Via Matt Yglesias and Made in America, evidently today's Spanish-speaking immigrants pick up English significantly more quickly than previous waves of immigration, though slightly more slowly than today's non-Spanish-speakers:It seems clear that today's immigrants are not taking longer to adapt linguistically than in the past, and one can only assume the acculturation goes beyond mere language. I wonder what the reason for the difference between then and now is: better schools, less clustering in ethnic ghettos, more familiarity with English upon arrival, a variety of other factors I've not thought of?
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Red Shoes are Better than Bacon 
A wide variety of personal experience in time, situation and location points to this points to this being false.
In Southern California, Denver and Texas the percentage of Mexican immigrants that speak english well or frequently approaches nil. I am married into a large Mexican family and other than my wife none of them speak or wish to speak more than rudimentary english. The study say that they know and “use” english. I suspect they “use” english much like I use my restaurant French
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