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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The special election will go to a runoff, according to a KPBS race call. -
County Supervisor Jim Desmond and other San Diego Republicans called for a border shutdown over concerns that Hamas terrorists might enter the United States. -
Both of Imperial Beach's iconic sculptures — Surfhenge and the Spirit of Imperial Beach — are an homage to the city's surf history. -
Humanitarian workers continue to criticize Customs and Border Protection's treatment of migrants in Jacumba and San Ysidro after a 29-year-old woman died. -
The HOME Act would have limited cooperation between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. -
Humanitarian workers are denouncing the incident as an illegal and warrantless search targeting some of Tijuana’s most vulnerable migrant populations.
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A father and son were reunited in San Ysidro after being separated for nearly two decades.
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