rector, robt

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="F0F0F0">Robert E. RectorBorn: ?
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/199/000068992/" class="proflink" style="text-decoration: none;">Activist</a>
Party Affiliation: RepublicanNationality: United States
Executive summary: Heritage Foundation    University: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/edu/786/000068582/">BA, College of William and Mary</a>
    University: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/edu/633/000068429/">MA Political Science, Johns Hopkins University</a>
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/489/000049342/">The Heritage Foundation</a> Senior Research Fellow, Domestic Policy Studies
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/gov/259/000127875/">Office of Personnel Management</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/175/000167671/">Bush-Cheney '04</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/082/000167578/">Bush-Cheney 2000</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/584/000207960/">McCain-Palin Victory 2008</a> 
    <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/316/000058142/">Swift Boat Veterans for Truth</a> 
=<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; font-family: sans-serif; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fighting Immigration Reform</h3>As a response to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/earned-citizenship" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E") 100% 50%;">earned citizenship</a> provisions of the comprehensive immigration reform bill under debate in the U.S. Senate as of May 2013, Robert Rector, a Heritage research fellow, and Jason Richwine, policy analyst, released a special report on immigration entitled <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/05/the-fiscal-cost-of-unlawful-immigrants-and-amnesty%20to-the-us-taxpayer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E") 100% 50%;">"The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer"</a>. The co-authors estimated that the cost of offering a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants (part of a plan by a bipartisan group of senators to overhaul the immigration system), would create a “lifetime fiscal deficit” for the government of $6.3 trillion. This cost estimate was based on several big assumptions (that the majority of immigrants formerly in the country illegally will eventually use government programs for low-income Americans, for example) and was rejected by many conservatives.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#cite_note-NYT-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a>The report was highly criticized by both the left and the right, with prominent conservatives speaking out against it.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#cite_note-NYT-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Haley_Barbour" title="Haley Barbour" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Haley Barbour</a>, a Republican leader and former governor of Mississippi, called the report a "political document" and stated, "This gigantic cost figure that the Heritage Foundation puts out is actually the cost over 50 years. If you put the 50-year cost of anything in front of the public, it is going to be a huge number."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#cite_note-NYT-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a> Even anti-tax activist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Grover Norquist</a> denounced the study, claiming the cost estimate was "wildly overblown."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#cite_note-NYT-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a> Norquist's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Tax_Reform" title="Americans for Tax Reform" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Americans for Tax Reform</a> spoke out against the report, aruging that the underlying analysis only focused on costs while ignoring all the benefits of the immigration bill.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a>The study was further discredited when the Washington Post brought to light that co-author, Jason Richwine, had argued in his Harvard doctoral thesis, "IQ and Immigration Policy," that Hispanic immigrants have lower IQ's than white Americans and that the U.S. would ameliorate problems by only selecting high-IQ immigrants.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a> Amid the controversy, Richwine, resigned from the Heritage Foundation.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a>Despite criticism, Heritage President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jim_DeMint" title="Jim DeMint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jim DeMint</a> stood by the controversial study saying, "There’s no doubt that these numbers are real.”<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a></td></tr></tbody></table>