Literacy expert has stern warning over Illegals

The Wisconsin State Journal reports:

America is heading for an explosion in the number of immigrant children who grow up unable to read, write or fit into society, a national literacy expert says.

Robert Wedgeworth, president of ProLiteracy Worldwide, a nonprofit agency based in Syracuse, N.Y., plans to tell an audience in Madison today that the nation must sharply increase support for adult education programs.

Federal funding for adult education remains steady at about $580 million, but Wedgeworth argues that the nation should double or triple funding to attack problems such as poverty, crime, workplace accidents - and illiteracy among immigrant children.

Half of the children of illiterate parents grow up unable to read and write, research shows.

Although the U.S. census doesn't directly measure literacy, it does offer a warning, Wedgeworth said.

Immigrants who arrived in this nation in the 1990s, he said, reported the lowest levels of education and English-speaking ability of any group of newcomers since the 1890 census.

"To many people, that's shocking," Wedgeworth said in an interview last week.

More illegals mean the demand for goverment spending grows.This is the dream of some in the Democratic Party today.