My sons have some Puerto Rican children in their classes. The students relocated after the hurricane in 2017. Their English is not the best. There are also a lot of Honduran, Guatemalan, Mexican, Cuban, and Columbian students. In Alabama. Sweet kids. Not enough ESL teachers to go around. I think there are less than a dozen Russians in the whole school system. But the Spanish speakers seem to be at least 20% or more. In small town Alabama.
He had the same problem.
I can't tell you how many times he told me, as I sat on his knee, about the lack of ESL teachers at the school he attended in rural Wisconsin.
To this day I wonder how he and his family ever managed to get by and be successful in the New World.