Top expert exposes how elites are encouraging immigrants to not assimilate into American culture
An expert warned that the U.S. immigration crisis in America will continue so long as the country’s elite reject the idea of the "Americanization" of immigrants.Mark Krikorian, who is the...
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An expert warned that the U.S. immigration crisis in America will continue so long as the country’s elite reject the idea of the "Americanization" of immigrants. Mark Krikorian, who is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News Digital during an interview that one of the core drivers of declining assimilation in America is not only mass immigration itself but an ongoing "identity problem" in which the country’s elite have made assimilation a "dirty word" by rejecting American identity and exceptionalism. "It's not the immigrants’ doing, it's a problem we have where our leadership classes, whether it's government, business, education, religion, everything, aren't really sure about whether it is even a good thing to be an American," Krikorian, one of the country’s most notorious authorities on immigration policy, continued. "The idea basically here is that there is no meaning to nationhood or to peoplehood that living in the United States is kind of like living in Northern New Jersey as opposed to Southern New Jersey. You live in the United States, or you live in Mexico or you live in Swaziland, it doesn't mean anything," he explained. OVER 100 CALIFORNIA COLLEGES ACCUSED OF DISCRIMINATING AGAINST US-BORN STUDENTS IN NEW DOJ COMPLAINT "The left increasingly, even at the mainstream level, they see immigration law itself as a kind of Jim Crow, that it's immoral to keep anyone from moving to the United States if they want to. And everything stems from that," he continued. "Because if that's your worldview, then obviously law enforcement coming to round up and remove people who have no right to be here, no legal right to be here, is immoral." "So, in that context, how could we expect immigrants to Americanize successfully?" Krikorian said, adding,"What's different today from, say, 100 or 200 years ago, is we now have a leadership class that doesn't even believe in assimilation. They think Americanization is a dirty word." "My mother was a…