Muzaffar Chishti
Muzaffar Chishti, a lawyer, is an MPI Senior Fellow and Director of the MPI office at New York University School of Law. His work focuses on U.S. immigration policy at the federal, state, and local levels; the intersection of labor and immigration law; immigration enforcement; civil liberties; and immigrant integration.
Prior to joining MPI, Mr. Chishti was Director of the Immigration Project of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE).
Mr. Chishti serves on the board of the New York Immigration Coalition. He has served as Chairman of the Boards of Directors of the National Immigration Forum and the National Immigration Law Center, as a member of the American Bar Association’s Coordinating Committee on Immigration, and on the board of the Asian American Federation.
Mr. Chishti has testified extensively on immigration policy issues before Congress and is frequently quoted in the media. In 1992, as part of a U.S. team, he assisted the Russian Parliament in drafting its legislation on forced migrants and refugees. He is a 1994 recipient of the New York State Governor's Award for Outstanding Asian Americans and a 1995 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Mr. Chishti was educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; the University of Delhi; Cornell Law School; and the Columbia School of International Affairs.
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IRCA in Retrospect: Guideposts for Today’s Immigration Reform
The statutory design flaws of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, not just implementation failures, enabled the unauthorized population growth it sought to eliminate.
Alabama Settlement Marks Near End of a Chapter in State Immigration Enforcement Activism
Alabama's settlement gutting HB 56 marked the end of a period of state omnibus laws targeting unauthorized immigration.
As Immigration Reform Stalls in Congress, Activists Take a Page from the Civil-Rights Movement
Stalled immigration reform sparked a 2013 shift to civil disobedience, with 200 activists and eight members of Congress arrested near the Capitol in a single day.
State Access to Federal Immigration Data Stirs New Controversy in Debate over Voting Rights
Iowa joined Florida and Colorado in using a federal benefits tool for voter purges, even as data revealed very few noncitizen voters.
Now that the Senate Has Passed Landmark Immigration Legislation, All Eyes Are on the House
Republican divisions in the U.S. House of Representatives threatened to stall the most sweeping overhaul since 1965.
As Senate Debates Immigration Reform, CBO and New Studies Examine Effects of Immigration on Nation's Fiscal Health
The Congressional Budget Office projected immigration reform would reduce the federal deficit by $175 billion over ten years.
As Congress Tackles Immigration Legislation, State Lawmakers Retreat from Strict Measures
Few predicted that U.S. states racing to restrict immigration in 2011 would, by 2013, be doubling driver's license access for unauthorized immigrants and enacting tuition parity.
Sweeping Senate Bill Sets the Stage for Fundamental Overhaul of U.S. Immigration System
While most public attention has focused on the prospect legalization for millions of immigrants, S. 744's deeper ambition was to shift U.S. immigration to labor market-driven admissions.
Sequester Affects Immigration Enforcement — and Invites Attention to Detention Policy
When the U.S. sequester forced the release of 2,228 immigration detainees, the political fallout spotlighted the high cost and contested logic of U.S. immigration detention.
Immigration Reform Returns to Center Stage of U.S. Politics
For the first time since 2007, bipartisan U.S. immigration reform proposals put legalization for unauthorized immigrants on the table.