Immigration at Record Level, Analysis Finds

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Nov. 29, 2007

Mexicans top Latino immigrant groups in language struggles, study says

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-language_webnov30,1,5062620.story

[snip]Nearly three of every four Mexican immigrants speak English “just a little or not at all,” the lowest rate among Latin American immigrant groups, according to a new study.

By comparison, 35 percent of those born in Puerto Rico struggle with English, while 44 percent of those from South American countries do, according to the study released today by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center, which based its findings on a survey of 14,000 Latino adults nationwide.

The reasons for poorer English skills among Mexican immigrants include lower education levels before entering the U.S., less time in the U.S. and a greater likelihood of speaking Spanish at work, the study said.

This is where we need immigration reform:

"A large proportion of recent immigrants, both legal and illegal, are low-skilled workers and about one-third of those have not completed high school, giving them significantly less education than Americans born in the United States, according to the study, which is based on census data as recent as March of this year."

We need to import needed specialties, skills, and talent, not people illiterate even in their native tongues.

The large scale immigrations of the past brought people with enough skills to match the needs of the country at the time they arrived. Needed education and skills then were not the same as in today's technological culture and our policies need to represent that change.

Encourage and facilitate legal import of those who will help advance the country and soundly discourage any other - particularly those who's first act on American soil is illegal.

The past year or so has proven, no thanks to our president or congress, that illegals and even some legal immigrants will pick up and leave when faced with reasonable local policies, the "can't round them up" debate is invalid. We don't have to round them up - just bust (and deport) them when they're encountered.

(Finally: Yes, I know there are some otherwise very good and deserving people in the invasion but illegal is illegal and making some consideration for sponsorship of those deserving it should certainly be included in any hypothetical reforms.)

>> "There is no way they can count all of these people. These numbers are way too low!" <<

Of course they are low - we all know that. Everytime we have to search through an instruction manual for directions in English........

And everytime we have to PRESS #1 FOR ENGLISH

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