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How Can We Expect Immigrants To Embrace American Values if We Don't?

By David Harsanyi
Friday, September 26 2025

In addition to demonstrating a basic handling of speaking, reading and writing in English, federal immigration law requires prospective citizens to understand "the fundamentals of the history, and of the principles and form of government, of the United States." Do they? According to studies, over 40% of new immigrants aren't proficient in even the most basic English, and many can't speak it at all. For years, the citizenship exam consisted of 100 questions, given to the applicants in advance, most of which were extraordinarily basic. An immigrant is only required to answer…

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