Amy Isackson
Border ReporterAmy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.
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An 11-year-old boy will be featured at Tijuana's Sunday afternoon bullfight. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson reached Michelito Lagravere and his father at their home in southern Mexico's Yucatan and spoke with them about how Michelito got his start.
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U.S. federal agents say the cross border tunnel they unearthed earlier this week was on its way to being a sophisticated passageway. Though, they say it would have been a tight squeeze. -
U.S. federal officials say the tunnel runs at least 640 feet into San Diego through a drain pipe the people who dug the tunnel tapped into a few feet from the border fence in Tijuana. Officials say the diggers then veered off the pipe and dug further, though they don't yet know how far.
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U.S. federal officials say the cross-border tunnel they discovered Monday afternoon does not have an exit on the San Diego side. As KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson explains federal officials say the tunnel tapped into the drainage system.
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Following a tip, U.S. and Mexican authorities are hunting for a cross-border tunnel.
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Many Tijuana business and tourism officials hope Mexico's federal government changes its plan to screen vehicles headed south into Mexico. As KPBS reporter Amy Isackson explains, Mexican customs officials say they'll start screening traffic at San Diego-Tijuana border crossings in late July.
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