在经济衰退时期要消化增加的客工极为困难。

It will be extremely hard to sell an increase in foreign workers during a recession.

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他说：“当然，有关建筑行业，找不到什么好理由输入人员，给他们发放临时客工签证。”

"Certainly, in relation to construction, there is no good reason for the importation of people on temporary guest visas," he said.

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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。

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.

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