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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After a rocky start, most of the bugs in the app have been fixed. But migrant advocates say it’s created a two-tiered asylum system. -
Monday’s downpour wreaked havoc on a city already vulnerable to storms due to crumbling infrastructure. -
Millions of Mexicans living in the United States could vote in what experts say is one of Mexico’s most important presidential elections ever. But historically, this group has stayed away from the polls. -
A post from the Republican San Diego County supervisor wrongly stated that taxpayers are paying for the care of migrants at the camps in Jacumba. -
The agency closed the popular pedestrian border crossing in December, citing an influx of illegal immigration. -
CBP plans to add to the dozens of surveillance towers that stretch from the San Ysidro Port of Entry to northern San Diego County.
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During the Trump era, few issues have received more attention than migrant crime. But it's also been the subject of much misinformation. -
A judge has ruled that migrant children in makeshift camps along the border waiting to be processed by Border Patrol are in the agency’s custody. -
More than 800 migrants died while trying to enter the United States illegally during fiscal year 2022 — a new record.
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