Kavitha Surana

Kavitha Surana is a senior reporting fellow at ProPublica covering immigration.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order to try to bring jobs back to American workers and revamp the H-1B visa guest worker program.
Social Justice

How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Trying to Reduce Legal Immigration

A new policy allowing Immigration Services employees to summarily dismiss green card applications has raised concerns among immigration lawyers and large corporations.

A man is searched while being in-processed at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement center on April 28th, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Social Justice

Immigration Agencies Are Facing Accusations of Rampant Racial Profiling

But holding the agents accountable has proven especially difficult considering the accusers are often undocumented immigrants with limited legal rights.