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【看中国2019年8月13日讯】(看中国记者天琴翻译)2019年8月12日,川普政府发布最终规则,保护美国纳税人,维护弱势美国人的社会安全网,维护法治,确保非公民不滥用国家的公共利益。这一行动将有助于确保外国人一旦想要进入或留在美国,他们必须资助自己,而不是依靠公共福利。
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President Donald J. Trump is Ensuring Non-Citizens Do Not Abuse Our Nation’s Public Benefit
唐纳德·J·川普总统确保非公民不滥用我们国家的公共利益
IMMIGRATION
移民
Issued on: August 12, 2019
发布于:2019年8月12日
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To protect benefits for American citizens, immigrants must be financially self-sufficient.
为了保护美国公民的利益,移民必须在经济上自给自足。
President Donald J. Trump
唐纳德·J·川普总统
PROTECTING PUBLIC RESOURCES: The Trump Administration is taking action to help ensure that non-citizens in this country are self-sufficient and not a strain on public resources.
保护公共资源:川普政府正在采取行动,帮助确保本国的非公民自给自足,不对公共资源造成压力。
- The Trump Administration is releasing a final rule that will protect American taxpayers, preserve our social safety net for vulnerable Americans, and uphold the rule of law.
川普政府正在发布最终规则,保护美国纳税人,维护弱势美国人的社会安全网,维护法治。
- This action will help ensure that if aliens want to enter or remain in the United States they must support themselves, and not rely on public benefits.
这一行动将有助于确保外国人一旦想要进入或留在美国,他们必须资助自己,而不是依靠公共福利。
- An alien who receives public benefits above a certain threshold is known as a “public charge.”
接受超过一定门槛的公共福利的外国人被称为“公共负担”。
- Aliens will be barred from entering the United States if they are found likely to become public charges.
外国人如果被发现他们可能成为公共负担,将被禁止进入美国。
- Aliens in the United States who are found likely to become public charges will also be barred from adjusting their immigration status.
被发现可能成为公共负担的外国人,也将被禁止调整他们的移民身份。
- Aliens will be barred from entering the United States if they are found likely to become public charges.
- President Trump is enforcing this longstanding law to prevent aliens from depending on public benefit programs.
川普总统正在执行这项长期法律,以防止外国人依赖公共福利计划。
- The Immigration and Nationality Act makes clear that those seeking to come to the United States cannot be a public charge.
“移民和国籍法”明确规定,那些寻求来美国的人不能成为公共负担。
- The Immigration and Nationality Act makes clear that those seeking to come to the United States cannot be a public charge.
- For many years, this clear legal requirement went largely unenforced, imposing vast burdens on American taxpayers. Now, public charge law will finally be utilized.
多年来,这一明确的法律要求基本上没有得到执行,给美国纳税人带来了巨大的负担。现在,公共负担法最终将得到运用。
ENCOURAGING SELF-SUFFICIENCY: Self-sufficiency has long been a basic principle of our Nation’s immigration laws that has enjoyed widespread support.
鼓励自给自足:自给自足一直是我们国家移民法的基本原则,得到广泛的支持。
- Public charge has been a part of United States immigration law for more than 100 years as a ground of inadmissibility.
作为不予受理的理由,公共负担作为美国移民法的一部分已有100多年的历史。
- Congress passed and President Bill Clinton signed two bipartisan bills in 1996 to help stop aliens from exploiting public benefits.
经国会通过,比尔.克林顿总统于1996年签署了两个两党一致的法案,以帮助阻止外国人利用公共福利。- This included the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.
其中包括“个人责任和工作机会相容法”以及“非法移民改革和移民责任法”。
- As Congress made clear at the time, it is our national policy that aliens should “not depend on public resources to meet their needs.”
正如国会当时明确指出的那样,我们的国家政策是:外国人应该“不依赖公共资源来满足他们的需求”。
- This included the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.
- Americans widely agree that individuals coming to our country should be self-sufficient, with 73 percent in favor of requiring immigrants to be able to support themselves financially.
美国人普遍同意,来我国的个人应该是自给自足的,73%的人赞成要求移民能够在经济上养活自己。
PRESERVING THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET: We must ensure that non-citizens do not abuse our public benefit programs and jeopardize the social safety net needed by vulnerable Americans.
保护社会安全系统:我们必须确保非公民不滥用我们的公共福利计划,并危及弱势美国人所需的社会安全系统。
- Large numbers of non-citizens and their families have taken advantage of our generous public benefits, limited resources that could otherwise go to vulnerable Americans.
大量的非公民及其家人利用了我们慷慨的公共福利和有限的资源,这些本来可以给与弱势的美国人。
- 78 percent of households headed by a non-citizen with no more than a high school education use at least one welfare program.
78%不超过高中教育的以非公民为户主的家庭,至少使用一种福利计划。
- 58 percent of all households headed by a non-citizen use at least one welfare program.
58%以非公民为户主的家庭使用至少一种福利计划。
- Half of all non-citizen headed households include at least one person who uses Medicaid.
有一半以非公民为户主的家庭中,至少有一名使用低收入医疗补助的人。