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This isn’t a “blaming immigrants” thing. 14% of the population is notable and while much of that population can speak, read, and write English better than native speakers a sizable portion only learn to speak it. This does go back to the official language thing (which actually is not true anymore, trump executive ordered it in his flurry of bullshit EOs). Before that EO they could just get government forms in their native tongue but now that’s probably jeopardized
But these studies generally look at literacy rates of English since, while it wasn’t the official language until very recently, it functionally was. So it’s not blaming immigrants but more explaining that yes, a portion of the data is attributed to people that do not speak English as a first language, rather than the native speakers who were failed by a collapsing public education system