Border patrol
Speaker: Standard English
Sgt. B.P. Schneider: Standard American
B
.L. 1.
Answer this:
- Is there any difference between ‘immigrant’ and ‘emigrant’?
- Is immigration/ emigration an urgent problem in your country?
- What are the far-reaching consequences of immigration from Ukraine?
B.L. 2. What do you think makes people immigrate? Arrange the list of reasons in order of their importance:
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business; new job;
family reunion;
smuggling;
drug deals;
economic disparity;
force major circumstances,
natural disasters;
ecology (pollution);
wars;
change of atmosphere;
other (specify)
B.L. 3. Which of the following fit the immigrant category?
A refugee; a drug runner; an illegal alien; a visiting scientist; an exchange student; a deportee; an expatriate; a permanent resident; a drug trafficker.
BL. 4. Read the story which sheds light upon the situation on the U.S.-Mexican border. Fill in the blanks with the words following the story:
The figure of over a million illegal aliens ...1... along the 1,933-mile U.S.-Mexican border is certain to rise. Many of them will be caught crossing a 17-mile “hot” section of …2… south of San Diego.
Over one billion dollars worth of drugs, mostly …3… and …4…, were seized in Borer Patrol operations. Firearms are frequently used to protect the drugs and …5… arrest.
There was a brief …6… in border crossings following the introduction of the law in 1986 that punished employers who …7…hired illegal aliens. But the numbers have risen again since …8… in the law were discovered. All a Mexican immigrant needs to get a legal job is a U.S. …9… and a …10… . Those are notoriously simple …11… .A whole …12… industry has grown up to produce these …13… documents.
As long as the economic …14… between North and Central America remains at its present level *, the U.S. will continue to be an attractive option. In the past, most illegals were …15… who returned to Mexico with their savings. The Border Patrol is now intercepting more …16… , which suggests that their stay is more than just temporary.
*Mexicans can earn in a week what they would make in a year at home.
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apprehended
bogus
borderline
cocaine
disparity
downturn
driver’s license
to fake
garage
knowingly
loopholes
marijuana
resist
seasonal workers
social security number
women and children
BL. 5. Read this list of proper names before you listen to the story:
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Sgt. Schneider The Southern Pacific Police Morley Avenue Course Street Nogales Mexico The Central Americas |
South America Columbia Bolivia Peru The Berlin Wall Arizona Colonia Buenos Aires |
L. 1. Justine Radchliffe travelled to Arizona and the border town Nogales to spend a day with the Border Patrol unit stationed there. He accompanied shift sergeant B.P. Schneider on his afternoon rounds, which began at the rail yard.
Listen to their conversation and note down the 7 questions Sgt. Schneider was asked.
L. 2. Listen again to sum up Sgt. Schneider’s answers. Use the given key words:
To be grown; to tranship;
A brand new pistol; to become common; to get ripped off; to better one’s life; the standard of living; an anti-social person; to harm smb. physically; narcotics;
A guide; to charge people; to cross through; to own the hole;
To flank out of town; to find ways; to circumvent; a democracy;
To get along; a ball park figure; to get a criminal type; an offender;
Amount; evidence; alien smuggling; to have smth. beaten into one’s head; to convict; to threaten; to get caught by immigration;
The port of entry; a wanted felon; to interrogate smb.; to pull a gun on smb.; to hold smb. hostage; justifiable; to be wanted for; to make a desperate attempt.
R. 1. Write an article for the local paper. Report on the situation on the U.S.-Mexican border.