The Heritage Foundation’s Immigration Guru Wasn’t Just Racist, He’s Wrong

By Elspeth Reeve, The Atlantic

A co-author of the already controversial new Heritage Foundation study — the one that claims to show immigration reform will cost the U.S. $6.3 trillion dollars — wrote in 2009 that the government should grant immigrants visas based on IQ, and that “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.” The co-author, Jason Richwine, wrote that for his public policy doctoral thesis, The Washington Post‘s Dylan Matthews reports. Richwine wrote that the U.S. should use the term “skill-based” instead of IQ-based to “blunt the negative reaction.”

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