FACT CHECK: Do You Have To Speak English To Be Naturalized?

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HOLMES LYBRAND
Fact Check Editor at The Daily Caller News Foundation
10:04 AM 08/03/2017

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http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/03/fact-check-do-you-have-to-speak-english-to-be-naturalized/

During a heated exchange at the Wednesday press briefing between a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, the question of English requirements for naturalization came up.

In an attempt to ridicule a proposal on immigration, Acosta cited a poem on the Statue of Liberty, stating that the poem “doesn’t say anything about speaking English” in order to immigrate to the U.S.

Acosta continued, “Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you’re telling them you have to speak English? Can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?”