The Obama administration is encouraging the 8.8 million eligible lawful permanent residents to become U.S. citizen with efforts aimed at raising awareness about the process and pressing more immigrants to naturalize. The citizenship agency released two versions of a video: one in English and one in Spanish.
It’s been fewer than two days since the Oldham by-election, and as you might have read, UK Independence Party (UKIP) sources have had their say about the result, and the increasingly discomforting demographics of a seat like Oldham West and
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says he thinks all Republican presidential candidates should speak English on the campaign trail.
Video of two women hurling insults at one another at a Koreatown IHOP has gone viral after a man, who says he is the son of one of the women and who joined in the fight, posted the argument to Facebook.
“Compared to the English-proficient population, the LEP population was less educated and more likely to live in poverty,” the Migration Policy Institute reports. “Employed LEP men in 2013 were more likely to work in construction, natural resources, and maintenance occupations than English-proficient men, while LEP women were much more likely to be employed in service and personal-care occupations than English-proficient women.”
The New York Immigration Coalition’s report looked at the barriers non-English speaking parents face to participate in their child’s education, especially since more than 180 languages are spoken in the city.
Nearly 10 percent of the nation’s K-12 enrollment in public schools were “English Language Learners” (ELLs) during the 2012-2013 academic calendar, according to a new fact sheet from the Migration Policy Institute.
In a Spanish language interview with Jorge Ramos on Univision’s Al Punto show, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) discussed immigration policy, affirming his longstanding objection to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) programs. Part of the Ramos interview with Rubio aired on Wednesday and the full interview is scheduled to air on Sunday.
According to a study at the Migration Policy Institute, three million of the USA’s 11.4 million Illegal immigrants live in California, sixty percent of whom live in Los Angeles County and nearby surrounding counties.
U.S.-born children who are struggling to speak English outnumber foreign-born kids. The data in an Education Writers Association report suggest that students born in America to immigrant parents may not be assimilating as quickly as those from past generations. The disadvantages
