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In the past, foreign workers and their remittances got scant policy attention. Thats not the case anymore. Immigration has become a major domestic and foreign-policy issue from Paris to Manila to Mexico City. Many developing countries, who have come to depend on remittances as a vital source of external finance, are pushing a pro-migration agenda. For good reason: Polish seasonal workers, for example, who harvest grapes in France, apples in Switzerland and asparagus in Germany help ease pressure on their countrys 18 percent unemployment rate. scant [sk?nt] adj. 不足的；缺乏的；勉强够的 vt. 减少；节省；限制 Manila [m?n?l?] n. 马尼拉（菲律宾首都） vital [va?t(?)l] adj. 至关重要的；生死攸关的；有活力的 agenda [?d?end?] n.议程；日常工作事项 harvest [hɑ?v?st] vt. 收割；得到n. 收获；产量；结果 asparagus [?sp?r?g?s] n. 芦笋；龙须菜；天冬 Advanced nations are trying to balance their need for young workers with avoiding a massive influx of outsiders that might overwhelm their social systems. Last week French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy paid a visit to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Their conversation centered on the surge of illegal Chinese immigrants into France in recent years. massive [m?s?v]adj. 大量的；巨大的，厚重的；魁伟的 influx [?nfl?ks] n. 流入；汇集；河流的汇集处 outsiders n. [劳经] 局外人，外来者（outsider复数形式） French Interior Minister 法国内政部长 pay a visit to v.去参观，拜访; 探望; 省视; center on 以…为中心; 重点在于…，主要与…有关 surge [s??d?] n. 汹涌；大浪，波涛；v. 汹涌；蜂拥而来 Mexican President Vicente Fox has made immigration a cornerstone of his foreign policy. His government has been strenuously lobbying the United States to loosen its immigration policy, which has been greatly tightened for security reasons, and to grant amnesty to the roughly 4 million undocumented Mexican workers in America. cornerstone [k??n?st??n]n. 基础；柱石；地基 strenuously [str?nj??sli]adv. 勤奋地；费力地 lobby[l?b?] vt. 对……进行游说n. 大厅；休息室；游说议员的团体 amnesty [?mn?st?] n. 大赦，特赦 vt. 对…实行大赦 undocumented adj. 无事实证明的；无正式文件的；非法入境的 President George W. Bush has acknowledged that the U.S. immi