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More than 50 million international migrants lived in the US in 2020, according to a bureau research report, more than in any other country.
根据统计局的一份研究报告，2020年有超过5000万国际移民居住在美国，比其他任何国家都多。
Migration is part of the American experience and for decades migrants entered the US through Ellis island in New York harbor.
移民是美国经历的一部分，几十年来，移民通过纽约港的埃利斯岛进入美国。
They checked your health, they checked, then they had a series of 20 questions and those changed over the years, right.
他们检查了你的健康状况，检查完这个，然后会问20个一连串的问题，这些问题会随着时间的推移而变更。
Jerry Willis is a spokesman for what is now the Ellis island national museum of immigration.
杰里·威利斯是现在埃利斯岛国家移民博物馆的发言人。
At the turn of the 20th century, Ellis island was America's busiest immigration inspection and processing station.
在20世纪初，埃利斯岛是美国最繁忙的移民检查和处理站。
During its operation from 1892 to 1954, more than 12 million immigrants entered the US through Ellis island.
从1892年到1954年，超过1200万移民通过埃利斯岛进入美国。
In 1907 the island's busiest year, a million people entered the US through its processing station.
1907年是岛上最繁忙的一年，有100万人通过这里的移民处理站进入美国。
Back then, immigrants rarely spent more than a few hours entering the US.
当时，移民进入美国需要花费的时间很少超过几个小时。
Willis says they answered a few questions which changed over time.
威利斯说，他们回答了几个问题，随着时间推移会更换的问题。
During the peak years, anarchists were a big concern, like anarchists coming from Europe to this country so one of the questions would be are you an anarchist?
在移民高峰时期，无政府主义者是一个大问题，就比如来自欧洲的无政府主义者会来到这个国家，所以其中一个问题是：你是无政府主义者吗?
But that was about it, says Sarah Seidman who works at the Museum of the City of New York.
但在纽约市博物馆工作的萨拉·塞德曼说，仅此而已。
Up until the 1880s it was really just, if you got here then you could apply for citizenship.
19世纪80年代及以前，一旦你来到这里，你就可以申请公民身份。
Over time the process grew much more complicated, Seidman says.
塞德曼说，随着时间的推移，这个过程变得越来越复杂。
In 1924 add quotas for different groups and then in 1965 really they take away the quotas but there's a lot, I think, more paperwork required after that.
1924年增加了不同群体的配额，然后在1965年取消了配额，但在那之后要求提供更多的文书。
So that's really probably the beginning of the modern immigration era where more people from around the world are coming in, but there's a lot more bureaucracy and levels of, like how to become a legal immigrant.
所以这很可能是现代移民时代的开端，来自世界各地的人越来越多，但是有更多的官僚作风主义和不同的标准，比如如何成为合法移民。
