Study: Conservative Anti-Immigration Paper by Controversial Scholar Had Basic Errors

The Heritage Foundation report on the costs of immigration reform co-authored by controversial scholar Jason Richwine has been widely debunked, and Richwine himself has resigned from Heritage in the wake of revelations about his history of arguing that blacks and Latinos are dumber than Jews and Irish people. But Richwine's study was even worse than previously thought, according to a new Harvard University Scholars Strategy Network brief (PDF) by Richard Alba, a graduate professor of sociology a...