Gustavo Solis
Investigative Border ReporterGustavo became the Investigative Border Reporter at KPBS in 2021. He was born in Mexico City, grew up in San Diego and has two passports to prove it. He graduated from Columbia University’s School of Journalism in 2013 and has worked in New York City, Miami, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and San Diego. In 2018 he was part of a team of reporters who shared a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. When he’s not working - and even sometimes when he should be - Gustavo is surfing on both sides of the border.
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Local shelters say they’ve received more than a dozen pets from people who were deported this year. And that’s likely and undercount. -
In what lawyers are saying is a new escalation of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation program, Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents are arresting people during their green card appointments, the last step before becoming a permanent resident. -
Dozens of businesses and homeowners associations around San Diego allow law enforcement to search through data from their license plate readers, including Home Depot, Lowe's, and local malls. -
Immigration lawyers who have little experience with habeas corpus petitions are turning to informal networks and a software developer from Chicago to help them with their cases. -
Lawyers and advocates say the Trump administration is essentially rewriting the rules to deny people due process in immigration court. As a result, the number of habeas corpus petitions has skyrocketed in recent months. -
Legally, ICE has to release arrest and detention data. However, because of the government shutdown, that data hasn't been published for months, raising concerns about transparency.
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Federal agents detained Viktoriia Bulavina, who is married to a U.S. citizen, following a green card interview late last week.
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Viktoriia Bulavina’s lawyers say her detention marks a new escalation in the Trump administration’s sweeping crackdown on immigration. -
Immigration agents arrested Kyungjin Yu, an immigrant from South Korea, because she overstayed her visa, Department of Homeland Security officials told KPBS.
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