Erin Siegal
Reporter, Fronteras DeskErin Siegal is part of the Fronteras Desk reporting team, based in San Diego at KPBS. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, a Soros Justice Fellow, and a Redux Pictures photographer. She was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Erin is the author of the award-winning book Finding Fernanda, (Beacon Press 2012), which examines organized crime and child trafficking in international adoption between Guatemala and the U.S. Previously, she wrote a column on public records and government accountability for the Columbia Journalism Review, "The FOIA Watchdog." She's contributed to various media outlets, including Univision, the New York Times, Time, Reuters, Newsweek, O Magazine, Businessweek, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico. When she's not eating tacos or working, Erin can be found along the border at Rancho Los Amigos, riding horses and smoking cigars with her favorite vaqueros.
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As federal health agencies change their approach to vaccine policy leaving access for COVID shots uncertain, some states are taking things into their own hands. -
A report that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has promised will come out this month will look at the causes of autism. Many worry it will have claims unsupported by science. -
In the past, the federal government has taken stakes in American companies during wars or economic crises. But now the government's motivation has more to do with the race for AI chips and technology. -
In India's bustling megacities, honking is a common form of communication among drivers. But in this case, one person's language is another person's noise pollution. -
President Trump threatened the city with the deportation of undocumented immigrants, posting a reference to the film Apocalypse Now with the quote: "I love the smell of deportations in the morning." -
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections for more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela who live in the United States.
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- Charlie Kirk, who helped build support for Trump among young people, dies after campus shooting
- San Diego Supervisors unanimously deny Cottonwood Sand Mine developer's appeal
- VA Secretary defends staff reductions, anti-union moves at agency during San Diego visit
- San Diego class-action suit says ICE courthouse arrests are illegal