Mark Krikorian is a right-wing American activist who has been the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an American anti-immigration think tank. Since 1995. Krikorian has been a contributor to National Review, a conservative publication. Krikorian is credited with popularizing the concept of illegal immigrant self-deportation with the term "attrition through enforcement", and is an advisor to Project 2025, a right-wing conservative political initiative by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.