Massachusetts Residents Lack English-Language Proficiency amid Migrant Influx

About 480,000 working-age residents in Massachusetts have limited English-language proficiency, an issue that has surfaced as the state is being flooded with migrants.

The problem also comes as taxpayers are fleeing to more affordable states, the Boston Herald reported on Wednesday:

The roughly 480,000 residents with limited English proficiency represents approximately 10% of the state workforce, and may be a significant undercount, due to reliance on 2022 census estimates, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by MassINC and the UMass Donahue Institute.

The analysis places the blame on state and federal funding that has not kept pace with growth in the state’s limited English-speaking, or foreign-born, population over the past two decades, which it says has led to large gaps in access to high-quality English-as-a-second-language services.

WGBH noted Wednesday that approximately 20,000 migrants in Massachusetts are waiting to get into classes to learn to speak English.

In January, Massachusetts leaders began asking private homeowners to house illegal aliens as the state ran out of places to put them {snip}

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