Jean Guerrero
Investigative ReporterJean Guerrero is a former KPBS reporter with extensive experience covering Latin America. Her KPBS reporting focused on family separations at the border, Trump's wall, deportations, and migrant caravan. Her work was recognized by the San Diego Press Club, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Pacific Southwest Chapter, and the Society for Professional Journalists, including "Best Body Of Work" in 2018.
She started her career at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Mexico City as a foreign correspondent. She won the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize in 2016. Her book "Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir" was published in 2018 by One World (Random House).
Jean holds a B.A. in journalism and a minor in neuroscience from the University of Southern California. She also has an MFA degree in creative nonfiction from Goucher College.
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A bill by Rep. Juan Vargas is aimed at curbing abuse at Mexican farms. -
A late-season Pacific storm that brought record rainfall to San Diego County along with flooding and gusty winds doused the region Friday. -
Two months into a strike by Baja California farmworkers, the Mexican government has promised significant improvements in their working conditions, and gave preliminary approval of a wage increase. -
Southern Border Communities Coalition members said people often fail to report abuses by U.S. Customs and Border Protection when they are detained, questioned or searched. -
Some Baja California farmworkers are still on strike despite a 15 percent wage increase offered by growers. -
Immigration officials consider humanitarian parole applications from five Mexicans with U.S.-citizen families. They say their U.S. relatives have experienced adverse circumstances from the separation.
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