[2] Aleinikoff attended White Plains Senior High School, and received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1974.
[6] Aleinikoff specializes in immigration policy, and has written a number of books on the topic.
He has been a senior associate at the Migration Policy Institute, executive associate commissioner of programs, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at the U.S. Department of Justice[7] (it is now part of the Department of Homeland Security), and general counsel of the INS.
Aleinikoff was co-chair of the Immigration Policy Review Team for the Presidential transition of Barack Obama.
[5] As executive associate commissioner at the INS, Aleinikoff oversaw program development from 1995 to 1997.