So what they need is a pathway to legal status: they should register, admit that they broke the law, pay a fine, and taxes, and learn English.

因此，要做的就是给他们需要的一条取得合法地位的途径：登记注册，承认违法，缴纳罚金，上缴税收和学习英语。

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"I'm very confident that we can get immigration reform done, " the president said as he drew an outline of what that would look like: Stronger border security, penalties for companies hiring undocumented workers and a pathway to legal status for otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants.

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And more Republicans are joining Jeb Bush's support for comprehensive immigration reform that provides a pathway to citizenship for long-term, law-abiding residents.

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Suddenly we not only had a new form of measurement, reducing events to the binary combination of 1s and 0s, but a pathway (ultimately described by Moore's Law) to making that measurement evermore precise.

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