Author of critical immigration report previously wrote of lower IQ in immigrants
A report released by the conservative Heritage Foundation that was highly critical of proposed immigration legislation is coming under new scrutiny after it was discovered its co-author previously wrote a dissertation citing lower IQs among immigrants.
The Heritage Foundation immediately distanced itself from the 2009 paper written by Jason Richwine, who is described on Heritage’s website as a quantitative analyst.
He penned a dissertation at Harvard titled “IQ and Immigration Policy” that asserted in its summary 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.”
His paper argued for a policy that sought out immigrants with higher IQs, which he claimed would ameliorate problems currently affecting immigrant populations like “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.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/08/author-of-critical-immigration-report-previously-wrote-of-lower-iq-in-immigrants/
