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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on July 14, 2017, 08:29:22 am
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5 million immigrants granted US citizenship can't speak English
by Paul Bedard | Jul 12, 2017, 3:12 PM
In a stunning indictment of the system that tests immigrants on their eligibility to become "naturalized citizens," a new report finds that a third are functionally illiterate, unable to speak and understand enough English to get that status.
Some 32 percent of naturalized citizens, about 5 million, fall below "basic" skills in English, the equivalent of being functionally illiterate, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/5-million-immigrants-granted-us-citizenship-cant-speak-english/article/2628443