Posted on 07/24/2018 6:30:16 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Some 13.5 percent of the U.S. population -- 44 million -- is foreign born, the highest level ever, and many are not proficient in English, choosing to speak Spanish at home instead.
A report from the Migration Policy Institute found that 22 percent of the U.S. population does not speak English at home.
The share was highest in Nevada at 31 percent and Florida at 29 percent.
The report revealed a new trend in migration to the U.S where immigrants are dispersed throughout the nation instead of clustering in a few states and cities.
For example, while the number of immigrants in the last eight years increased 9 percent, the foreign born population surged 15 percent or more in 15 states. The report said those states are: North Dakota, West Virginia, South Dakota, Delaware, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Indiana, Florida, Nevada, Washington, Iowa, and Maryland.
“Approximately nine million immigrants, or one in every five, reside in these 15 states.” said the report.
Mexicans and Cubans dominated the influx, followed by those from India and China.
Legal immigrants with green cards in the top 15 states were slightly outnumbered by illegal alien. From the report:
More than 1.6 million foreign nationals in the top 15 states obtained lawful permanent residence (LPR status, also known as getting a green card) between fiscal year (FY) 2010 and 2016. They accounted for 22 percent of the 7.4 million immigrants who received green cards during the same period nationwide.
The 15 states were home to about 1.7 million unauthorized immigrants in the 2010-14 period, or about 15 percent of the 11 million unauthorized population in the United States.
My grandparents immigrated here from Poland in 1914. They made sure that their children spoke English. While her older siblings spoke two languages, my mother was born in 1926 and she only spoke English as did her younger sister. They assimilated! Ditto with my Italian grandfather. My dad only knew the Italian cuss words.
I have no patience with people who come here and refuse to teach their children English. They should be deported and they should receive no government assistance. Before you know it English won’t be a requirement for citizenship!
My ancestors came here from Switzerland in 1854. As recently as say 1950, my grand mother and her sisters and other Swiss of their generation and church spoke French at home.
I was exposed to the French but there was no attempt to even encourage me at all to learn French. My mother understood but never spoke. Her sisters never learned any French at all.
Yeh, because that’s likely the true number of illegals in the country.
To be fair a fair number of that Nevada figure is actually American Indians who still speak their native languages at home..
The Boooshies don’t ...
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