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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Mexican authorities often make a show of announcing arrests in high-profile cases, but then offer scant details, activists and reporters say. -
The congressman representing San Diego’s border region is calling out the administration for continuing two of former President Donald Trump’s most controversial asylum policies. -
The new port of entry could drastically reduce border wait times, but only if there are enough Customs and Border Protection agents to staff it. -
Three men were apprehended in connection to the fatal shooting of Tijuana journalist Lourdes Maldonado.
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Nearly 50 people have drowned over the past six years in the All-American Canal, which runs along the southern border in Imperial County. -
Mexican authorities have evicted 381 migrants from a makeshift camp they had been staying in for almost a year in Tijuana.
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A father and son were reunited in San Ysidro after being separated for nearly two decades.
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