Posted on 05/08/2013 12:06:21 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The Heritage Foundation made something of a splash with its study suggesting that immigration reform will cost the public trillions. Past work by one of its co-authors helps put that piece in context.
Jason Richwine is relatively new to the think tank world. He received his PhD in public policy from Harvard in 2009, and joined Heritage after a brief stay at the American Enterprise Institute. Richwine’s doctoral dissertation is titled “IQ and Immigration Policy”; the contents are well summarized in the dissertation abstract:
"The statistical construct known as IQ can reliably estimate general mental ability, or intelligence. 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. The consequences are a lack of socioeconomic assimilation among low-IQ immigrant groups, more underclass behavior, less social trust, and an increase in the proportion of unskilled workers in the American labor market. Selecting high-IQ immigrants would ameliorate these problems in the U.S., while at the same time benefiting smart potential immigrants who lack educational access in their home countries."
Richwine’s dissertation asserts that there are deep-set differentials in intelligence between races. While it’s clear he thinks it is partly due to genetics — “the totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ” — he argues the most important thing is that the differences in group IQs are persistent, for whatever reason. He writes, “No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.”
Toward the end of the thesis, Richwine writes that though he believes racial differences in IQ to be real and persistent
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I’m going to tape my fingers together with duct tape so I won’t be banned.
This is common sense. Lower IQ people tend to produce less and end up on the public dole more. Of course a nation should desire to limit or even prohibit immigrants that will lessen society.
Yeah, well, that is a good thing.
Who wants to put MORONS in our nation? Seriously.
He has engaged in Thought Crime, thinking something that is true but unpopular.
>>>Who wants to put MORONS in our nation? Seriously.
The Democratic Party. That’s who. More stupid people in America, will mean more Democrats. How else do you expect Hillary Clinton to get elected President in 2016?
The marginalization of Heritage continues...
Scary is that we have Club for Growth and Americans for Tax Reform pushing this anti-American agenda. People need to let others know that Club for Growth and Americans for Tax Reform are not conservative nor pro-American groups
For decades it has been U.S. policy to not admit people who would become a burden on society, including those with limited mental faculties. It’s written into the law. I’ll try to find the exact wording of the statute.
His train of thought is only unpopular among Liberals, academics, and “elites”. Unfortunately, those groups control the media and schools so they try to brainwash everyone into thinking that un-PC views are unpopular when, in reality, most normal people think those thoughts because they’re correct thoughts.
Shades of of the Stanford doc, Shockley of the electron chip I think? Of course he was more interested in black skin as opposed to white skin and used intelligence population probability curves for his discourse. He was really given the boot treatment. He would have been better off applying his probability population curve to black vs white baseball, basketball, and baseball players.
Tough love.
Can you type stuff like that with a straight face?
We're advertising how to get food stamps in Mexico. We're letting hundreds of 'burdens' into our country every day.
We have enough low skilled grunt workers to last us 200 years. We should stop all low skilled immigration into America. Good luck getting into Australia, Canada, New Zealand because their immigration is skills based. IOW what can this immigrant do for us? We do the opposite and bring in millions of low IQ low skill legal immigrants simply because they have family over here
85% of our legal immigration is from the 3rd world. They run the immigration show, just look how this bs Amnesty is being pushed.
That’s the Rat voter base.
Easier said -> Democrats.
We aren’t having any trouble growing our own morons!
If the democrats produced flower seeds for a garden they would mandate 80% of the seeds be from weeds. Nobody would be allowed to complain about the weeds and nobody would be allowed to rip the weeks out of the garden.
If you dared say anything about the weeds you would be a racist weed-o-phobe.
Play the racist card if you want but this country was on a much better growth path before Ted, the woman killer/molester, Kennedy (may he never rest in peace) changed our immigration laws to give preference to the weeds and reject the productive plants.
You cannot build a great society using turd world people.
I’m saying that with a completely straight face. What I said has been official U.S. policy, written into the law. We have an administration that is not enforcing the spirit or the letter of the law.
The Dems made a big deal about Romney’s “47% that don’t pay taxes” statement. Ask yourself as question: What are the odds that people sneaking across the border will be in the 53% of taxpayers?
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