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 department’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties visited camps in San Ysidro and Jacumba this month and spoke with migrants, humanitarian workers and Customs and Border Protection leaders. -
When the Biden administration began construction along the border wall separating Tijuana and San Diego County along Friendship Park, crews also destroyed historic murals that decorated the wall. Artists lamented the loss, but now see a small silver lining. -
Since mid-September, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has separated more than 1,000 migrant families processed at the San Diego-Tijuana border, according to a complaint filed by several immigrant advocacy groups. -
For decades, people have found themselves stuck in traffic for hours as they wait to cross the border north from Tijuana into San Diego. But now border wait times are increasing for those going south too. -
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors allocated $3 million to fund a migrant welcome center in October. On Tuesday, they voted to provide another $3 million. -
This year will be the fourth straight that admissions to UC San Diego Health hospitals due to falls from the border wall will set a new record. The streak started in 2019, when the Trump administration raised the border wall height from 17 to 30 feet.
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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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