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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The agency closed the popular pedestrian border crossing in December, citing an influx of illegal immigration.
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CBP plans to add to the dozens of surveillance towers that stretch from the San Ysidro Port of Entry to northern San Diego County.
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The department’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties visited camps in San Ysidro and Jacumba this month and spoke with migrants, humanitarian workers and Customs and Border Protection leaders.
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When the Biden administration began construction along the border wall separating Tijuana and San Diego County along Friendship Park, crews also destroyed historic murals that decorated the wall. Artists lamented the loss, but now see a small silver lining.
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Since mid-September, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has separated more than 1,000 migrant families processed at the San Diego-Tijuana border, according to a complaint filed by several immigrant advocacy groups.
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For decades, people have found themselves stuck in traffic for hours as they wait to cross the border north from Tijuana into San Diego. But now border wait times are increasing for those going south too.
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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.
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More than 800 migrants died while trying to enter the United States illegally during fiscal year 2022 — a new record.
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A father and son were reunited in San Ysidro after being separated for nearly two decades.
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