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In a January 20, 2025 Exec- ministrations to provide ameliora- blueprints for future enlightened The movement must continue
utive Order entitled “Protecting tive relief to millions of vulnerable immigrant and immigrant- friendly to swell until the Trump adminis-
the American People Against In- immigrants left unprotected due administrations to re-activate, as tration realizes that being a dictator
vasion”, the Trump administration to our imperfect immigration laws well as serving as models for fu- to immigrants will backfire and will
purported to remove the ability for which Congress has proved inca- ture legislation. In the meantime, drive him and his minions out of of-
immigration officials to exercise pable of amending over the past today, across the country, people fice and into the dustbin of history.
prosecutorial discretion. Notwith- few decades. Even if Trump disfa- are marching to stand up to abuse
standing the executive order, how- vors executive actions that are in- of power, unlawful detentions and *Kaitlyn Box is a Partner at
ever, prosecutorial discretion as a herently moral and do good, these the cruel and unjust termination of Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC.
concept is embedded in our immi- concepts will continue to remain immigration programs.
gration system and can never truly ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
die. Even Trump himself seems to Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Managing Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta
have acknowledged recently that
immigration enforcement taken to & Partners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta is a member of AILA’s Administrative Litigation Task Force; AILA’s EB-5 Com-
the most aggressive extremes may mittee; former chair of AILA’s Ethics Committee; special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary
have a deleterious impact.
The administration has re- Committee, Appellate Division, First Department, New York; member of the ABA Commission on Immigration; board member
portedly asked Immigration and of Volunteers for Legal Services and board member of New York Immigration Coalition. Mr. Mehta is the former chair of the
Customs Enforcement (ICE) to
“largely pause raids and arrests in Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council and former chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality
the agricultural industry, hotels Law of the New York City Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker and writer on various immigration-related issues, including
and restaurants”, recognizing that
apprehending and detaining immi- on ethics, and is also an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches a course entitled Immigration and
grant workers in these key indus- Work. Mr. Mehta received the AILA 2018 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for advancing the practice of immigration law
tries was likely to harm the U.S.
economy and generate a public and the AILA 2011 Michael Maggio Memorial Award for his outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation in the
backlash. immigration field. He has also received two AILA Presidential Commendations in 2010 and 2016. Mr. Mehta is ranked among
Ameliorative executive actions
such as deferred action and parole the most highly regarded lawyers in North America by Who’s Who Legal – Corporate Immigration Law 2019 and is also ranked
have long been used by prior ad- in Chambers USA and Chambers Global 2019 in immigration law, among other rankings.

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