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But really, the economic reasons are that you want to have food
但事實上，經濟原因是你想有食物
and you want to feed your family, you want to take care of your family.
并且養活你的家人，你想照顧你的家人。
And that is the basic reason for illegal immigration. And the people are so desperate.
這也是非法移民最重要的一個原因。人們是如此絕望。
There is no food at home or the home village is all shot up. And so you head for the lifeboat.
家里沒有吃的，或者家鄉被毀。因此，你請求救生艇。
What kind of people will we become if we turn them away?
如果我們趕他們走，我們會變成什么人?
Guest: Its sort of cultural ethnic cleansing that's happening here, now. That's what upsets me.
客人:在這里，現在文化遭到清洗，那是為什么使我難過的。
Jim Carroll: This woman's comment is that there is a kind of cultural ethnic cleansing happening now. Gish?
吉姆:這位女士說現在這里還有一種文化的清洗是嗎?任?
Gish Jen: You know, I'll say sort of an unpopular thing because obviously I am pro-immigration.
任碧蓮:你知道的，我會說一點不受歡迎的話因為明顯我支持移民。
Guest: I am.
客人:我也是。
Gish Jen: I know, I know. I'm just saying that my father was an illegal immigrant also;
任碧蓮:我知道，我只想說我爸爸也是一個非法移民;
was not legal until I was in grade school. I'm not unsympathetic.
直到我上學才摘掉非法的帽子 我并不是不同情。
But I will say that I can understand why others are freaked out. And I can understand it.
但我想說我明白為什么別人會為此而受驚擾，并且我能理解。
You know, I just heard a statistic the other day, where our unemployment is 10% overall.
我不久前一天，剛剛看過一個統計，我們這兒總共的失業率是10%。
Between 18 and 30 year olds the unemployment is 25%. That's a lot of unemployed people.
18歲到30歲的失業率是25%，有許多失業人口。
And that's in, and I also heard something where, not that someone's authority is always unimpeachable.
那是問題所在，我也聽說某人的權力是不可質疑的。
Larry Summers said, apparently, I know our favorite pundit.
《賴瑞的夏天》說過，顯然，我知道我們喜歡的人。
Larry Summers apparently said something, looking at the numbers;
里面還明確地指出某事，看數字;
we could be looking at the end of the middle class in America because the income disparity is growing so large.
我們可以看看在美國，中產階級的結果因為收入差距越來越大。
And he's predicting that past a certain point, there's only going to be poor people and rich people.
并且他批評過去的某一點，只有窮人和富人。
And I think that the middle class feels that. I don't know that he's right,
并且中產階級能感覺到，我不認為他是對的。
but what I do think is that the middle class is under a lot of pressure.
但我也認為中產階級生活在巨大的壓力下。
And I think that in combination with the fact that we're hard-wired, sadly, to be tribal.
我想結合我們天生群居的事實。
I mean, I think that all the studies that are coming out about oxytocin, you know the nursing hormone,
我認為所有的研究出來對催產素，你知道護理激素，
as soon as you feel that great flood of oxytocin that you feel brotherly love.
你一旦感受到洪水般的催產素你就會感到親切的愛。
