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    IMMIGRATION                                                              JUNE 27, 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.
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                    executive actions, but   the better the lives of young,

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