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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: stockpirate
To me, the Heritage Foundation just moved to the Dark Side. So many in Washington show no backbone or principle. How quickly this organization distanced itself. De Mint not looking like a strong leader of integrity. How many more will leave when they see how their boss throws his employees under the bus.
41 posted on 05/10/2013 3:05:20 PM PDT by rebooted
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To: 1L

I agree completely. Its the number two thing that bothers me the most about our side. We don’t defend our own when under attack. Why should we expect anyone to stand on priciple, when fellow soliders run for the tall grass after the first shots are fired.

Oh, the number one thing? When conservatives refer to any media they disagree with as “mainstream media”


42 posted on 05/10/2013 3:07:08 PM PDT by jimjohn
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To: originalbuckeye
The truth runs up against political correctness and Truth loses. Welcome to the USSA.

What a bunch of wimps. Yes we sure are the old USSR.

43 posted on 05/10/2013 3:23:43 PM PDT by Digger
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To: reaganaut1

2009 Ph.D. dissertation comments - did he get his Doctorate or did he have to rewrite?


44 posted on 05/10/2013 3:23:59 PM PDT by Plain Old American (Remember who said what; Remind those who don't Remember; Vote and take a friend to the polls)
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To: rockabyebaby
I think it was a case of resign or be fired.

So what? As much noise is this is making, it wouldn't have mattered if they had fired him. Everyone knows he was shown the door.

I was given that choice, and I took Door Number 2. I was hurt and humiliated for number of years, but, the way the organization has devolved, I now consider it a badge of honor. Sad to see The Heritage Foundation going in the same direction.

45 posted on 05/10/2013 3:24:34 PM PDT by LSAggie
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To: arista

All immigrants? I work at a nursing home and today the administrator had several doctors in for lunch. Two appeared to be Indian and one maybe Chinese, and one I’m not sure, but none were “American”. The future of medicine in America. I doubt they have low IQs.


46 posted on 05/10/2013 3:28:49 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: RginTN

I wouldn’t be surprised if he did choose to leave on his own. If he is principled and believes what he’s written (which I’m sure he does) he also realizes that the controversy is nothing but a distraction to benefit the left and he wouldn’t want to be part of that distraction any more than he already is.


47 posted on 05/10/2013 3:32:27 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: rebooted

Exactly...and I just rejoined!!!

We’re falling for everything!


48 posted on 05/10/2013 3:34:27 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: ilovesarah2012

This excerpt from the posted article should answer your question:

“’The average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population, ... .’ He argued that ... allowing in immigrants with high IQs would help solve the problems.”


49 posted on 05/10/2013 3:39:26 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: reaganaut1; All

Does anyone in the GOP have a backbone

Whether he left on his own, or was pushed out...it just helps the Hispanic Ku Klux Klan and like groups pass Illegal Alien Amnesty

And they can kiss my underside if they don’t like the term Hispanic Ku Klux Klan


50 posted on 05/10/2013 3:56:14 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: arista

Bingo! You win!


51 posted on 05/10/2013 4:25:36 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: kabumpo
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.

Well, why aren't you doing it then?

Evidently you could save us if you tried.

52 posted on 05/10/2013 5:06:51 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
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.

Very important point...
53 posted on 05/10/2013 5:09:18 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: arista
Is the assertion about immigrants having lower IQs factually incorrect, or do people just not want to hear it because it’s politically incorrect?

That is the question, isn't it?

54 posted on 05/10/2013 5:30:10 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am not an employee of the Heritage Foundation, which is their loss. They tend to hire starchy Ivy Leaguers.


55 posted on 05/10/2013 5:42:04 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: reaganaut1

So DeMint threw Richwine under the bus?


56 posted on 05/10/2013 5:48:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: reaganaut1

Truth and politics do not mix.

Richwine spoke an “inconvenient truth”, therefore he must pay the penalty.


57 posted on 05/10/2013 6:02:59 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: reaganaut1

Liberals like to talk about speaking truth to power. Richwine’s defenestration was an example of the establishment’s speaking power to truth.


58 posted on 05/10/2013 6:05:12 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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...amid controversy over claims he made about immigrants having low IQs.

59 posted on 05/10/2013 6:46:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: EDINVA
I wouldn’t be surprised if he did choose to leave on his own. If he is principled and believes what he’s written (which I’m sure he does) he also realizes that the controversy is nothing but a distraction to benefit the left and he wouldn’t want to be part of that distraction any more than he already is.

With that logic, Heritage might as well give up as the Amnesty forces demonizes anyone who disagrees with them. Sen Lindsay Graham made a promise to La Raza to "shut those bigots up" and bigots are anyone who oppose amnesty.

60 posted on 05/10/2013 7:02:53 PM PDT by RginTN
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