NR’s Kate O’Beirne rallies to the defense of Heritage’s Robert Rector here.
The [WSJ] editorial, however, failed in its aim. In fact, the editorial
willfully ignored differences among different immigrant populations and
displayed little understanding of the administration of government
benefits and services. The Wall Street Journal?s
analysis was so unresponsive to Rector?s report that it would seem the
editorial?s author was simply unfamiliar with Rector?s detailed
findings.
And she gives credit where credit is due.
Rector details the government benefits typically received by the
pertinent households, fully accounting for the welfare ineligibility of
recent immigrants ? the result, we might add, of a provision in the
1996 welfare reform legislation that Rector is largely responsible for.
