Cyrus Mehta

How the Major Questions Doctrine Can Undo some of Trump’s Policies, Including On Birthright Citizenship | The Insightful Immigration Blog By Cyrus D Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* Introduced by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA, 142 S. Ct. 2587 (2022), the major questions doctrine holds that, “in certain extraordinary cases” where it is...

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Is Secretary Rubio’s Bare Bone’s Letter Deserving of Deference in Khalil’s Deportation Case? | The Insightful Immigration Blog By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* On April 11, 2025, Immigration Judge Jamee Comans in Louisiana ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestine activist, can be deported....

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Is Secretary Rubio’s Bare Bone’s Letter Deserving of Deference in Khalil’s Deportation Case? | The Insightful Immigration Blog By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* On April 11, 2025, Immigration Judge Jamee Comans in Louisiana ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestine activist, can be deported....

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Palestinian Columbia student detained by ICE at citizenship interview Mohsen Mahdawi, who has been a green-card holder for 10 years, was detained at an ICE field center in Vermont while appearing for a naturalization test.

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Trump Immigration Policies Increase Peril For International Students International students face increasing peril under Trump administration policies targeting protests, articles and social media posts.

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A Foreign Student Whose Visa Has Been Revoked by Trump Should Still Be Able to Continue to Attend School | The Insightful Immigration Blog By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* The revocation students’ visas has caused alarm and panic. Our blog advises that the revocation of a visa in the passport does not necessarily result in a violation ...

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"To taint the whole legal profession that is involved in immigration work is totally unwarranted and uncalled for, because it undermines the rule of law and it also basically demeans the good work that's been done," Mehta said www.law360.com/whitecollar/...

Trump and Dick the Butcher Have the Same Impulse: “Let’s Kill All the Lawyers” | The Insightful Immigration Blog The White House issued a memo on March 22, 2025 ominously titled Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court. The phrase “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers” is from Wil...

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Challenging the Foreign Policy Ground of Removability in Defense of Free Speech and the Rights of Green Card Holders | The Insightful Immigration Blog By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* On March 8, 2025, DHS arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist, and purportedly revoked his green card. Khalil was detained u...

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Trump's gold card will not attract brilliant people, rather it will attract money launderers and drug trqffickers. Why not reduce the skilled worker backlogs in the employment green card categories, and once these brilliant people get green cards, they will spur growth, innovation and jobs.

The Insightful Immigration Blog | Commentaries on Immigration Policy, Cases and Trends Insightful posts on contemporary immigration topics that help people in understanding and navigating the complex immigration system

While there can never be a justification to go after immigrants in a time of genuine crisis, Trump has manufactured a crisis to justify his administration’s wantonly cruel attacks on immigrants blog.cyrusmehta.com

EOIR Policy Memorandum on Inferior Officers Opens Up Claims to Invalidate Proceedings | The Insightful Immigration Blog By Cyrus D Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* Acting Director Sirce Owen of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) issued Policy Memorandum (PM) 25-23 stating that, in the context of any future person...

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The False Distinction Between Legal and Undocumented Immigrants in the Debate on Birthright Citizenship | The Insightful Immigration Blog By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, which we analyzed in a previous blog, has now been temporarily enjoined and is the subject of mult...

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Fuck the Middle Ground There's no 'common ground' with the people killing us

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The Case For USAID It does us, and others, a world of good

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Under the new standards of the Trump administration, diversity is taboo, and racism is not. I am so disappointed that so many naturalized citizens and everyone else voted for Trump when it was obvious that he was a racist and a xenophobe. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign Is Aimed at a Phantom Threat He's purging peaceful, hardworking immigrants—not 'criminal aliens'

Trump is purging peaceful, hardworking immigrants—not 'criminal aliens'
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Opinion | This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected He is making us a corrupted, brittle superpower.

Trump has scammed America and his voters www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

Opinion | Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out Trump’s presidency demands your attention.

As Trump utters "fight fight" those words are hollow as they emanate from immorality and illegality while our fight against him and his unconstitutional actions through the courts and mass protests are righteous and we will prevail www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

Inauguration Eve: The Havoc That Trump May Wreak on Immigration | The Insightful Immigration Blog President-elect Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025, is expected to usher in immigration-related actions of various kinds. What will actually happen and when, in the short term and over the long ...

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By Cyrus D. Mehta

Once MAGA claimed they were only against illegal immigrants, then they opposes asylum seekers, TPS and DACA recipients. Now they hate skilled Indian H-1Bs who are in the green card pipeline. Those who support MAGA thinking it is not racist are either fools or being fooled.

Those who voted for Trump because he has promised mass deportations should reflect on Christmas the suffering and misery this will cause to both noncitizens and their American family members. Is this what Jesus Christ wants in an American president who will instill fear on his first day in office?

As “Brain Gain” Replaces “Brian Drain” State Department Removes Many Countries Including China and India from the Two-Year Home Country Requirement | The Insightful Immigration Blog The Department of State (DOS) announced an update of the countries on the Exchange Visitors Skills List, effective December 9, 2024. This update supersedes the most recent update in 2009. DOS has remo...

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Its unconstitutional but to the fools who voted for him Trump will still try to do "a “day one” executive order directing federal agencies to require a child to have at least one parent be either a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to automatically become a U.S. citizen."

Ethical Obligations of the Attorney to Safeguard Information About a Client’s Whereabouts with a Removal Order Under Trump 2.0 | The Insightful Immigration Blog By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* The recent reelection of Donald Trump is likely to usher in a new era of enhanced immigration scrutiny and enforcement. This shift raises a number of ethical questio...

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Elon Musk cannot truly be a visionary on making life multiplanetary when he has sided with Trump who believes in walls, borders and a deportation force to keep out immigrants from exploring, moving and contributing on this planet.

Seeing Trump get away with his crimes, lies and racism is a moral wound for those who believe in an ethical and rules based order.

Immigrants Across U.S. Rush to Prepare for Trump Crackdown Donald Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations has driven fearful immigrants to seek protections and advice.

What kind of shameful legacy is Trump setting up for himself when millions are fearful of January 20, 2025 rather than looking forward to it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...

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