Whose going to hire them if they have insufficient training. The USSA solution driver a taxi, operate as motel cockroaches included, flip tacos, The only answers are mandatory english training and mandatory english training before anything else is taught. Berlitz does it in one week or two weeks and has been doing that for decades. What's wrong with our schools?

The second step for me is mandatory foreign language training before being accepted into any form of government service. Military or civilian. That will take care of the backlog over time leaving the x+y=Zero generatioin still at zero unless the schools start night schools. Now what is the easiest language to learn for an illiterate in English American Citizen? Spanish. Wow we solve two problems with one elegant solution. Spanish and English are the two main languages of three in the Western Hemisphere.
Two languages you own that space. It's a one week course at Berlitz. What's wrong with our schools.

That requirement for service specifies no particular language. A new immigrant speaking Rumanian, Russian, English automatically qualifies and probably would add Spanish. No taxi drivers there.