不久，移民部门开始复查所有在美伊拉克难民的资料，据报道，他们会拿出档案馆中尘封的军事及情报文件，与那些难民的指纹及其他记录进行比对。
Immigration authorities soon began rechecking all Iraqi refugees in America, reportedly comparing fingerprints and other records with military and intelligence documents in dusty archives.
新法案呼吁把美亚混血儿作为移民而不是难民带回美国，只要外貌和西方人有一点关系的人几乎都能获准入境。
The new law called for bringing Amerasians to the United States as immigrants, not refugees, and granted entry to almost anyone who had the slightest touch of a Western appearance.
从那些受教育程度较高的移民来看，越来越多出生于外国的大学毕业生在美获得工作技能与教育资质后离美而去。
At the more educated end of the market, foreign-born college graduates are increasingly likely to leave America after gaining skills and qualifications.
我们需要制定法规，对违法用工的雇主罚款，加强边境守护。我们不能够因为某人种族关系、区域近缘关系或在美亲属数量而给予其合法移民地位，而是要视其所能带来的技术和资本而定。
We should institutionalize employer fines, finish the fence—and predicate legal entry into the US not on race, nearness to the border, or the number of relatives in America, but on skills and capital.
OECD的研究人员认为，在2000年前后来美国的移民中，至少有19%于五年后离美前往它国。
OECD researchers reckon that at least 19% of migrants who arrived in America at the turn of the millennium had left for other destinations five years later.
过去爱尔兰和意大利移民融入了美国社会。而因为美墨两国历史相互交织并且有着共同的国界，这使得在美国的拉美人总显得有些与众不同。
The intertwined history of America and Mexico and their common border make Hispanics a somewhat different demographic group than, say, Irish or Italian immigrants used to be.
新近一项研究显示，2008年在美国出生的婴儿中，每12个人中就有一个是非法移民的子女，这一估算可能加剧美国社会对在美出生即获美国公民权一事的争论。
One in 12 babies born in the U. S. in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new study, an estimate that could inflame the debate over birthright citizenship.
截止2008年9月，美墨边境巡逻队于本财政年截获的非法移民还不到724000人，创1970年至今最低点（见上表）。
In the year to September 2008 724,000 fewer people were caught trying to cross into America from Mexico, the lowest annual tally since the 1970s (see chart).
而整条美墨边境线都是这样一种情况：去年全年，美国在边境线拘押非法移民44731人，这仅为2000年峰值年份的四分之一，当年拦截人数为1643679人。
Much the same is true of the border as a whole: last year's tally, of 447,731 arrests, is barely a quarter that of the peak year, 2000, when 1,643,679 people were intercepted.
而整条美墨边境线都是这样一种情况：去年全年，美国在边境线拘押非法移民44731人，这仅为2000年峰值年份的四分之一，当年拦截人数为1643679人。
Much the same is true of the border as a whole: last year's tally, of 447,731 arrests, is barely a quarter that of the peak year, 2000, when 1,643,679 people were intercepted.
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