Here’s something I did enjoy watching—as opposed to the Clinton/ Trump debate. It’s intelligent, instructive, and thought-provoking, and so the opposite of retail politics. It was balm on my wounded psyche, 84 minutes of sunlit good sense after a raging storm of gibberish—a panel held at the National Press Club (boo!) last week : Immigration and Less-Educated American Workers, organized by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The occasion for the panel: a new CIS report by Jason Richwine. [Report: Immigrants Replace Low-Skill Natives in the Workforce] Jason, you may recall, was the brilliant young quantitative analyst at the Heritage Foundation whose Harvard Ph.D. thesis had argued that when selecting immigrants for settlement in the U.S.A., IQ should be a factor. In 2013, in the wrangling over the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill, CultMarx Central found out about the thesis. They ordered Heritage to fire Richwine, and Heritage of course obeyed. Honest quantitative analysis on issues relating to intelligence, race, and immigration is not wanted at Conservatism, Inc.
The whole panel is on video at the CIS site. They’ve broken it into five separate video clips. First Steve Camarota, Director of Research at CIS, gives a three-minute introduction. Then Jason does a brief presentation of his paper, seventeen minutes.
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