On Sept. 11,2001, America suffered the worst terrorist attacks in our history.
2001年9月11日，美国遭受了建国以来最严重的恐怖袭击。
The attacks were carried out by foreign nationals who exploited our lax immigration laws
那次袭击是外籍人员发动的，他们利用我们松懈的移民法的漏洞，
and defrauded our immigration system in order to murder nearly 3,000 innocent people.
并欺骗了我们的移民体系，最终令近3000无辜民众丧生。
Following the attacks, Congress placed most immigration enforcement functions within a new agency
在那场袭击后，美国国会将大多数移民执行职能授权于一个新机构，
known as the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, meaning ICE.
该机构被称为"美国移民和海关执法局"即ICE.
One of the critical lessons of 9/11 is that immigration enforcement saves lives.
911事件让我们得到的其中一个教训就是移民执法可以拯救生命。
We must enforce the rules against visa fraud, illegal overstay, illegal entry and other immigration violations and crimes
我们必须执行这些法则，对抗签证欺诈、非法逗留、非法入境和其它移民入侵和犯罪行为
and crimes they are, believe me, crimes they are.
这些的确是犯罪行为，相信我，真的是犯罪行为。