The Patriot Post® · 61.8 Million U.S. Residents Don't Speak English at Home

The Center for Immigration Studies is out with a new report showing that today’s immigrants are not assimilating as well as we might like. In fact, CIS says, “In 2013, a record 61.8 million U.S. residents (native-born, legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants) spoke a language other than English at home.” This has major implications for the melting pot. “Allowing in over one million new legal immigrants a year and to a lesser extent tolerating illegal immigration has important implication [sic] for preserving a common language,” Steven Camarota, CIS director of research and co-author of the report, said in a release. “For too long we have given little consideration to whether continuing this level of immigration, mostly legal, hinders the assimilation of immigrants and their children.” With 1.4 million new Spanish speakers coming to the U.S. between 2010 and 2013, it’s a problem that must be addressed. More…