[ExI] sign along spokane river

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:11 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> PS.  I believe the requirement for immigrants to know English (or the
> weird variant that Americans speak) :) is only required for
> naturalization. You can be a non-English speaking immigrant so long as
> you don't apply for citizenship.
>

And technically it doesn't apply to people born within the borders of the
US.  How many of said children grow up never speaking English at home, and
thus having a difficult time learning functional English in school (or as
working adults if effectively homeschooled) is not a statistic that I have
on hand; many demagogues complain that this is a significant number, but
that seems unlikely.

And/or, they're complaining about immigrants that learned basically only
the words needed for naturalization and, once they passed that check,
forgot even that.
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