8/3/2017 - Leah Barkoukis Townhall.com
Americans on the left
and right overwhelmingly want immigrants to learn how to speak English—a fact
that seems to have come as a surprise to MSNBC's Chris Hayes.
The host of “All In”
retweeted a message with a link to a New York Times article
that discussed a survey about American identity, which included questions
specifically relating to the importance of speaking the English language.
“Very interesting data
in here,” Hayes tweeted. “Among them: "learn English!" is an
overwhelmingly popular position across both parties.”
From The New
York Times:
The Democracy Fund, a bipartisan
foundation that funds political research, recently put a
series of questions about this topic to 8,000 people who voted in
the 2012 presidential election as part of its Voter Study Group collaboration.
The survey was fielded in November 2016, but it included re-interviews of
people who were originally surveyed in 2011, 2012 and the summer of 2016.
As
John Sides, a member of the consortium reported, the results reveal
more consensus than you might expect about American identity, but also some
stark differences across parties and even within them.
Among
the questions: How important are things like speaking English or being born in
the United States? […]
There
was less consensus, but still strong support, for the importance of speaking
English (75 percent of Democrats and 95 percent of Republicans thought this was
important). (NYT)
The discussion comes
after a fiery
exchange between
CNN’s Jim Acosta and White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller over
President Trump’s new immigration policy, the Reforming American Immigration
for Strong Employment Act.
Acosta took particular
issue with the policy’s emphasis on the English language and skills.
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