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    IMMIGRATION                                                        FEBRUARY 06, 2026       |  The Indian Eye 41

            or greater than the prevailing  the United States. This law reject-  to the US. The Trump adminis-    from obtaining immigration visas
            wage in the occupation through  ed George Washington’s view that  tration through Stephen Miller is  will be a lost opportunity for the
            which they have been spon-        the United States should ever be  achieving a ban on immigration  United States. The narrow mind-
            sored or through an investment  “an asylum to the oppressed and  without needing to go through  ed thinking of Trump’s main immi-
            in  the  amount  of  $800,000  to  the needy of the earth.”         legislation similar to the National  gration policy architect,  Stephen
            $1,050,000.                           The State Department’s pause  Origins Act of 1924. It is doing so  Miller,  prevents him from seeing
                The American Immigration  on immigrant visas to nationals  through executive fiat pursuant to  how these immigrants would con-
            Council has stated in a blog post  of 75 countries under the pretext  INA 212(f), which allows the pres-  tribute to the US through their
            that after obtaining a green card,  that they will receive public ben-  ident to suspend the entry of non-  achievements in science, business,
            eligible immigrants are subject to a  efits  is  a  lie.  The  real  reason  for  citizens who he deems would be  arts and many other fields of en-
            five-year waiting period before they  the pause, which follows a travel  detrimental to the United States.   deavor as well as through their de-
            may apply for SNAP (food stamps)  ban on nationals of 39 countries, is   The Trump administration’s  sire to work hard to better them-

            assistance, with limited exceptions.  to drastically restrict immigration  blocking of nearly half the world  selves and their families.
                The real reason for the pause   ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
            is because the Trump adminis-
            tration disfavors immigration to   Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Managing Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta
            the United States, irrespective   & Partners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta is a member of AILA’s Administrative Litigation Task Force; AILA’s EB-5 Com-
            of whether it is legal or illegal.   mittee; former chair of AILA’s Ethics Committee; special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary
            Trump’s senior policy  advisor  in   Committee, Appellate Division, First Department, New York; member of the ABA Commission on Immigration; board member
            the White House, Stephen Miller,     of Volunteers for Legal Services and board member of New York Immigration Coalition.  Mr. Mehta is the former chair of the
            has demonstrated xenophobic and   Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council and former chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality
            racist views towards immigrants.   Law of the New York City Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker and writer on various immigration-related issues, including
                He has admired the  National   on ethics, and is also an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches a course entitled Immigration and
            Origins Act of 1924, which provid-
            ed for an annual limit of 150,000   Work.  Mr. Mehta received the AILA 2018 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for advancing the practice of immigration law
            Europeans, a complete prohibi-    and the AILA 2011 Michael Maggio Memorial Award for his outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation in the
            tion on Japanese immigration and   immigration field. He has also received two AILA Presidential Commendations in 2010 and 2016.  Mr. Mehta is ranked among
            which preserved the already exist-  the most highly regarded lawyers in North America by Who’s Who Legal – Corporate Immigration Law 2019 and is also ranked
            ing racial and ethnic status quo of   in Chambers USA and Chambers Global 2019 in immigration law, among other rankings.

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