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IMMIGRATION NOVEMBER 22, 2024 | The Indian Eye 32
Saving America
by Defending Clients
Against Trump’s
Immigration Policies
BY CYRUS D. MEHTA AND Trump once promised to Miller, who has espoused
“staple a green card to ev- notoriously anti-immigrant
KAITLYN BOX*
ery diploma” of graduates views, is expected to be ap-
of U.S. colleges, and has pointed Deputy Chief of
n November 5, 2024, cultivated relationships with Staff, and will doubtless in-
Donald Trump was
Oonce again elected business moguls like Elon fluence Trump’s immigra-
Musk and Vivek Ganapathy tion policies. In a post on X
president. Although Trump’s Ramaswamy. last year, Miller confirmed
campaign has been marked However, a second that a denaturalization proj-
by anti-immigrant rhetoric, Trump presidency is likely ect started during Trump’s
some hope that a second to create obstacles even for first term would be “turbo-
Trump administration will legal skilled immigrants. For- charged” in 2025. During his
prove favorable to employ- mer Trump advisor Stephen campaign, Trump affirmed
ment-based immigration.
his intention to end birth-
right citizenship. For In-
dian-born beneficiaries
of approved I-140 peti-
tions who are trapped in
the employment-based
second (EB-2) and third
(EB-3) preference back-
logs, being sponsored by
a U.S.-born adult child
may provide a chance
of obtaining permanent
residence without wait-
ing for decades. Trump’s
proposed policies would
ensure that even chil-
dren born in the U.S.
would not be afforded
the security of U.S. cit-
izenship unless one of but the current conservation randum stating that computer
their parents is a U.S. cit- composition of the Supreme programmer positions may
izen or lawful permanent Court could render these ef- not be “specialty occupa-
m of resident, as well as pre- forts more difficult. tions”, and imposing onerous
CYRUS D. MEHTA & PARTNERS PLLC vent these children from The Trump administra- documentary requirements
sponsoring their parents
for permanent residence tion will seek to thwart em- on employers who place
in future. This policy, if ployment-based immigration employees at third-par-
implemented, could be in other ways, as well. During ty worksite, as discussed at
his first term, Trump restrict- length in prior blogs. Restric-
challenged in federal
court as violations of the through increased numbers pected to return, and possibly
ed the H-1B visa program tions of this nature are ex-
14th Amendment, which of Requests for Evidence intensify, during Trump’s sec-
provides that “all persons (RFEs) challenging the pay- ond term.
born […] in the Unit-
2 6th Floor ed States…are citizens ment of Level 1 wages, prom- Undocumented immi-
of the United States”,
ulgation of a policy memo- grants and beneficiaries of
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