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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At their regular meeting Tuesday, council members said the benefits of sharing data for crime fighting are worth the risk that it ends up in the hands of federal immigration officials. -
A KPBS investigation revealed that data collected by the El Cajon Police Department was used in immigration-related searches more than 550 times in 2025. -
For more than a year, Attorney General Bonta has been looking into the El Cajon Police Department’s sharing of license plate reader data with out-of-state agencies. -
As Immigration Customs Enforcement goes on a historic hiring spree, social media posts and other materials contain coded language, experts say. -
The lawsuit filed in federal court by a San Diego law firm says the ICE strategy of arresting asylum seekers who show up for their immigration court hearings violates their rights and delegitimizes the legal process. -
The San Diego County supervisor says local action is needed because the Trump administration is cutting federal funding that covers legal representation for children in immigration court.
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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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