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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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To: reaganaut1

I have a mother in law from Mexico who is a resident and still doesn’t speak English after 32 years.

My wife is the ONLY one in her family making it and the best thing that happened to her was getting kicked out of her mom’s house when she was 17.

Currently a 14 year old little sister in law was accepted into a Los Angeles High School and she can’t tell you what 13-4 is. Low IQ? Comes from a lower class section of a country where the mom had only a second grade education and passed it on?

My wife is the exception. Her memory is a vault (especially if I do something wrong she wants to remember), but what we have coming in should be forced to make it or leave. NO SOCIAL PROGRAM ASSISTANCE.


21 posted on 05/10/2013 2:29:12 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: reaganaut1

I may be zinged for say this, but what a wimp. If you don’t stand up for your work, then good riddance!


22 posted on 05/10/2013 2:30:03 PM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: woweeitsme

I doubt Richwine’s “resignation” was voluntary.


23 posted on 05/10/2013 2:30:45 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mmm, yes, but there are ways of telling it that can be twisted and used against you, and ways of telling it that cut off the knees of the enemy.


24 posted on 05/10/2013 2:32:33 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: 1L

Amen and Mega Dittoes. The R party is filled with wimps and cowards.


25 posted on 05/10/2013 2:33:06 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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To: reaganaut1
Hey! It's the truth!

Yeah, but you can't say it! ...it's hurtful & disrespectful.

The world we live in today.

26 posted on 05/10/2013 2:33:44 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: reaganaut1

He resigned because? My scenario....I think it was a case of resign or be fired. Who at Heritage accepted the “resignation” and/or who threatened to fire him?


27 posted on 05/10/2013 2:34:23 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Bratch

DeMint kinda disappointed me. I believe he ‘coulda been a contender.’

For the 2012 race. He was asked. He floated up trial ballons. But in the end - he did not run.

He would have been tons better then Mitt, but....


28 posted on 05/10/2013 2:35:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Bratch

Plenty of Chamber-of-Commerce types at Heritage. I think it’s miraculous they oppose open borders at all.


29 posted on 05/10/2013 2:38:24 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: reaganaut1

This is one example of why the Heritage Foundation gets nothing from me.


30 posted on 05/10/2013 2:38:31 PM PDT by stockpirate (Planned Parenthood, murdering black children one baby at a time.......where is the outrage)
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To: reaganaut1

It sounds to me like this guy is assuming that all recent immigrants are dirt-poor Mexican peasants crawling into the USA to take advantage of government handouts. But if the new amnesty bill passes, they’ll be flooding in from all over the world (including China). A blanket statement like his is just stupid. IQ varies from individual to individual, not from culture to culture. Generations ago they said the same thing about Irish immigrants, and Italian immigrants, and East European Jewish immigrants, etc.


31 posted on 05/10/2013 2:43:30 PM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)
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To: PieterCasparzen

The Richwine thesis has not been disproved and has many elements of reality about it.

The high IQs in hell-hole countries scheme as to the best way to exploit the masses for their own good.

The lower IQs know they’re not making it and just want a better life.


32 posted on 05/10/2013 2:43:54 PM PDT by plangent
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To: arista

His findings were part of his Harvard doctoral thesis. Harvard gave him the PhD so he had to have defended his claims successfully.
Naturally the left is going to ignore this little detail.

Doesn’t it make sense that we could be of more help to immigrants if we knew the truth about them and what they need?
Why is ignoring the obvious considered compassion in this country?


33 posted on 05/10/2013 2:44:35 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: reaganaut1

http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/r/jason-richwine

Please read Mr. Richwine’s excellent article at the above link.

The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer

Then email The Heritage Foundation to express your disappointment that they threw Mr. Richwine under the bus for telling the truth.

staff@heritage.org


34 posted on 05/10/2013 2:46:23 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: reaganaut1

This is so wrong. He deserves kudos.


35 posted on 05/10/2013 2:47:43 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: reaganaut1
I hope that Richwine lands on his feet. We need intellectual honesty about important issues.

Me too.

Mexico is sending us it's most undesirable citizens, criminal insurgents etc to invade the USA to colonize it. No wonder they are the lower IQ types, the others are either "connected" or waiting for the grunts to finish the hard work of La Raza'ing our country and doing all they can to bring down the economy, then the "elites" will be set up to use the ones already here to support them as the conquerors.


36 posted on 05/10/2013 2:50:11 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: plangent
The Richwine thesis has not been disproved and has many elements of reality about it.

I'm not addressing whether it's factually correct or not. But Heritage writings are supposed to be helping the conservative cause.

Thereofore, if I was writing for Heritage and had a view that might be able to be interpreted by the mainstream press as being politically incorrect and then pushed like crazy in the propaganda machine, I'd be sure to word by writing to have to move in the direction I wanted the public to move intellectually, but at the same time not offer red meat the to the left.

A loosely analagous hypothetical... perhaps a squad of soldiers would want everyone to shoot at the enemy in general, but if the squad us in a situation where they're trying to remain concealed and are holding their fire, if a squad member shoots at an enemy at that point and it gives the squad's position away to the enemy, then that shot didn't "help".
37 posted on 05/10/2013 2:54:39 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: reaganaut1

It is amazing that this guy’s paper he did in years ago matters but Obama’s doesn’t


38 posted on 05/10/2013 2:58:43 PM PDT by dila813
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To: arista

IQ by country

http://www.raventest.net/averageiqbycountry.html


39 posted on 05/10/2013 3:03:39 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Richwine’s thesis was written well before he joined Heritage. If they thought it would be a liability, they should not have hired him in the first place.


40 posted on 05/10/2013 3:04:09 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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