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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Some of the cases involve serious allegations, like an ICE agent in El Centro organizing a drug smuggling operation. -
The camp began a few weeks after the end of pandemic-era restrictions known as Title 42. -
Ludivina Vera moved into her daughter and son-in-law's National City home out of necessity due to her health. -
Border patrol did not provide food, shelter to migrants in makeshift camp, federal complaint allegesThe Southern Border Communities Coalition filed a complaint against the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. -
Local officials expressed concern about an influx of migration when Title 42, the pandemic-era asylum policy, officially ended. Those concerns did not materialize Friday. -
More than 400 men, women and children are living in a makeshift migrant camp in San Ysidro in an area between two border walls.
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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. -
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.
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