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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An organizer for a migrant rights group was released from a Tijuana jail after he was arrested on charges of "affronting police." -
Several asylum seekers allege the air conditioning in a holding area of the Otay Mesa detention facility was broken for nearly a week and that they can't tolerate the heat. -
A San Diego federal judge Friday approved the latest reunification plan as more than 500 immigrant children remain separated from their parents. -
California state senators passed a resolution asking the nation’s top leaders to apologize to immigrant children separated from their parents. -
A family in East County is asking for help after the Trump administration revoked certain protections for people with pending private immigration bills in Congress. -
A Tijuana artist is painting murals to raise awareness about the Trump administration’s family separations in San Diego.
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