Arabic fastest-growing language in U.S.

Source: WND
Story flagged by: Maria Kopnitsky

[…] The fastest growing language in the U.S. among roughly 63.2 million residents who do not speak English is Arabic, the Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey, or ACS, concluded.

The findings were released Monday.

“Immigration is not just an economic issue. English as our common language is part of the glue that holds our country together,” Steve Camarota, the report’s author, told Breitbart News on Monday. “These numbers suggest that the levels of immigration are so high that it may strain that. After the last great wave of immigration more than a century ago, the level of immigration was reduced and remained low for half a century, which helped with assimilation. With no pause in immigration levels in sight, the nation is headed into uncharted territory.” More.

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