[ti:Immigrants Hopeful to Become Legal Citizens Under Biden]
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[00:01.56]President Biden has quickly moved to change U.S. immigration policy.
[00:08.60]Biden signed executive orders related to immigration on his first day in office.
[00:16.52]Among the orders is one that stops work on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
[00:24.36]Another ends a travel ban on people from several mostly Muslim countries.
[00:33.08]Biden also has ordered his Cabinet to work on ways
[00:38.24]to prevent the deportation, or removal
[00:41.72]from the country, of people brought to the U.S. as children.
[00:47.88]In addition, Biden said he wants to develop a plan to give citizenship
[00:53.84]to about 11 million people without legal status in the United States.
[01:01.12]"This sets a new narrative, moving us away from being seen
[01:06.16]as criminals and people on the public charge," said Yanira Arias.
[01:13.56]It opens the door for us to one day become Americans, she said.
[01:20.24]Arias is a Salvadoran immigrant with Temporary Protected Status.
[01:26.88]It is given to people who are temporarily prevented
[01:30.80]from returning to their countries safely.
[01:35.00]Arias lives in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory.
[01:40.84]She is among about 400,000 people given special status
[01:46.96]after fleeing violence or natural disasters.
[01:52.16]Arias is also a leader of national campaigns
[01:56.60]for Alianza Americas, an immigrant advocacy group.
[02:03.12]The most recent attempts at immigration reform have not succeeded.
[02:08.60]They happened in 2007 under former President George W. Bush
[02:15.64]and in 2013 under former President Barack Obama.
[02:22.60]Ofelia Aguilar watched Biden take office and give a speech on television
[02:29.36]with four other women farmworkers in Homestead, Florida.
[02:35.64]She said she believed immigration reform was possible.
[02:40.88]"There is hope!" Aguilar cried out after Biden was sworn in.
[02:46.80]"So many people have suffered," she said.
[02:50.44]Aguilar was pregnant and alone when she came to the U.S.
[02:55.48]from Mexico in 1993.
[03:00.32]She was a farm worker for years
[03:03.04]before starting her own business farming jicama root.
[03:09.12]Some of the farm workers at the small gathering
[03:12.44]said they were saddened that Biden did not talk
[03:16.36]about immigration in his speech.
[03:20.48]"I have faith in God, not in presidents," said Sofía Hernández.
[03:28.04]She is a farmworker who has lived in the United States
[03:32.76]without legal status since 1989.
[03:37.96]Hernandez came from Mexico seeking economic opportunity.
[03:45.24]Her three children were born in the U.S. and she would send money
[03:50.28]to her family back home before her parents died.
[03:56.28]"My dream is to go and see my family
[03:59.64]and come back to stay with my children," Hernandez said.
[04:05.92]In New York, Blanca Cedillos said she also was unhappy
[04:11.88]that Biden did not talk about immigration.
[04:16.44]She watched the speech with six other immigrants
[04:20.12]at the Workers Justice Project, a nonprofit organization.
[04:26.68]The Salvadoran woman lost her job taking care of children
[04:31.80]during the coronavirus pandemic.
[04:35.76]Now, she cleans houses and gets food donations
[04:40.12]from a nonprofit that serves immigrants.
[04:44.88]Cedillos has lived in the U.S. without legal documents for 18 years.
[04:52.80]She hopes to one day visit her four children in Central America,
[04:58.44]then return legally to the U.S.
[05:03.24]Building worker Gustavo Ajché
[05:06.32]watched a Spanish language broadcast of Biden's speech with Cedillos.
[05:13.40]Ajché came to the U.S. from Guatemala in 2004.
[05:20.92]"I don't want to get too excited because I might get frustrated afterward," Ajché said.
[05:28.80]"I have been here many years. I have paid my taxes.
[05:32.92]I am hoping something will be done."
[05:37.08]Tony Valdovinos is a campaign advisor in Phoenix, Arizona.
[05:44.28]He said he is not celebrating.
[05:47.28]He is among those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
[05:56.08]The program protects immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from being deported.
[06:04.52]"It's hard to put your heart into it when these things have failed in the past," he said.
[06:12.64]Maria Rodriguez is director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition in Miami.
[06:21.00]"I'm so happy and relieved, but we are still afraid
[06:25.64]of getting our hearts broken again," she said.
[06:29.24]"We've been through this so many times."
[06:33.60]Los Angeles janitor Anabella Aguirre thinks about her daughters and herself.
[06:41.88]Both daughters are in the DACA program and now starting jobs.
[06:48.76]"Like thousands of mothers and fathers, I want for my daughters
[06:53.08]to have something better in this country," Aguirre said.
[06:58.24]I'm Alice Bryant. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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