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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Construction crews are replacing a stretch of border fence between San Diego and Tijuana that had become a symbol of those who died crossing the border. -
KPBS Midday EditionRodney Scott, chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector, says President Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy remains in effect but due to limited detention space, not every person caught crossing the border illegally is being criminally prosecuted. -
Amid a public outcry over the Trump administration's family separation policy, the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center in Normal Heights is helping asylum-seekers with necessities like beds. -
KPBS Midday EditionHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and more than a dozen members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus came to San Diego to tour detention facilities and see the first-hand the effects of the Trump Administration’s family separation policies. -
About 10 percent of the children at Casa San Diego were separated from their parents by the U.S. government, according to the shelter's operators. -
The fast-track prosecution program Operation Streamline is supposed to help implement the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” for illegal border crossings by handling cases in groups rather than individually.
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