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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Two surfers from Ensenada have started a podcast and an Instagram account that details the history of how the sport took hold in Mexico. -
A group of migrants filed a federal complaint alleging medical negligence, retaliatory use of solitary confinement and civil rights violations. -
Researchers from UC San Diego and Mexico spent a year talking to Tijuana shopkeepers about their experiences with extortion. -
The bill, known as AB 257, creates a statewide fast-food council, which will allow workers, employers and government officials to negotiate industry standards. -
Alex Padilla said he shares in the public’s frustration over the lack of movement on immigration. He blamed it on partisan obstructionism. -
Baja California attorney general said David Lopez Jimenez, a member of the Arellano-Felix cartel, masterminded the January murder of Margarito Martinez Esquivel.
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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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