There is an unseemly precision to the numbers that senators have been batting around in three days of immigration hearings in Washington this week. Immigrants now in the US illegally could end up waiting 13 years to become citizens. That seems a long time, since most of those without papers have already been in America for more than a decade. They would also owe a $2,000 fine. That seems low, since over a decade it comes to roughly the cost of a speeding ticket each year.
近期在華盛頓舉行的爲期三天的移民聽證會上，參議員們一直在反覆討論的精確數字並不十分恰當。美國的非法移民最終可能需要再等待13年才能成爲合法公民。這段時間似乎很長，因爲多數無證移民已經在美國逗留了十多年。他們可能還需要繳納2000美元罰款。這點罰款似乎很少，按十年計算，這大致上就相當於每年一張超速罰單。
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