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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The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce is heading to Mexico City at the end of the month. Nearly 100 U.S. and Mexican business and community leaders will be in the delegation. -
As soon as Friday, a father of seven from the Democratic Republic of Congo may be returned to a country where he fears he’ll be killed. -
The prototypes for President Trump’s border wall were being demolished in Otay Mesa on Wednesday. -
U.S. House majority leader Steny Hoyer toured the San Ysidro Port Of Entry Friday to evaluate a recent pilot program to return some asylum seekers to Mexico. -
A federal judge in San Diego plans to rule within the next few days on whether to expand a family separation case at the U.S.-Mexico border to include potentially thousands more migrant children. -
KPBS Midday EditionAs the Trump administration continues to push for funding for a border wall to address an ‘invasion’ of people, asylum-seeking families continue to trickle through legally.
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