Article: This Indie Rocker-Turned-Congressman Is Ready to Make HIs Name on Immigration Reform

This Indie Rocker-Turned-Congressman Is Ready to Make HIs Name on Immigration Reform
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/this-indie-rocker-turned-congressman-is-ready-to-make-his-name-on-immigration-reform-20130522

Jason Richwine, PhD

Sometimes when people say they'll give a PhD to anyone, you think they're kidding, maybe even half joking. But apparently Harvard gives PhDs to people who ascribe to what is nothing short of eugenics redux. A lot has been made this week about Jason Richwine's work as an academic and as a member of that bastion of intellectual life, The Heritage Foundation. According to Richwine, if you're a Latino immigrant, your children are going to have low IQ and your grandchildren are also going to have low IQ. Furthermore, this is a guy who inherently believes that if you are white you are innately smarter than any black person you come across. To put it into context, if you take a black guy at an Ivy League school and a white guy at your local community college, the white guy is going to prove to be the smarter of the two. A white guy from the trailer parks of Detroit is instantly smarter than a black guy at Oxford.

This sort of bullshit is naturally expected from Nationalists, but for one who dares call himself an expert in public policy, Mr. Richwine is a fucking imbecile. You cannot purport to hypothesize about any given population's intelligence without ever considering the environmental aspects of that population. Take the Castro brothers from San Antonio for instance. They're children of immigrants, yet they graduated from Stanford and Harvard. I suspect they have higher IQs than Mr. Richwine and the douchebags the Heritage Foundation puts together. Genetics have little to do with IQ. You give any child the kind of access to books, good teachers, safe communities that white kids get and you will see just how smart they are. Richwine is a disgrace to Harvard's reputation.

Immigration and risks

So you were brought to the United States when you were 3 years old by your parents, only you don't have the right documents to stay in the country.

A few years later, your family has paid its dues and paid taxes. Now it comes time for college and because you are not an American citizen you're told you can't get an education.

This is America as it is right now. The people pushing for the Dream Act will like this to end, but it's not likely that they will get it. The American people for the most part are not interested in competition and to have the illegal children come in the mix competing at top schools for money and success.

These children deserve the right to get an education, they deserve the right to have a decent future. And from my point of view, as an immigrant myself, I believe competition would be beneficial to the United States in the long run. We live in a Darwinian world and only the fittest will survive. The children don't ask for the life they're brought into and even though some think this would be rewarding illegal activities, I think the bigger picture would show that these kids are only interested in living a good life and contributing to American society.