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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.
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Like those in New York, Massachusetts’ local communities have been stressed by the sheer number of migrants placed in their state. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
«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 daughter of immigrants, went to public school in the 30s and 40s outside Boston, and she was taught to memorize the Gettysburg Address and George Washington was the father of our country and they sang Hail Columbia in school. You think they’re doing that in the L.A. Unified School District now, or in New York, or in the school district outside of Boston my mother went to? No!» he said. «They teach American kids to, at best, be ambivalent about America, depending on the school district, even hate America.»
«Until that changes,» he went on, «admitting large numbers of people, even legally, is frankly a bad idea.»
President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have embarked on an intensive immigration enforcement agenda. With over 515,000 illegal aliens deported since Trump took office in January, the administration is on track to significantly exceed the record number of illegals deported out of the United States.
However, Krikorian warned that deportations will not be a complete solution to the problem.
«We now have the largest percentage of our population foreign-born ever recorded in American history. It’s close to 16% now. That’s more than it was during even the Ellis Island era … we’ve never been here before,» Krikorian said.
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Anti-ICE rioters and police face-off in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Jamie Vera/Fox News)
This is further coupled with the rise of technology, which Krikorian said makes it less important for immigrants to integrate into their new communities.
«Newcomers don’t have to really cut off ties in the way that they had to do in the past,» he said. «In the old days, immigrating meant you had no choice but to reorient your emotional and psychological attachments to the new country … Nowadays, you can FaceTime home every day. You can hop on a plane and go to your cousin’s wedding in Bogota for a three-day weekend.»
The solution, in Krikorian’s estimation, is U.S. leaders, from the president to schoolteachers, embracing American identity. With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence coming in 2026, Krikorian said there is a «real opportunity» for «a whole year-long process of starting to change the narrative and have that narrative percolate down to local institutions, individual schools, individual congregations, individual businesses, and kind of reverse this idea that America stinks and you shouldn’t want to become part of it.»
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«We have succeeded in Americanizing large numbers of people in the past from very different societies,» he said.
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«It’s harder to do now, but we can do it,» he went on. «We have a real serious challenge ahead of us, but they’re challenges that we can meet if we respond.»
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President Maduro’s appeal to oil-rich nations Sunday laid bare just how isolated he has become, a Latin American oil expert says, before describing Venezuela as «broke» and drowning in $150 billion of debt.
The Venezuelan dictator’s plea came in a letter in which he appealed to OPEC for support, claiming that U.S. «direct aggression» was undermining Venezuela’s energy sector and threatening global oil stability.
In a letter to OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais and published by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil, Maduro wrote, «I hope to count on your best efforts to help stop this aggression, which is growing stronger and seriously threatens the balance of the international energy market, both for producing and consuming countries.»
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Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s president, during a press conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«OPEC is unlikely to get involved,» Francisco J. Monaldi, Latin American Energy Policy Director, told Fox News Digital.
«Saudi Arabia is the key player, and they will not want to confront the Trump Administration. But more importantly, they never get involved in this kind of conflict,» he added.
In his plea, Maduro argued that U.S. actions were designed to «destabilize» Venezuela and urged oil-producing nations to show solidarity.
The U.S. imposed sanctions on Venezuela targeting government officials, state-run industries like oil and mining, and financial transactions in response to concerns over corruption, trafficking and human-rights abuses.
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President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro looks on during a meeting with the ‘Consejo Nacional de Economía Productiva’ (English: National Council of Productive Economy) at Humboldt Hotel on September 21, 2023 in Caracas, Venezuela. (Carlos Becerra/Getty Images)
His request followed President Trump’s order to close U.S. airspace over Venezuela, a move that tightened Washington’s pressure campaign and further restricted the regime’s ability to carry out international business.
Yet Monaldi stressed that Maduro knows his appeal was only symbolic and had «framed» the situation to suit his own narrative over oil.
«Maduro knows perfectly well that he is not going to get the reaction that he would want, but is framing the conflict as a conflict about oil,» he argued.
«Venezuela could once again become a major oil producer and produce about 4 million barrels a day in less than a decade, significantly quadrupling their current output.
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Maduro appealed to OPEC and claimed US aggression. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)
«The country could increase production if the oil sector is opened fully to private foreign investment, and that requires regime change.
Four million barrels of oil per day will be the equivalent of about $90 billion per year in revenues, which is similar to what Venezuela received in the best of times.
The income could allow Venezuela to pay the debt back and recover swiftly, micro, economically, although it will take years to get to that figure.»
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Sept. 20, 2023: Migrants mostly from Venezuela move into Eagle Pass, Texas. (Fox News)
«Now Venezuela is a country that is broke and has $150 billion of debt,» he said.
Tensions escalated further this week after a call between President Trump and Maduro, in which Trump said the Venezuelan leader should step down and leave the country, a direct push toward political transition.
«A regime change is something that the U.S., if they can achieve it, would consider a positive outcome,» Monaldi said.
But he emphasized that Washington’s goals extend beyond energy. Venezuela, he said, has endured years of mismanagement and instability, making it not necessarily a safe bet.
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The broader U.S. priority, he added, is maintaining the Western Hemisphere.
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«The U.S. has priorities to preserve the Western Hemisphere as a region in which geopolitical rivals are not strong,» Monaldi said.
«The U.S. wants to reduce crime and drug trafficking in the region and the negative effects that Venezuela has had, you know, that have impacted the rest of the Latin American region,» he added.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he still likes «Elon a lot,» despite their high-profile split earlier this year over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
At the end of the administration’s monthly Cabinet meeting, FOX Business’ Edward Lawrence asked Trump whether Musk was «back in [his] circle of friends» after their falling-out.
Trump responded: «Well, I really don’t know. I mean, I like Elon a lot.» He praised Musk’s endorsement during the 2024 campaign before noting their disagreement over electric-vehicle policy.
Musk was a fixture in the White House in the early days of the second Trump administration as he took on the role as the Department of Government Efficiency’s de facto leader. He served as a special government employee with the Trump administration to help lead DOGE, frequently attending Cabinet meetings and joining Trump during public events. Musk’s tenure with DOGE wrapped up at the end of May.
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President Donald Trump said he likes Elon Musk «a lot» after the pair faced a rift over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this year. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Musk had also championed Trump during the 2024 election cycle, criss-crossing battleground states that ultimately all voted for the Republican candidate over former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump repeatedly celebrated Musk for his efforts at DOGE to remove potential federal overspending, fraud and mismanagement – an effort assailed by government employees and Democrats who protested both the Trump administration and Musk repeatedly earlier this year.
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The cozy friendship fell to pieces in June, however, when Musk began publicly ridiculing the «One Big Beautiful Bill,» which was a massive piece of legislation Trump signed into law in July that advances his agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt.
Musk railed against the legislation, which Trump had been rallying Republican lawmakers to pass since the beginning of his second term, posting on X that it would be the «BIGGEST DEBT ceiling increase in HISTORY» and also claimed in a personal attack on Trump that «@RealDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files.»
Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Feb. 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Trump previously told the media that his relationship with Musk changed when he began discussing plans to eliminate the electic vehicle mandate, which would affect Musk’s signature electric company, Tesla. Trump signed a trio of congressional resolutions in June ending California’s restrictive rules for diesel engines and mandates on electric vehicle sales, with Trump celebrating that his signature «will kill the California mandates forever.»
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The pair abruptly parted ways in June, with Musk weeks later offering some support to Trump’s presidential actions on social media, such as praising a ceasefire deal between Israel and Gaza in July.
President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Musk was seen physically back in Trump’s orbit in September during the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA’s founder who was assassinated on Sept. 10. The pair was seen sitting next to each other and chatting during the ceremony.
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Musk most recently attended a Trump event on Nov. 18 at the White House for a dinner with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, as well as dozens of high-profile business leaders.
Trump’s latest remarks on Musk unfolded during his Cabinet meeting, which marked his ninth such meeting since the start of his second administration and matched the total number of full Cabinet meetings former President Joe Biden held across his four-year tenure.
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