Immigrants In This Country Are NO Longer Assimilating Into The Greater Society!

From Conservatives United:

Is the U.S. an English-Speaking Country? Read This Before You Answer.

•  FEATURED, IDEALS, NEWS
•  ECONOMY, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, GREAT RECESSION, IMMIGRATION

Most of us think of the United States as an English-speaking country, but a recent study tells a different story. The study, conducted by The Center for ImmigrationStudies and based on U.S Census Bureau data, found 64 million – or 1 in 5 – people living in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home. Forty-four percent of those, 27.2 million, were born in America.

Steven Camarota, research director for CIS, believes the report demonstrates the United States’s immigration system is failing in assimilating the more than one million people who come to this country through legal channels. He also blames the Obama administration for tolerating the surge of illegal immigrants passing through our borders. Said Camarota:

It is important to understand that the enormous growth in foreign language use reflects past policy decisions. Allowing in over one million new legal immigrants a year and to a lesser extent tolerating illegal immigration has important implications for preserving a common language. For too long we have given little consideration to whether continuing this level of immigration, mostly legal, hinder the assimilation of immigrants and their children.

Seven languages were cited in the study as being spoken at home by over a million people each. Most commonly used is Spanish, with 38.4 million speakers. Second is Chinese, with 3 million people. 1.6 million people use Tagalong, the national Philippines language. Vietnamese is fourth, with 1.4 million speakers. French is fifth, with 1.3 million, and tied for sixth place with 1.1 million speakers each are Arabic and Korean.

The Department of Homeland Security estimates most of the more than a million people admitted into the U.S. every year legally come from non-English speaking countries such as Mexico, countries in Central and South America and in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. An earlier CIS study reported 2.5 million immigrants come from “predominantly Muslim countries.” There has also been considerable growth in the number of immigrants from Asia, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

In addition to threatening the use of English as our national language, immigration is hurting the American economy. A previous report by CIS, written by Camarota and Karen Zeigler, says:

Government data show that since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal). This is remarkable given that native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population. Though there has been some recovery from the Great Recession, there were still fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level.