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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In a demonstration in front of City Hall, demonstrators called out Mayor Todd Gloria for the city’s continued practice of ticketing unsheltered people. -
In remarks at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Alejandor Mayorkas touted the economic benefits of opening the border to nonessential travel. -
City officials and advocates for asylum seekers say the restart of the controversial Trump-era program will make an already inhumane situation at the border worse. -
A controversial Trump-era policy aimed at keeping refugees out of the U.S. during the pandemic is being continued by the Biden administration. -
Almost all members of the local political and business establishment agreed that the ban on non-essential cross border travel was unfair. -
The Mexican government’s official vaccination records are riddled with errors.
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A father and son were reunited in San Ysidro after being separated for nearly two decades.
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