VOA常速英语:Honduran Migrant Caravan Marches Toward Mexico

Determined to find a better future, more than 3,000 Honduran migrants continued to walk through Central America toward the US. Members of the migrant caravan of migrants say they desperately need help and work. We cry because we are mothers who left our children. Walking this road is a way to ask governments to help us.
为了寻找更美好的未来，3000多名洪都拉斯移民不断穿过中美洲地区前往美国。移民列车的成员们说，他们迫切需要帮助、需要工作。我们之所以哭，是因为我们被迫离开了自己的孩子。我们选择走这条路是想请求政府帮助我们。

The migrants hope they will get support from the Mexican and Guatemalan governments. The Honduran government in an effort to reduce the number of migrants offers help to people willing to go back to their country.The Honduran foreign ministry told VOA by a Skype that the caravan was organized by political organizations offering false hopes. This was done to affect our governability, the image, the good name, and stability that we have in our country.
移民们希望他们能得到墨西哥政府和危地马拉政府的支持，洪都拉斯政府正在努力减少移民人数，向愿意回国的人提供帮助。洪都拉斯外交部通过Skype对美国之音表示，这种移民列车是由政治部门组织的，他们给这些移民提供的都是不可能实现的愿望。这样做是为了影响我们国家的执政能力、形象、良好的声誉和政治稳定性。

A legal expert told VOA the so called immigrant walk reflects a population without opportunities. He says there is no guarantee they can stay in the United States and work. Poverty, the lack of employment or gangs are not reasons to ask for political asylum when people arrive to the border. 98 percent of Hondurans who asked for the political asylum will not get it.What that means is that the vast majority of the people walking will be detained.
一位法律专家告诉美国之音，所谓的移民迁徙实际上反映出这群人很难得到机会。他说，根本不能保证他们能留在美国工作。贫穷、缺乏就业或拉帮结派并不是人们抵达边境时要求政治庇护的理由。百分之九十八要求政治庇护的洪都拉斯人将得不到政治庇护，这意味着绝大多数移民迁徙的人将被拘留。

Some migrants hold signs that say if Americans are allowed in Honduras, Hondurans also have the right to go to the US. We are young and we need to study and we know that in Honduras, we cannot have that.We don’t have a job that will allow us to support our families. The caravan comes days after Washington hosted the Honduran President and other regional leaders to discuss immigration. Honduras requested help from the US to ease a return of 57,000 of its citizens who will lose their ability to stay and work in the US illegally when Honduras temporary protective status expires in January 2020.
一些移民举着这样的标语：如果美国人有权进入洪都拉斯，那么洪都拉斯人也有权利来到美国。我们还年轻，我们需要学习。我们知道在洪都拉斯，我们没有这样的机会，没有一份可以养家糊口的工作。几天前，华盛顿接待了洪都拉斯总统和其他地区领导人，讨论移民问题。洪都拉斯请求美国帮助其5.7万名公民回国，在洪都拉斯临时保护状态于2020年一月截止后，这些人将失去在美国非法居住和工作的能力。

Miguel Amaya, Christina Casio Schmitt VOA news
美国之音记者米格尔·阿马亚、克莉丝汀·卡西欧·施密特报道