That would be just about any inner-city teen......
Will they qualify the assistance based on only helping those who are legally in the country? I thought not.
Unless there are qualifications involved -- like, recipients have to declare the goal of citizenship, for starters -- this is only more incentive for more illegal immigration.
Why not make it a requiremen of participants in this grant money, that to apply and receive funds, you must have, at the very least, "plans" to become a citizen, "plans" to become legitimate.
And, they surely must screen applicants for forged identification papers. Otherwise, it's just highway robbery many millions over.
I am finding it curiously alarming that it's stated that the Labor Department is (via this funding process, your article) taking these actions inorder to "train workers..."
There's an implication there that there's a gateway for illegal immigration: be a "worker" in the U.S., get language training and many more "free" things...all at American citizen expense.
How many border agents and benefits for them could this money provide?
I learned English the free and independent way: I went to school and I studied vocabulary and spelling and read books and took tests and...attended public schools for thirteen years (kindergarten included there).
Why can't "workers" learn English on their own? If someone wants to be a citizen, they should be studying and motivated to learn all that they can to help themselves out. Like how to fill out an application with their own name, own documentation and not false information in another language than their potential employer speaks.
Reading the article more carefully, it says that this five million is going to "test...training materials..." that would be used in instructing "...workers..." in English.
Menaing, they are going to spend the five million on companies or a company who will develope the materials, not on applicants/participants....which will probably be another five, maybe ten million more to actually provide English instruction to 'workers'.
I find the word -- "workers" -- a tad too similar to Communist China and oldline Russian communist party rhetoric, as another thing. Training "workers" sounds like a plan by some Central Communist Party Committee or something.
My English proficiency, while good, is not unlimited. Therefore, my English proficiency is limited. How much of the $5 million do I get?