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    IMMIGRATION                                                       NOVEMBER 28, 2025        |  The Indian Eye 35

            without fear. Lawyers should also be   tive that immigrants harm the coun-  anyone.”                      “New York will remain a city
            prepared to challenge the unconsti-  try. The truth has always been clear:   The king understood, and the   of immigrants, a city built by immi-
            tutional detentions of noncitizens   Immigrants are good for America.   Parsis went on to enrich India in im-  grants, powered by immigrants, and
            through habeas corpus petitions in                                  measurable ways— economically, cul-  as of tonight led by an immigrant.”
            federal court.                    The Parsi Parable: A Lesson for Our Time  turally, intellectually, and spiritually.  That is the power of immigrant
                The March 2025 White House                                          That story captures everything   communities.
            memo attacking immigration lawyers         hen a group of  Zoroastrian   immigration truly represents:    That is how we resist authoritar-
                                                       known as Parsis fled Persia
            and Big Law pro bono programs was   Wand sought refuge in India          Newcomers do not weaken      ianism.
            designed to intimidate us. It echoes the   over a thousand years ago, the local   a society—they enrich it.  And that is why we must contin-
            famous line from Henry VI: “The first   king sent them a vessel filled to the                         ue to fight—for justice, for humani-
            thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”  brim with milk, signaling that his land   They do not overflow the vessel—they   ty, and for the sweetness that immi-
                The memo claimed lawyers were                                         transform it for the better.  grants, like sugar in milk, bring to
            undermining national security mere-  was full.                                                        every nation that welcomes them.
                                                  The  Parsi  leader  asked for  a
            ly for representing asylum seekers.   spoonful of sugar. He stirred it gen-   IMMIGRANT POWER TODAY     (This blog is based Cyrus Mehta’s
            But under the Immigration and Na-  tly into the milk without spilling a   ohran Mamdani’s victory in   prepared remarks as a keynote speaker
            tionality  Act,  people  fleeing  perse-  drop, saying: “Like this sugar, we will   New York is one such modern   at an IndiXspark event on November
            cution have an absolute right to file   sweeten your land without displacing  Ztestament. In his words:    15, 2025 in New York City)
            asylum claims. Ethical lawyers do
            not file fraudulent cases. Represent-  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
            ing the vulnerable is not a threat to   Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Managing Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta & Part-
            America—it is a reflection of Amer-  ners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta is a member of AILA’s Administrative Litigation Task Force; AILA’s EB-5 Committee; former
            ica at its best.
                                              chair of AILA’s Ethics Committee; special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Appellate Di-
                     The Path Forward         vision, First Department, New York; member of the ABA Commission on Immigration; board member of Volunteers for Legal Services
                                              and board member of New York Immigration Coalition.  Mr. Mehta is the former chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Im-
                     e must vote out politicians   migration Council and former chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law of the New York City Bar Association. He
                     who fear-monger on immi-  is a frequent speaker and writer on various immigration-related issues, including on ethics, and is also an adjunct professor of law at
            Wgration and lack the cour-       Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches a course entitled Immigration and Work.  Mr. Mehta received the AILA 2018 Edith Lowenstein
            age to reform the system. We need a   Memorial Award for advancing the practice of immigration law and the AILA 2011 Michael Maggio Memorial Award for his outstand-
            rational immigration framework with
            more legal pathways to unite families   ing efforts in providing pro bono representation in the immigration field. He has also received two AILA Presidential Commendations
            and allow people to work in the US.  in 2010 and 2016.  Mr. Mehta is ranked among the most highly regarded lawyers in North America by Who’s Who Legal – Corporate
                We must reject the false narra-  Immigration Law 2019 and is also ranked in Chambers USA and Chambers Global 2019 in immigration law, among other rankings.

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