Not only did they sacrifice funding for border policing; they also lost a guest-worker programme that would have allowed hundreds of thousands of legal grunts into the country each year.

他们不但没有得到边防警戒的增加预算，他们还失去了客工计划，即那每年准许上万人合法进入美国打工的计划。

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"The migrant worker phenomenon has led to separation of families in other countries, most notably the Philippines, but that's on a much smaller scale, and mostly cross-border," he says.

“流动打工者造成家庭成员分离的现象在其它国家也有，其中首推菲律宾，但他们的范围较小，而且大多都是跨国打工，”他说。

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"The migrant worker phenomenon has led to separation of families in other countries, most notably the Philippines, but that's on a much smaller scale, and mostly cross-border," he says.

“流动打工者造成家庭成员分离的现象在其它国家也有，其中首推菲律宾，但他们的范围较小，而且大多都是跨国打工，”他说。

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