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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Tijuana is one of the favorites heading into Mexico’s national tournament in Monterrey in July. -
Compared to San Diego, public art in Tijuana's Playas de Tijuana neighborhood feels like a free-for-all. -
Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero said multiple voicemails threatening to kill her forced her indefinite move to military barracks. -
Volunteers, donations and financial support for Tijuana migrant shelters dried up during the pandemic. Now some operators say they are close to shutting down. -
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.
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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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