>...there are plenty of immigrants year after year that if English was a priority, it would get funding... English departments don't normally prepare their gra

>...there are plenty of immigrants year after year that if English was a priority, it would get funding... English departments don't normally prepare their graduates teach English as a 2nd language. That's usually done by Applied Linguistics. Applied linguistics also doesn't have the employment problem English programs do. The job market is much better.