many as 300 people, | 有一次,我们每天收到10到11辆公交车, 运送多达300人, |
| 0:31 | mostly women and children, in 10 degree weather with only sandals and a t-shirt, leaving them in danger of freezing to death on our streets. | 大部分是妇女和儿童,在10度的天气中,只有凉鞋和一件T恤,使他们有可能在街上冻死。 |
| 0:40 | All told, 42,000 people arrived in Denver over 18 months, the largest per capita influx of any city in America. | 据悉,有42,000人在18个月内抵达丹佛,是美国任何城市人均流入量最大的城市. |
| 0:49 | We are each entitled to our own opinion about what should happen at the border, but that was not the question facing Denver. | 我们每个人都有权就边境上应该发生的事情提出自己的看法,但丹佛所面临的问题并非如此。 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 2 | I now recognize Denver Mayor Johnson for his opening statement. | 我现在感谢丹佛市长约翰逊的开幕词。 |
| 3 | Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for inviting me to testify today. | 早上好,主席先生,谢谢你邀请我今天作证。 |
| 4 | This committee convened this hearing on the critical topic of immigration. | 该委员会召集了这次关于移民这一关键问题的听证会。 |
| 5 | I want to tell you Denver's story. | 我想告诉你丹佛的故事 |
| 6 | When I became mayor 20 months ago, Denver was already receiving buses of immigrants with little to no notice or coordination. | 20个月前我成为市长时,丹佛已经接收了移民的巴士,几乎没有通知或协调. |
| 7 | At one point, we were receiving 10 to 11 buses a day, dropping off as many as 300 people, | 有一次,我们每天收到10到11辆公交车, 运送多达300人, |
| 8 | mostly women and children, in 10 degree weather with only sandals and a t-shirt, leaving them in danger of freezing to death on our streets. | 大部分是妇女和儿童,在10度的天气中,只有凉鞋和一件T恤,使他们有可能在街上冻死。 |
| 9 | All told, 42,000 people arrived in Denver over 18 months, the largest per capita influx of any city in America. | 据悉,有42,000人在18个月内抵达丹佛,是美国任何城市人均流入量最大的城市. |
| 10 | We are each entitled to our own opinion about what should happen at the border, but that was not the question facing Denver. | 我们每个人都有权就边境上应该发生的事情提出自己的看法,但丹佛所面临的问题并非如此。 |
| 11 | The question Denver faced was what will you do with a mom and two kids dropped on the streets of our city with no warm clothes, | 丹佛所面临的问题是 你会怎么做 和一个妈妈和两个孩子 扔在我们城市的街道上 没有温暖的衣服, |
| 12 | no food, and no place to stay? | 没有食物,也没有地方住? |
| 13 | As mayor, I have to protect the health and safety of everyone in our city. | 作为市长,我必须保护全市所有人的健康和安全. |
| 14 | As a man of faith, I have a moral obligation to care for those in need. | 作为一个信仰的人,我有道德义务照顾那些需要帮助的人. |
| 15 | As scripture says, for I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. | 正如经文所说,因为我饿了,你给了我一些吃的. |
| 16 | I was thirsty, you gave me something to drink. | 我渴了,你给我喝东西 |
| 17 | I was a stranger, and you invited me in. | 我是个陌生人 你邀请我进来 |
| 18 | So that's what we did. | 这就是我们所做的。 |
| 19 | In Denver, we believe our problems are solvable, and we are the ones to solve them. | 在丹佛,我们相信我们的问题是可以解决的,我们才是解决问题的人。 |
| 20 | So we went to work. | 所以我们去工作了 |
| 21 | When we started, we had the largest encampment in Denver history with more than 200 migrant families living in freezing temperatures. | 当我们开始的时候,我们拥有丹佛历史上最大的营地,200多个移民家庭生活在寒冷的温度中. |
| 22 | So we opened eight different city shelters housing 5,000 people. | 因此,我们开设了八个不同的城市收容所,收容了5,000人。 |
| 23 | City employees volunteered to take extra shifts, and Denver residents stepped up, making meals, donating clothes, furniture, school supplies, | 城市员工自愿额外值班,丹佛居民加紧了做饭,捐赠衣服,家具,学校用品, |
| 24 | some even welcomed families into their own homes. | 有些人甚至欢迎家庭进入自己的家园。 |
| 25 | We helped 8,700 eligible individuals apply for work authorization so they could put food on their own table, | 我们帮助了8 700名有资格的人申请工作许可,以便他们能够将食物放在自己的桌子上, |
| 26 | pay their own rent, and reduce the strain on public resources. | 支付自己的租金,并减轻公共资源的压力。 |
| 27 | As a result, a year later, there is not a single migrant encampment left in the city. | 因此,一年之后,市内没有一处移民营地。 |
| 28 | We have closed all of our shelters. | 我们已经关闭了所有避难所。 |
| 29 | We have connected people to jobs and housing, and the city's immigrant support budget has dropped by nearly 90%. | 我们把人与工作和住房联系起来,该市的移民支持预算下降了近90%。 |
| 30 | And in the midst of this, migrants did not bring a wave of crime to Denver. | 而在此过程中,移民并没有给丹佛带来犯罪浪潮. |
| 31 | In fact, crime went down. | 事实上 犯罪率下降 |
| 32 | Homicides dropped 17%, shooting victims dropped 24%, auto theft down 29%. | 凶杀案下降了17%,枪击受害者下降了24%,汽车盗窃下降了29%。 |
| 33 | America is not just a place, it's a belief. | 美国不仅仅是一个地方,它是一种信仰。 |
| 34 | Some people are born into it. | 有些人是天生的 |
| 35 | Some fight their whole life to get to it. | 有些人一生都在为这个而奋斗 |
| 36 | It's a belief that all are created equal. | 相信一切众生平等. |
| 37 | It's a belief that it doesn't matter where you came from if you're willing to fight hard enough. | 相信只要你愿意足够努力地战斗,从哪里来并不重要. |
| 38 | Julian Becerra's parents believed that, so they brought him to this country from Mexico when he was 10. | 朱利安·贝塞拉的父母相信这一点,于是他10岁时从墨西哥把他带到这个国家. |
| 39 | They taught him respect, and they taught him to love and serve his community. | 他们教他尊重,教他爱他,服务他的社区. |
| 40 | As an adult, he decided the most honorable way to serve his community was in uniform. | 作为成年人,他决定了为社区服务的最光荣的方式是穿着制服. |
| 41 | So he enlisted in the Air Force. | 所以他加入了空军 |
| 42 | Then he served as a sheriff, then finally as a police officer where he served with distinction | 然后他当了警长 终于当了警察 在那里他表现优异 |
| 43 | until one day he was pursuing a criminal on a dangerous bridge and fell to his death. | 直到有一天,他在危险桥上追杀一名罪犯,并坠落至死。 |
| 44 | In the midst of the immigration crisis, I attended the fallen officer's memorial | 在移民危机中,我参加了落马军官的纪念会 |
| 45 | as I watched officer's hand, officer Becerra's 10-year-old daughter, a folded American flag. | 当我看着军官的手, 警官贝塞拉的10岁的女儿, 一个折叠的美国国旗。 |
| 46 | I watched her cry as she wrapped her little arms around that flag | 我看着她哭着把小手臂包在旗子上 |
| 47 | and holding it tight the way she wished she could hold her dad, but never will again. | 紧紧地抱着她希望她能抱着她的父亲 但再也不会了 |
| 48 | For the rest of her life, she will cherish that flag, that American flag, | 在她的余生,她会珍惜那面旗帜,那面美国旗帜, |
| 49 | because it is the country that her dad loved, it is the country he chose, | 因为那是她爸爸所爱的国家 那是他选择的国家 |
| 50 | it is the country he served, it is the country he gave his life for. | 这是他所服务的国家, 是他献身的国家。 |
| 51 | So if we want to tell the story of what impact immigrants have in America, we must tell the full story. | 因此,如果我们要讲述移民在美国的影响, 我们必须讲述整个故事。 |
| 52 | That story must acknowledge that this country is lucky to have people like Julian Becerra | 这个故事必须承认,这个国家有朱利安·贝塞拉这样的人是幸运的 |
| 53 | who love this country enough to risk their lives to keep us safe, to keep all of us safe. | 他们爱这个国家 足以冒着生命危险 保护我们的安全 保护我们所有人的安全 |
| 54 | When buses started showing up filled with migrants, some in my city were afraid, | 当公交车开始出现 充满移民, 我的城市有些人害怕, |
| 55 | just like I'm sure some of your constituents are afraid. | 就像我敢肯定一些你的选民 害怕。 |
| 56 | They were afraid about crime and homelessness | 他们害怕犯罪和无家可归 |
| 57 | and worried about what these new people might take away from them. | 担心这些新人会夺走他们的东西 |
| 58 | I understand that fear. | 我理解这种恐惧。 |
| 59 | And the truth is people who are new to this country do good and bad just like all of us. | 事实是,对于这个国家来说是新人的人,像我们所有人一样,做善恶的事。 |
| 60 | But there's another truth. | 但还有另一个事实。 |
| 61 | When those buses kept on coming, Denver made a choice as a city, | 当那些公交车继续来的时候 丹佛做了一个城市的选择 |
| 62 | not to hate each other, but to help each other. | 不相憎恶,而相助. |
| 63 | Not to turn on each other, but to turn to each other | 不是互相背叛 而是互相背叛 |
| 64 | and see if together we could solve a problem that felt bigger than any one of us. | 看看我们能不能一起解决一个比我们任何人都更严重的问题。 |
| 65 | And that's what we did. | 这就是我们所做的。 |
| 66 | It wasn't perfect and it required sacrifice from all of us. | 它并不完美,需要我们所有人的牺牲。 |
| 67 | But in the end Denver came out stronger and closer than we were before. | 但最终丹佛比我们更强大 更接近我们 |
| 68 | Because Americans expect us to do more than point fingers. | 因为美国人期望我们做的不只是指点 |
| 69 | They expect us to solve problems. | 他们期望我们解决问题。 |
| 70 | So if Denver can find a way to put aside our ideological differences long enough to manage a crisis, | 所以,如果丹佛能找到一个方法 抛开我们的意识形态分歧 足够长的时间来管理危机, |
| 71 | we didn't choose or create. | 我们没有选择或创造。 |
| 72 | It seems only fair to ask that the body that is actually charged | 要求被控告的尸体 |
| 73 | with solving this national problem, this Congress, | 解决这个全国性问题,本届国会, |
| 74 | can finally commit to do the same. | 终于能承诺也这样做了 |
| 75 | Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | 谢谢你,主席先生。 |
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