<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:11 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">PS. I believe the requirement for immigrants to know English (or the<br>
weird variant that Americans speak) :) is only required for<br>
naturalization. You can be a non-English speaking immigrant so long as<br>
you don't apply for citizenship.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br><br></div><div>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.<br></div></div></div></div>