Posted on 07/24/2018 6:30:16 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Some 13.5 percent of the U.S. population -- 44 million -- is foreign born, the highest level ever, and many are not proficient in English, choosing to speak Spanish at home instead.
A report from the Migration Policy Institute found that 22 percent of the U.S. population does not speak English at home.
The share was highest in Nevada at 31 percent and Florida at 29 percent.
The report revealed a new trend in migration to the U.S where immigrants are dispersed throughout the nation instead of clustering in a few states and cities.
For example, while the number of immigrants in the last eight years increased 9 percent, the foreign born population surged 15 percent or more in 15 states. The report said those states are: North Dakota, West Virginia, South Dakota, Delaware, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Indiana, Florida, Nevada, Washington, Iowa, and Maryland.
“Approximately nine million immigrants, or one in every five, reside in these 15 states.” said the report.
Mexicans and Cubans dominated the influx, followed by those from India and China.
Legal immigrants with green cards in the top 15 states were slightly outnumbered by illegal alien. From the report:
More than 1.6 million foreign nationals in the top 15 states obtained lawful permanent residence (LPR status, also known as getting a green card) between fiscal year (FY) 2010 and 2016. They accounted for 22 percent of the 7.4 million immigrants who received green cards during the same period nationwide.
The 15 states were home to about 1.7 million unauthorized immigrants in the 2010-14 period, or about 15 percent of the 11 million unauthorized population in the United States.
I work with a lot of immigrants, basically helping them to learn the ropes within the school systems which requires paperwork.
I MAKE them spell out their names, many I never heard of or can pronounce.
Some not all expect me to know how to spell their full names.
They tell me their name, I just seat there waiting for them to spell it....
When I get the “look” like stop being a stupid gringo, I explain if the form isn’t filled out with your correct name you aren’t getting squat...but I’d take my the best shot...
Also I don’t know why A, B and V all pronounced the same....
Yeah I think Trump won the vote with native born voters by a landslide.
Good point.
Und?
Here in California, greater Los Angeles, it is 80% Plus
Not only is not speaking English a recipe for failure, it's a recipe for a BIG hit on our pocketbooks. The non-English-speaking students require bilingual teachers (who, as I've seen, are usually not nearly as well versed in the subject area; their prime qualification is that they're bilingual), bilingual social workers and guidance counselors, bilingual textbooks, an interpreter to handle phone calls to home or parent visits to the school. All of this costs money.
Then, there's having to push "2" for Spanish in most phone menus these day, which I resent wasting my time to have to hear, the cost of bilingual government pamphlets, having less information on packaging because they have to save some space for the Spanish version, and other assorted annoyance for people too lazy to learn the language of their supposedly adopted country.
No---they are not "into" the U.S. enough to learn our language; they are here STRICTLY to take advantage of the libtard policies of welfare, free education/medical care/legal help/housing/food etc. They are parasites feeding off of the American taxpayer. If you don't feel you have to learn English, then get the heck outta here, go back to your S-hole native country, you scum!
This was a ‘new trend’ in the 1990’s. I’m glad the ‘Washington Examiner’ blog finally caught on.
Speak what you want at home, but please speak English in public.
It’s the alien or anti-U.S. culture that is practiced in such homes that should be of more concern.
What a fabulous accomplishment!
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I thought the same thing.
Exactly.
There are people who speak English, who do not understand hardly anything anyway. Sometimes there is little awareness of what is going on, even though someone can speak the language.
Excellent points and right on!
Many of my German and Swiss-German ancestors arrived here prior to the American Revolution.
The spoke German at home until WWI.
Am I bothered by Spanish at home? Nein.
Am I bothered by Spanish signs at Lowe’s. JA!
Press 2 for....
That is child abuse for their children. It should be a requirement for free stuff to speakie English!!
All you have to do is require only English on signs instructions what have you and they will learn English.
They prefer the language of the nation that conquered their people centuries ago.
you have to be a citizen to vote
didn’t there used to be an English proficiency test to become a citizen?
why do states offer ballots in 6+ different languages?
How to ballot initiatives have any legal standing when the application of ballot initiatives often comes down to the precise wording of the ballot initiative? When multiple translations exist, which one holds up in court?
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