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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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. -
The county gave $3 million to the nonprofit SBCS to run the center. Other immigrant rights advocates said SBCS isn't spending the money wisely. -
San Diego County's Immigrant Rights Legal Defense Program is part of a growing movement to provide people in immigration court with free legal representation. -
San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas is touting the new county-supported center while asking the federal government to provide more funding. -
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.
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Southwest isn't the only airline experiencing delays and cancellations, but it is by far the worst-hit, with about 5,500 of its flights canceled across the country in the last two days. -
A father and son were reunited in San Ysidro after being separated for nearly two decades.
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