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Posted on: August 1st, 2007
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Tags: citizenship, population
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“Spending on English instruction must be quadrupled to more than $4 billion a year for the next six years to make legal and illegal adult immigrants proficient in skills crucial to their assimilation and the economic future of a country whose population is increasingly foreign-born, a new national report says.
In the first nationwide study of its kind, the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute estimates that an additional $200 million a year is needed to improve legal immigrants English skills enough for them to pass a citizenship test and “fully participate in the countrys civic life.” An additional $2.9 billion a year is required for illegal immigrants to meet those standards, the report says.”
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