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    IMMIGRATION                                                              JUNE 27, 2025     |  The Indian Eye 37

                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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