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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Chula Vista was the first city in California to be a certified Welcoming City. But officials chose not to seek recertification in 2022. -
The controversial Trump-era program only works if the Mexican government agrees to accept migrants from other countries. -
Call centers give deportees a decent wage and a community of people with shared experiences. -
Those who are allowed back to the U.S. often experience the joy of reuniting with their families, but also the pain of what they lost. -
The website had links to the Center for Immigration Studies, which the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled as an "anti-immigrant hate group." -
So far, the app is working well for some but advocates point to several drawbacks.
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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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