Translation
President Trump makes no secret of his distaste for immigrants, nor of his support for measures to slash both legal and illegal immigration. Even as his crusade to close borders intensifies, however, American employers in an array of industries — manufacturing, agriculture, trucking, home building, energy, food service, retail and others — are warning that a long-brewing labor shortage is reaching crisis proportions. The causes of America’s worker shortfall include an aging population and a birthrate that recently hit a historic low. With the jobless rate bumping along at just above 4 percent, companies desperate to fill orders and meet demand are pumping up their recruiting budgets and in some cases turning to ex-convicts to fill jobs. If the employee deficit seems bad now, signs indicate it will get worse — even as Mr. Trump orders stepped-up deportation efforts and pushes legislation to slash annual legal immigration, currently about 1 million, by half.
Reading Comprehension
Undocumented immigrants aren’t technically 3 for federal means-tested benefits like Medicaid and food stamps, and under the current version of the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill, previously undocumented immigrants with 4 legal status wouldn’t be eligible to receive those benefits either. Data from the 2010 American Community Survey does indicate that foreign-born individuals in the U.S. – meaning naturalized citizens as well as legal and undocumented residents – are more likely than natural-born Americans to lack a high school diploma or live below the poverty line, both indicators of dependency upon federal benefits. But while immigrants are more likely to be low-income and thus eligible for benefits, some studies dispute that immigrants actually access those benefits at a higher rate than their 5 in the native-born population. The government will also work to boost Britain's economic competitiveness so it can continue to succeed in the world. The government's 6 welfare reforms, affecting state help for the disabled and unemployed, have already been controversial in Britain, which is struggling with a large budget 7 .
The UK government has put immigration reform and the economy at the heart 8 its plans for the new parliamentary session. 9 the center of the government's legislative agenda is a new bill with tough new measures to continue immigration reform and prevent illegal immigrants accessing services they're not entitled to. The legislation will also contain measures to make it harder for people to prevent their removal with 10 appeals, reduce the complexity of immigration law and make clear that foreign national offenders should 11 , except in extraordinary circumstances. Measures to make deportation easier may also reflect the Home Office's long-running, and so far unsuccessful, efforts to deport radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada. A series of legal appeals have 12 the Jordanian national in the country.
