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In the past six months, the Mexican government has deported more than 80,500 migrants
政府數據顯示，過去6個月，墨西哥政府遣返了超8.05萬移民，
back to their homes in Central America and elsewhere, according to government data.
強迫他們返回中美洲和其他地方的老家。
During the same period, Mexican authorities detained about 400 people accused of trafficking migrants.
在這期間，墨西哥當局還拘留了大約400名被控走私移民的人。
And nearly 25,000 migrants applied for refuge in Mexico in the first five months of 2019.
此外，2019年前5個月時間里，就有近2.5萬移民在墨西哥申請避難。
“The Mexican government could interdict more migrants for sure,
“墨西哥政府絕對是能夠阻止更多移民的，
but they can’t just flip a switch and turn off the flow,”
但他們沒辦法像按開關一樣立刻切斷移民流，”
said Kevin Appleby, a veteran expert on migration.
資深移民專家凱文·阿普爾比評論說。
In Mexico, there is popular support for treating Central American migrants humanely,
在墨西哥，人們普遍支持給予中美洲移民人道接待，
and many Mexicans do not want to see President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bow to the wishes of his counterpart in the United States.
而且，許多墨西哥人都不希望看到總統安德烈斯·曼努埃爾·洛佩斯·奧夫拉多爾屈從于美國總統的意愿。
“He’s between a rock and a hard place.
“他現在也是進退兩難。
He doesn’t want to be seen as being a toady to the United States,”
他既不想大家認為他只會一味討好美國，”
said Doug Massey, a professor of sociology at Princeton University and a director of the Mexican Migration Project.
普林斯頓大學社會學教授、墨西哥移民項目主任道格·梅西說。
“He doesn’t want to violate the human rights of Central Americans,
“也不想侵犯中美洲人的人權，
who after all are simply escaping terrible conditions.”
畢竟那些人也只是想逃離原來那些可怕的生存環境。”
Carlos Heredia, a professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City,
墨西哥經濟教育研究中心教授卡洛斯·赫里迪亞周二表示，
said on Tuesday that whatever action Mexico takes to prevent migration into the United States,
墨西哥無論采取何種行動阻止移民進入美國，
it was unlikely to satisfy the president.
都不太可能讓總統滿意。
“If there is any logic to the way that President Trump handles policy, it’s that he likes conflict,” Mr. Heredia said.
“如果非要說特朗普總統處理政務的方式有什么邏輯的話，那就是他喜歡沖突，”赫里迪亞說。
“I don’t think that there is a way to please Trump.”
“我認為取悅特朗普的方法根本就不存在。”
Others said that it would take time for Mexico to make the changes the Trump administration was requesting.
其他人表示，墨西哥需要時間來做出特朗普政府要求的那些改變。
"This is not going to happen in seven days,"
“7天時間根本不夠，”
said Arturo Sarukhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the U.S.
墨西哥前駐美大使沙魯坎說。
"You can't enforce your way out of a migration crisis."
“想要從移民危機中硬闖出一條路來是不可能的。”
Mr. Trump’s tariff threat is driven largely by the significant increase in the number of migrants crossing illegally at the border.
特朗普的關稅威脅很大程度上是非法越境的移民人數大幅增加引起的。
Having vowed during his campaign to stop illegal immigration,
競選時總統曾承諾要結束非法移民，
the president views the increasing flow of migrants as a personal affront and a threat to his political brand.
在他看來，不斷增加的移民潮就是對他個人的侮辱，是對他政治品牌的威脅。
More than 100,000 of those arrested in May
官員們說，5月份在到達邊境時被捕的人中，
were unaccompanied children or migrants traveling as a family when they arrived at the border, officials said.
無人陪同的兒童或與家人一起越境的移民人數達到了10萬以上。
In March 2017, shortly after Mr. Trump took office, that number was about 2,000, according to government records.
政府記錄顯示，2017年3月，也即特朗普剛上任不久之際，這個數字才2000人左右。
“We are at a full blown emergency,” said John Sanders, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
“我們已經陷入了全面緊急狀態，”美國海關和邊境保護局代理局長約翰·桑德斯說。
“I cannot say this stronger: the system is broken.”
“我不知道我還要怎么說：我們的邊防體系已經崩潰了。”
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