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Representative, my name is Regina Vellamasta and I'm a graduate student at the Harris School of Public Policy.
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As a Latina and a former waitress and bartender,
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it's such an inspiration and an honor to hear you speak.
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My question is about immigration.
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A record 45 billion has gone into immigration enforcement.
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How will the average American family benefit from this investment and how do Democrats shape immigration reform moving forward?
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I think we're hard pressed to see how the average American's going to benefit from rounding up innocent people,
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building a mass surveillance state,
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giving impunity to folks that are shooting Americans dead in the street.
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We need to abolish ICE.
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And I can't tell you how the average American's gonna benefit from it,
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but I can tell you how we are gonna pay the price.
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We're gonna pay the price
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because a trillion dollars was gutted out of our healthcare care system to pay for an extrajudicial force
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that is building a mass surveillance database of everyday Americans,
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scanning your face, observing your online activity,
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looking at your purchases without so much as a judicial warrant when they decide to bust into people's houses.
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But on a deeper level,
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what this is going to cost us also in our economic outlook and our humanity.
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First in our economic outlook,
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one of the only reasons that the United States
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outperformed the rest of the developed world in terms of how we weathered the COVID pandemic,
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because while it was hard for us,
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the rest of the world had it way worse.
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And one of the only reasons that we fared the way that we did was because of immigrants.
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When you think about how immigrants show up in your life,
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whether they are your friends,
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your co-workers, etc. Our health care system stands to collapse without immigrants.
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Our food system stands to collapse.
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Our housing system stands to collapse.
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That's the economic point.
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Then there is the human point.
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What is it costing us?
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as human beings and as a society,
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to look the other way when women and children and innocent people and young men of promise
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are ripped off the street and thrown into a van and disappeared and you never see them again.
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There's what that costs them,
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but think about what it costs you to look the other way.
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What does it cost us as a society that starts to normalize looking the other way?
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Then we start looking the other way as women bleed out in parking lots in states that have banned abortion.
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We start looking the other way as VRA districts start to get stripped out of our Congress.
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We start looking the other way as the free press becomes consumed
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and intimidated by the very powers that they exist to check.
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What does it cost us and you as a human being to look the other way?
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And so there's the economic cost.
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your health care is going up long term care for our parents
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and grandparents are going to skyrocket it is costing us it's already costing us
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and then there's what does it cost our soul and that you know in a political context people think that that's
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naive flowery talk I don't think it is
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because what is all of this for
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if it is not to live a dignified life in a community and country of integrity.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau C2 is gebaseerd op de video “We need to Abolish ICE”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: cost, economic, costing, collapse, immigrants. Deze video bevat 51 zinnen en 570 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:59. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 114 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
immigrant zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/inwijkeling, ingewekene
abolish werkwoord/əˈbɑl.ɪʃ/afschaffen, opheffen
extrajudicial bijvoeglijk naamwoordbuitengerechtelijke
grandparent zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/grootouder
impunity zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪmˈpjuːnɪti/straffeloosheid
intimidate werkwoord/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/intimideren, inschuchteren
normalize werkwoord/ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/normaliseren
bartender zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbɑɹˌtɛndɚ/kastelein
waitress zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/serveerster
bleed werkwoord/ˈbliːd/bloeden
naive bijvoeglijk naamwoord/naɪˈiv/naïef, tegen beter weten in
consume werkwoord/kənˈsum/consumeren, verbruiken
fare zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfɛə/veergeld, veerloon
gut zelfstandig naamwoord/ɡʌt/buik
bust werkwoord/bʌst/breken

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telthas gone · have banned
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetwas gutted · are ripped

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 8 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals gonna, we're, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: impunity /ɪmˈpjuːnɪti/, intimidate /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: dignified /ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪd/, normalize /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/, bleed /ˈbliːd/, naive /naɪˈiv/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, scan /skæn/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: immigrant /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/, dignified /ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪd/, grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, gut /ɡʌt/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als immigrant, abolish, extrajudicial.

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