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. -
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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.
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