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.
近期在华盛顿举行的为期三天的移民听证会上，参议员们一直在反复讨论的精确数字并不十分恰当。美国的非法移民最终可能需要再等待13年才能成为合法公民。这段时间似乎很长，因为多数无证移民已经在美国逗留了十多年。他们可能还需要缴纳2000美元罚款。这点罚款似乎很少，按十年计算，这大致上就相当于每年一张超速罚单。
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