Well. It is good to be back in Las Vegas. And it is good to be among so many good friends. 好了。很高兴回到拉斯维加斯，也很高兴与这么多好朋友相聚。
Let me start off by thanking everybody at Del Sol High School for hosting us. Go Dragons! Let me especially thank your outstanding principal, Lisa Primas. 先让我感谢德尔索尔高中接待我们。龙队加油！尤其感谢你们出色的校长丽莎·普里马斯。
There are all kinds of notable guests here, but I just want to mention a few. First of all, our outstanding Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, is here. Our wonderful Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar. Former Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis. Two of the outstanding members of the congressional delegation from Nevada, Steve Horsford and Dina Titus. Your own mayor, Carolyn Goodman. 这里有许多杰出嘉宾，我只想点名几位：国土安全部长珍妮特·纳波利塔诺、内政部长肯·萨拉查、前劳工部长希尔达·索利斯、内华达州国会代表史蒂夫·霍斯福德和迪娜·提图斯，以及你们的市长卡罗琳·古德曼。
But we also have some mayors that flew in because they know how important the issue we’re going to talk about today is. Marie Lopez Rogers from Avondale, Arizona. Kasim Reed from Atlanta, Georgia. Greg Stanton from Phoenix, Arizona. And Ashley Swearengin from Fresno, California. 还有专程飞来的市长，因为他们知道今天议题的重要性：亚利桑那州阿文代尔的玛丽·洛佩兹·罗杰斯、佐治亚州亚特兰大的卡西姆·里德、凤凰城的格雷格·斯坦顿和加州弗雷斯诺的阿什莉·斯韦伦金。
And all of you are here, as well as some of the top labor leaders in the country. And we are just so grateful. Some outstanding business leaders are here as well. And of course, we’ve got wonderful students here, so I could not be prouder of our students. 各位都来了，还有全国顶尖劳工领袖，我们深表感激。也有杰出的商界领袖在场。当然还有优秀学生，我为他们无比自豪。
Now, those of you have a seat, feel free to take a seat. I don’t mind. 已经坐着的各位，尽管坐着，我不介意。
Audience Member: I love you, Mr. President! 观众：总统先生，我爱你！
President Obama: I love you back. 奥巴马总统：我也爱你。
Now, last week, I had the honor of being sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. And during my inaugural address, I talked about how making progress on the defining challenges of our time doesn’t require us to settle every debate or ignore every difference that we may have, but it does require us to find common ground and move forward in common purpose. It requires us to act. 上周，我有幸宣誓就任美国总统第二任期。在就职演说中我说，推进时代决定性的挑战，不需要解决每场争论或忽略每种分歧，但需要找到共同点，为共同目标前进。它要求我们行动。
I know that some issues will be harder to lift than others. Some debates will be more contentious. That’s to be expected. But the reason I came here today is because of a challenge where the differences are dwindling; where a broad consensus is emerging; and where a call for action can now be heard coming from all across America. I’m here today because the time has come for common-sense, comprehensive immigration reform. The time is now. Now is the time. Now is the time. Now is the time. 我知道有些议题更难推进，有些辩论更激烈，这在预料之中。但我今天来此，是因为一项挑战的分歧正缩小，广泛共识正在形成，行动呼声已遍及全美。我来到这里，是因为常识性的全面移民改革时机已到。就是现在。现在就是时机。现在就是时机。现在就是时机。
Audience: Sí se puede! Sí se puede! 观众：我们能做到！我们能做到！
President Obama: Now is the time. 奥巴马总统：现在就是时机。
I’m here because most Americans agree that it’s time to fix a system that’s been broken for way too long. I’m here because business leaders, faith leaders, labor leaders, law enforcement, and leaders from both parties are coming together to say now is the time to find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as the land of opportunity. Now is the time to do this so we can strengthen our economy and strengthen our country’s future. 我来此是因为多数美国人同意，该修复一个破损太久的制度。商界、宗教界、劳工界、执法界及两党领袖正在共同表示：该以更好的方式欢迎仍将美国视为机会之地、努力而充满希望的移民。我们应这样强化经济和国家未来。
Think about it -- we define ourselves as a nation of immigrants. That’s who we are -- in our bones. The promise we see in those who come here from every corner of the globe, that’s always been one of our greatest strengths. It keeps our workforce young. It keeps our country on the cutting edge. And it’s helped build the greatest economic engine the world has ever known. 想想看——我们把自己定义为移民国家。这是我们的本色，深入骨髓。我们从世界各地来者身上看到的希望，一直是我们最大的力量之一。它让劳动力年轻，使国家保持前沿，并帮助打造世界前所未有的伟大经济引擎。
After all, immigrants helped start businesses like Google and Yahoo!. They created entire new industries that, in turn, created new jobs and new prosperity for our citizens. In recent years, one in four high-tech startups in America were founded by immigrants. One in four new small business owners were immigrants, including right here in Nevada -- folks who came here seeking opportunity and now want to share that opportunity with other Americans. 移民曾帮助创办谷歌和雅虎等企业，开创新产业，继而为公民创造就业和繁荣。近年，美国每四家高科技初创企业就有一家由移民创办；每四名新小企业主就有一名是移民，包括内华达州的人——他们来此寻求机会，如今想与其他美国人分享机会。
But we all know that today, we have an immigration system that’s out of date and badly broken; a system that’s holding us back instead of helping us grow our economy and strengthen our middle class. 但我们都知道，今天的移民制度已经过时、严重失灵；它没有帮助经济发展和中产阶级壮大，反而拖住了我们。
Right now, we have 11 million undocumented immigrants in America; 11 million men and women from all over the world who live their lives in the shadows. Yes, they broke the rules. They crossed the border illegally. Maybe they overstayed their visas. Those are facts. Nobody disputes them. 目前美国有一千一百万无证移民；他们来自世界各地，在阴影中生活。是的，他们违反规则，非法越境，或许还逾期滞留。这些是事实，无人否认。
But these 11 million men and women are now here. Many of them have been here for years. And the overwhelming majority of these individuals aren’t looking for any trouble. They’re contributing members of the community. They're looking out for their families. They're looking out for their neighbors. They're woven into the fabric of our lives. 但这一千一百万人现在已经在这里。许多人已居住多年，绝大多数并非要惹麻烦；他们为社区作贡献，照顾家人和邻居，已织入我们生活的纹理。
Every day, like the rest of us, they go out and try to earn a living. Often they do that in a shadow economy -- a place where employers may offer them less than the minimum wage or make them work overtime without extra pay. And when that happens, it’s not just bad for them, it’s bad for the entire economy. 每天，他们和我们一样外出谋生，常在影子经济中工作——雇主可能支付低于最低工资的报酬，或要求加班却不付额外工资。这不仅伤害他们，也伤害整个经济。
Because all the businesses that are trying to do the right thing -- that are hiring people legally, paying a decent wage, following the rules -- they’re the ones who suffer. They've got to compete against companies that are breaking the rules. And the wages and working conditions of American workers are threatened, too. 因为努力做对事的企业——合法雇人、支付体面工资、遵守规则的企业——会受害。他们必须和违法公司竞争，美国工人的工资和劳动条件也受到威胁。
So if we're truly committed to strengthening our middle class and providing more ladders of opportunity to those who are willing to work hard to make it into the middle class, we've got to fix the system. 因此，如果真心致力于壮大中产阶级，为愿努力跻身中产阶级的人提供更多机会阶梯，我们就必须修复制度。
We have to make sure that every business and every worker in America is playing by the same set of rules. We have to bring this shadow economy into the light so that everybody is held accountable -- businesses for who they hire, and immigrants for getting on the right side of the law. That’s common sense. And that’s why we need comprehensive immigration reform. 必须确保美国每家企业、每位劳动者遵守同一套规则。必须把影子经济带到阳光下，让人人负责——企业为雇用谁负责，移民为回到法律正轨负责。这是常识，也正是全面移民改革的原因。
There’s another economic reason why we need reform. It’s not just about the folks who come here illegally and have the effect they have on our economy. It’s also about the folks who try to come here legally but have a hard time doing so, and the effect that has on our economy. 改革还有另一个经济理由。这不仅关乎非法来美者及其经济影响，也关乎试图合法来美却困难重重的人，以及由此造成的经济影响。
Right now, there are brilliant students from all over the world sitting in classrooms at our top universities. They’re earning degrees in the fields of the future, like engineering and computer science. But once they finish school, once they earn that diploma, there’s a good chance they’ll have to leave our country. Think about that. 现在，世界各地优秀学生在顶尖大学课堂中学习工程、计算机科学等未来领域。他们毕业拿到文凭后，很可能必须离开美国。想想看。
Intel was started with the help of an immigrant who studied here and then stayed here. Instagram was started with the help of an immigrant who studied here and then stayed here. Right now in one of those classrooms, there’s a student wrestling with how to turn their big idea -- their Intel or Instagram -- into a big business. 英特尔的创办得到过一名在此求学后留下的移民帮助；照片墙社交平台也是如此。现在，其中一间教室里，正有学生琢磨如何将自己的伟大创意——自己的英特尔或照片墙——变成大企业。
We’re giving them all the skills they need to figure that out, but then we’re going to turn around and tell them to start that business and create those jobs in China or India or Mexico or someplace else? That’s not how you grow new industries in America. That’s how you give new industries to our competitors. That’s why we need comprehensive immigration reform. 我们给他们解决问题所需的一切技能，却又告诉他们去中国、印度、墨西哥或别处创办企业、创造就业？这不是让新产业在美国成长，而是把产业送给竞争者。这就是需要全面移民改革的原因。
Now, during my first term, we took steps to try and patch up some of the worst cracks in the system. 第一个任期内，我们尝试修补制度最严重的裂缝。
First, we strengthened security at the borders so that we could finally stem the tide of illegal immigrants. We put more boots on the ground on the southern border than at any time in our history. And today, illegal crossings are down nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000. 第一，我们加强边境安全，终于遏制非法移民潮。我们在南部边境部署的一线人员比历史上任何时候都多。今天非法越境人数已比2000年峰值下降近80%。
Second, we focused our enforcement efforts on criminals who are here illegally and who endanger our communities. And today, deportations of criminals is at its highest level ever. 第二，我们把执法重点放在非法滞留且危害社区的罪犯身上。如今，对犯罪人员的遣返数量达到历史最高水平。
And third, we took up the cause of the DREAMers -- the young people who were brought to this country as children, young people who have grown up here, built their lives here, have futures here. We said that if you’re able to meet some basic criteria like pursuing an education, then we’ll consider offering you the chance to come out of the shadows so that you can live here and work here legally, so that you can finally have the dignity of knowing you belong. 第三，我们支持“追梦者”——儿时被带来、在这里长大、建立生活并拥有未来的年轻人。我们说，若你满足继续教育等基本条件，将考虑给予走出阴影的机会，使你能在此合法生活和工作，终于有尊严地知道自己属于这里。
But because this change isn’t permanent, we need Congress to act -- and not just on the DREAM Act. We need Congress to act on a comprehensive approach that finally deals with the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are in the country right now. That's what we need. 但这一改变并非永久性，我们需要国会行动——不只是针对《梦想法案》。国会必须采取全面方案，最终处理目前在美国的一千一百万无证移民。这正是我们需要的。
Now, the good news is that for the first time in many years, Republicans and Democrats seem ready to tackle this problem together. Members of both parties, in both chambers, are actively working on a solution. Yesterday, a bipartisan group of senators announced their principles for comprehensive immigration reform, which are very much in line with the principles I’ve proposed and campaigned on for the last few years. So at this moment, it looks like there’s a genuine desire to get this done soon, and that’s very encouraging. 好消息是，多年来第一次，共和党人与民主党人似乎准备共同解决此问题。两党在参众两院的议员都在积极制定方案。昨天，一个跨党派参议员小组公布全面移民改革原则，与我近年提出并为之竞选的原则非常一致。因此现在看来，确有尽快完成此事的愿望，这令人鼓舞。
But this time, action must follow. We can't allow immigration reform to get bogged down in an endless debate. We've been debating this a very long time. So it's not as if we don't know technically what needs to get done. As a consequence, to help move this process along, today I’m laying out my ideas for immigration reform. 但这次必须以行动跟进。不能让移民改革陷入无尽辩论。我们已辩论很久，并非不知道技术上该做什么。因此，为帮助推进进程，今天我将提出自己的移民改革构想。
And my hope is that this provides some key markers to members of Congress as they craft a bill, because the ideas I’m proposing have traditionally been supported by both Democrats like Ted Kennedy and Republicans like President George W. Bush. You don't get that matchup very often. So we know where the consensus should be. 我希望这能为国会议员起草法案提供关键标尺，因为这些理念历来既获泰德·肯尼迪等民主党人支持，也获乔治·W·布什总统等共和党人支持。这样的组合并不常见。因此我们知道共识应在何处。
Now, of course, there will be rigorous debate about many of the details, and every stakeholder should engage in real give and take in the process. But it’s important for us to recognize that the foundation for bipartisan action is already in place. And if Congress is unable to move forward in a timely fashion, I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away. 当然，许多细节将经历严肃辩论，每个利益相关方都应真正互相让步。但须认识到，两党行动的基础已具备。如果国会不能及时推进，我会提交一项基于本提案的法案，并坚持要求立即表决。
So the principles are pretty straightforward. There are a lot of details behind it. We're going to hand out a bunch of paper so that everybody will know exactly what we're talking about. But the principles are pretty straightforward. 原则很直接，背后有很多细节。我们会发材料，让大家确切了解所谈内容。但原则很直接。
First, I believe we need to stay focused on enforcement. That means continuing to strengthen security at our borders. It means cracking down more forcefully on businesses that knowingly hire undocumented workers. To be fair, most businesses want to do the right thing, but a lot of them have a hard time figuring out who’s here legally, who’s not. So we need to implement a national system that allows businesses to quickly and accurately verify someone’s employment status. And if they still knowingly hire undocumented workers, then we need to ramp up the penalties. 第一，我相信必须继续聚焦执法：继续强化边境安全，更有力打击明知故犯、雇用无证工人的企业。公平而言，多数企业想做正确的事，但不少企业难以判断谁合法居留。因此需要全国制度，让企业快速准确核实某人的就业资格；若仍明知雇用无证工人，就应加重处罚。
Second, we have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. We all agree that these men and women should have to earn their way to citizenship. But for comprehensive immigration reform to work, it must be clear from the outset that there is a pathway to citizenship. 第二，必须处理在此非法居留的一千一百万人。我们都同意，他们必须靠努力赢得公民身份。但全面移民改革要奏效，从开始就必须明确存在一条通向公民身份的道路。
We’ve got to lay out a path -- a process that includes passing a background check, paying taxes, paying a penalty, learning English, and then going to the back of the line, behind all the folks who are trying to come here legally. That's only fair, right? 必须规划这条道路——通过背景审查、缴税、缴罚金、学习英语，随后排到队尾，排在所有试图合法来美者之后。这才公平，对吧？
So that means it won’t be a quick process but it will be a fair process. And it will lift these individuals out of the shadows and give them a chance to earn their way to a green card and eventually to citizenship. 这不会很快，但会公平。它会让这些人走出阴影，给他们靠自身努力取得绿卡、最终获得公民身份的机会。
And the third principle is we’ve got to bring our legal immigration system into the 21st century because it no longer reflects the realities of our time. For example, if you are a citizen, you shouldn’t have to wait years before your family is able to join you in America. You shouldn't have to wait years. 第三，必须让合法移民制度进入二十一世纪，因为它不再反映当下现实。比如，作为公民，你不应在家人能来美团聚前等待数年；你不该等上数年。
If you’re a foreign student who wants to pursue a career in science or technology, or a foreign entrepreneur who wants to start a business with the backing of American investors, we should help you do that here. Because if you succeed, you’ll create American businesses and American jobs. You’ll help us grow our economy. You’ll help us strengthen our middle class. 如果你是希望从事科学或技术职业的外国学生，或是想在美国投资者支持下创业的外国企业家，我们应帮助你在这里做到。因为一旦成功，你会创办美国企业、创造美国工作，帮助经济增长、壮大中产阶级。
So that’s what comprehensive immigration reform looks like: smarter enforcement; a pathway to earned citizenship; improvements in the legal immigration system so that we continue to be a magnet for the best and the brightest all around the world. It’s pretty straightforward. 这就是全面移民改革：更聪明的执法；靠努力获得公民身份的道路；改进合法移民制度，使我们继续吸引全球最优秀、最聪明的人才。很直接。
The question now is simple: Do we have the resolve as a people, as a country, as a government to finally put this issue behind us? I believe that we do. I believe that we do. I believe we are finally at a moment where comprehensive immigration reform is within our grasp. 现在问题很简单：作为人民、国家和政府，我们有没有决心终于把此事抛在身后？我相信有。我相信有。我相信我们终于来到全面移民改革触手可及的时刻。
But I promise you this: The closer we get, the more emotional this debate is going to become. Immigration has always been an issue that enflames passions. That’s not surprising. There are few things that are more important to us as a society than who gets to come here and call our country home; who gets the privilege of becoming a citizen of the United States of America. That's a big deal. 但我保证：越接近目标，辩论越情绪化。移民一直会点燃激情，这不意外。对社会来说，很少有事情比谁能来这里、把国家称作家园，谁有幸成为美国公民，更重要。这是大事。
When we talk about that in the abstract, it’s easy sometimes for the discussion to take on a feeling of “us” versus “them.” And when that happens, a lot of folks forget that most of “us” used to be “them.” We forget that. 抽象地谈论此事时，讨论有时很容易成为“我们”对“他们”。而一旦如此，许多人便忘了，大多数“我们”曾经是“他们”。我们忘记了。
It’s really important for us to remember our history. Unless you’re one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. 记住历史至关重要。除非你是最早的美国人之一、原住民，否则你来自别处。是有人把你带来的。
Ken Salazar, he’s of Mexican American descent, but he points that his family has been living where he lives for 400 years, so he didn't immigrate anywhere. 肯·萨拉查是墨西哥裔美国人，但他指出，他的家族已在居住地生活四百年，所以并没有移民到任何地方。
The Irish who left behind a land of famine. The Germans who fled persecution. The Scandinavians who arrived eager to pioneer out west. The Polish. The Russians. The Italians. The Chinese. The Japanese. The West Indians. The huddled masses who came through Ellis Island on one coast and Angel Island on the other. All those folks, before they were “us,” they were “them.” 离开饥荒之地的爱尔兰人，逃离迫害的德国人，渴望开拓西部的斯堪的纳维亚人，波兰人、俄国人、意大利人、中国人、日本人、西印度群岛人；还有从一岸埃利斯岛、另一岸天使岛入境的芸芸众生。成为“我们”前，他们都是“他们”。
And when each new wave of immigrants arrived, they faced resistance from those who were already here. They faced hardship. They faced racism. They faced ridicule. But over time, as they went about their daily lives, as they earned a living, as they raised a family, as they built a community, as their kids went to school here, they did their part to build a nation. 每波新移民到来时，都遭到已在此者抵制，经历艰辛、种族主义和嘲弄。但随着时间推移，当他们过日子、谋生、养家、建设社区、让孩子在此上学时，他们尽责建设国家。
They were the Einsteins and the Carnegies. But they were also the millions of women and men whose names history may not remember, but whose actions helped make us who we are; who built this country hand by hand, brick by brick. They all came here knowing that what makes somebody an American is not just blood or birth, but allegiance to our founding principles and the faith in the idea that anyone from anywhere can write the next great chapter of our story. 有爱因斯坦和卡内基，也有数百万历史未必记住姓名的男女；他们的行动帮助造就今天的我们，一双手一双手、一块砖一块砖建设国家。他们都知道，成为美国人不只在于血缘或出生，而在于忠于建国原则，相信任何人从任何地方都能写下美国故事的下一个伟大篇章。
And that’s still true today. Just ask Alan Aleman. Alan is here this afternoon -- where is Alan? He's around here -- there he is right here. Alan was born in Mexico. He was brought to this country by his parents when he was a child. Growing up, Alan went to an American school, pledged allegiance to the American flag, felt American in every way -- and he was, except for one: on paper. 今天依然如此。问问阿兰·阿莱曼。阿兰今天下午在这里——他在哪？就在附近——就在这里。阿兰生于墨西哥，儿时被父母带到美国。他在美国学校成长，向美国国旗宣誓效忠，方方面面都感觉是美国人——也确实如此，只有在文件上例外。
In high school, Alan watched his friends come of age -- driving around town with their new licenses, earning some extra cash from their summer jobs at the mall. He knew he couldn’t do those things. But it didn’t matter that much. What mattered to Alan was earning an education so that he could live up to his God-given potential. 高中时，阿兰看朋友成年：拿新驾照开车在城里转，在商场做暑期工作赚零用钱。他知道自己不能这样，但这不太重要。对他最重要的是受教育，实现上天赋予的潜能。
Last year, when Alan heard the news that we were going to offer a chance for folks like him to emerge from the shadows -- even if it's just for two years at a time -- he was one of the first to sign up. And a few months ago he was one of the first people in Nevada to get approved. In that moment, Alan said, “I felt the fear vanish. I felt accepted.” 去年，阿兰得知我们将给像他一样的人走出阴影的机会——即使一次仅两年——他是最早报名的人之一。数月前，他也是内华达州最早获批者之一。那一刻，他说：“我感到恐惧消失了。我感到被接纳。”
So today, Alan is in his second year at the College of Southern Nevada. Alan is studying to become a doctor. He hopes to join the Air Force. He’s working hard every single day to build a better life for himself and his family. And all he wants is the opportunity to do his part to build a better America. 今天，阿兰正在南内华达学院读二年级，学习成为医生，希望加入空军。他每天努力为自己与家人创造更好生活，所希望的只是有机会尽自己一份力，建设更好的美国。
So in the coming weeks, as the idea of reform becomes more real and the debate becomes more heated, and there are folks who are trying to pull this thing apart, remember Alan and all those who share the same hopes and the same dreams. Remember that this is not just a debate about policy. It’s about people. It’s about men and women and young people who want nothing more than the chance to earn their way into the American story. 所以未来数周，改革构想更现实、辩论更激烈，也会有人试图把这件事拆散；请记住阿兰和所有怀有同样希望梦想的人。请记住，这不仅是政策辩论，而是关于人，关于只希望有机会靠自己融入美国故事的男女与年轻人。
Throughout our history, that has only made our nation stronger. And it’s how we will make sure that this century is the same as the last: an American century welcoming of everybody who aspires to do something more, and who is willing to work hard to do it, and is willing to pledge that allegiance to our flag. 纵观历史，这只会让国家更强。这也是我们确保本世纪与上世纪一样的方式：一个欢迎所有希望有所作为、愿努力实现目标、愿向国旗宣誓效忠之人的美国世纪。
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. 谢谢。愿上帝保佑你们，愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。