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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Lawyers representing detainees at San Diego County’s Otay Mesa Detention Center say overcrowding is forcing their clients to sleep on the floors of their cells and damaging their health. -
Between 30,000 and 70,000 children adopted by American families from other countries never became U.S. citizens, according to the Adoptee Rights Campaign. -
The funding bill allocates $75 billion to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. KPBS reporter Gustavo Solis spoke with Adam Isacson from the Washington Office on Latin America about how that could impact ICE arrests, detentions and deportations. -
Sayed Sadat came to San Diego from Afghanistan almost three years ago. His father is still stranded there despite his work for the U.S. Military. -
Data shows a dramatic increase in immigrant detention since President Donald Trump took office in January. The most dramatic increase has been for people without criminal records. -
After receiving a letter from the California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the police department has vowed to stop sharing information gleaned from it’s Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) program.
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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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