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Heritage official resigns amid controversy
Associated Press ^ | May 10, 2013 | ERICA WERNER

Posted on 05/10/2013 2:06:51 PM PDT by reaganaut1

A co-author of a disputed Heritage Foundation report on a new immigration bill has resigned amid controversy over claims he made about immigrants having low IQs. A spokesman for the conservative think tank confirmed Jason Richwine's resignation Friday without offering details.

Richwine was one of two authors of a report released Monday that said immigration legislation pending in the Senate would cost $6.3 trillion over 50 years as immigrants consumed federal benefits without making up for it in taxes. The report quickly came under attack as critics from the left and right said it didn't account for economic benefits from immigration.

Attention turned to Richwine when his 2009 Ph.D. dissertation from Harvard University came to light in which he asserted that: "The average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations." He argued that the result is low socioeconomic assimilation and other problems and argued that allowing in immigrants with high IQs would help solve the problems.

Richwine's comments got attention from immigrant activist groups, on left-leaning blogs and elsewhere, and helped muddy Heritage's attempt to refocus the immigration debate on what it says are unsustainable costs from the new legislation.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; bellcurve; heritage; illegalinvasion; illegals; immigrationreform; invasion; iq; jasonrichwine; richwine; rubio
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Related thread: Heritage study co-author opposed letting in immigrants with low IQs .

I hope that Richwine lands on his feet. We need intellectual honesty about important issues.

1 posted on 05/10/2013 2:06:51 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell


2 posted on 05/10/2013 2:08:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: reaganaut1

The truth hurts. It usually hurts the truth teller the most.


3 posted on 05/10/2013 2:09:00 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nice one and it applies in spades, er, overwhelming today.


4 posted on 05/10/2013 2:10:26 PM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: reaganaut1

AP, who cannot find something nice to write about the Herritage Foundation if it were attached to their backside was quick to find this matter and send it along.


5 posted on 05/10/2013 2:11:55 PM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: reaganaut1

That is sad to hear.....it will only encourage our enemies.


6 posted on 05/10/2013 2:11:56 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: reaganaut1

The truth is the truth!


7 posted on 05/10/2013 2:15:03 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: reaganaut1

Is the assertion about immigrants having lower IQs factually incorrect, or do people just not want to hear it because it’s politically incorrect?


8 posted on 05/10/2013 2:15:24 PM PDT by arista
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Wonder who at Heritage pushed him out. I don’t believe this was his decision alone.
Unbelievable how weak our side are!


9 posted on 05/10/2013 2:17:18 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: reaganaut1

Economic benefits?

Bull Obama.

As if a mere journalist could even get past simple multiplication tables.


10 posted on 05/10/2013 2:17:27 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: reaganaut1

The truth runs up against political correctness and Truth loses. Welcome to the USSA.


11 posted on 05/10/2013 2:19:46 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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To: reaganaut1

The comment was unhelpful. It was a huge distraction and only made it easy for the liberals to dismiss the report.


12 posted on 05/10/2013 2:20:11 PM PDT by Alex in chains
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To: reaganaut1

They got him.


13 posted on 05/10/2013 2:20:47 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Sequoyah101

Telling the truth might not make you attract a lot of fiends, but you’ll make the right friends.


14 posted on 05/10/2013 2:23:01 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: reaganaut1

Political Correctness is like a virus. It infects and infests everything.

Even the Heritage Foundation.


15 posted on 05/10/2013 2:23:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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A “conservative” from Harvard writes a piece that offers red meat to those who want to bash conservatism in the press.

Hint: anyone who graduates from Harvard is not truly conservative.

It’s called killing resistence to immigration reform in conservative circles from the inside out.

That’s why you frame both sides of the argument.

This is how the establishment works.

Harvard is one of the few schools where the elite establishment have always sent their children who will one day take over the reins.

Some take on the “liberal” persona, others take on the “conservative” persona.

But if they go into the power circles after graduation, they’re ultimately all working for the big money people.

One more note: no worries about Richwine. Harvard grads can always land on their feet and do quite well.


16 posted on 05/10/2013 2:24:44 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“Controversy” or “controversial” are the newest media meme.

And it only applies to guns and/or conservatives.

17 posted on 05/10/2013 2:25:13 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: reaganaut1

Why the hell would he resign? His resignation, whether his idea or the HF’s, just lends credence to the idea that he did something wrong when he didn’t.

THIS is why we are losing, folks. Conservatives cower in fear and go away when we should tell our opponents to go jump in the lake.


18 posted on 05/10/2013 2:26:00 PM PDT by 1L
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To: RginTN
Wonder who at Heritage pushed him out. I don’t believe this was his decision alone.

Unbelievable how weak our side are!

Don't know who pushed him out, but you would think the President of the Heritage Foundation could have prevented it.


19 posted on 05/10/2013 2:27:57 PM PDT by Bratch
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They don’t have “low IQs”, they are merely uneducated and seeking low skill trades. They “only want the jobs nobody in America will do”.

Right.

And then we are told about how brilliant their children are and how they should go to our universities (and seek the jobs that other citizens DO want).


20 posted on 05/10/2013 2:27:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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