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IMMIGRATION JULY 04, 2025 | The Indian Eye 36
The Inherently
Moral Executive Actions
on Immigration Cannot
Die Under Trump
BY CYRUS MEHTA & rescind automatic consid- of work authorization based they did, from the State De- undocumented people who
eration of deferred action on deferred action, but may partment’s dual date visa came to the U.S. as children.
KAITLYN BOX*
for noncitizens classed as also leave them vulnerable bulletin to deferred action Without this policy, hun-
Special Immigrant Juveniles to deportation. to parole for beneficiaries of dreds of thousands wouldn’t
he Trump administra- (SIJ) who are unable to able By way of justification approved visa petitions wait- have accessed higher edu-
tion is doing its best to
Tkill executive actions for adjustment of status due for its policy, the administra- ing outside the US. cation, started careers, en-
Most recently, the US-
joyed the relative stability to
to visa unavailability. This tion asserts that “Congress…
that benefit vulnerable non- harsh measure will not only did not expressly permit de- CIS recognized that the fil- start their families and con-
citizens. In a June 6, 2025 deprive noncitizens classi- ferred action and related ing date in the dual visa bul- tributed to the US in myriad
Policy Alert, the administra- fied as SIJ who are trapped employment authorization letin could protect the age ways through their skills and
tion announced that it would
in the lengthy EB-4 backlog for this [SIJ] population. of the child under the Child talents.
Neither an alien having Status Protection Act, which
an approved Petition for Cyrus Mehta recommended At the same time, with
Amerasian, Widow(er), in 2021. Even while Trump
or Special Immigrant tries to snuff out executive each passing DACA an-
(Form I-360) without an actions that provide amelio- niversary, there is tre-
immediately available rative relief, the blueprints
immigrant visa available for different executive ac- mendous uncertainty
nor a juvenile court de- tions outlined in Tyranny of as the Trump Admin-
termination relating to Priority Dates can never die,
the best interest of the and should be protected and istration attempted to
SIJ are sufficiently com- brought to life. strip DACA recipients
pelling reasons, support- June 15, 2025, marked
ed by any existing statute the 13th anniversary of the of their protections; an
or regulation, to contin- Deferred Action for Child- attack on the policy that
ue to provide a deferred hood Arrivals (DACA) pro- continues in the courts
action process for this gram. DACA was created
immigrant category.” in 2012 to offer deportation today. The legal fight
In Tyranny of Prior- relief and work permits to will continue into the
ity Dates, Gary Endel- young immigrants who were
man and Cyrus Mehta brought to the U.S. as chil- Supreme Court. Regard-
laid the ground work for dren. less of how the Supreme
how executive actions While DACA has al-
m of can be used to provide lowed hundreds of thou- Court rules on DACA,
CYRUS D. MEHTA & PARTNERS PLLC ameliorative relief to sands of Dreamers to pur- Congress must step in
millions of noncitizens sue education and careers, it
remains under legal threat, and provide protection
caught in the crushing
backlogs in the legal with new applications cur- to legal dreamers with a
immigration system. It rently blocked. Still, even
pathway to citizenship.
was unimaginable that if DACA is on a respirator,
the ideas proposed in it allows recipients to con- DACA is too precious to
this groundbreaking tinue to live, work, prosper
article in 2010 would and contribute to America. be lost and for dreams
have resulted in actual DACA has transformed for to shatter.
2 6th Floor
executive actions, but the better the lives of young,
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