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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KPBS Midday EditionAs Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen toured the San Ysidro Port of Entry, a Honduran asylum-seeker was returned to Mexico to await his U.S. asylum proceedings. -
KPBS Midday EditionAs President Donald Trump continues his fight for a border wall, Americans are flocking to the Central American migrant caravan in Tijuana from across the U.S., for a very different reason — including left-wing activists who are encouraging migrants to jump the fence en masse. -
Mexican officials plan to close the main Tijuana shelter for the Central American migrant caravan in the coming weeks, saying it was never meant to be permanent. -
President Trump says 150 migrants "charged" the border, and the Department of Homeland Security calls them a "violent mob." Witnesses say the migrants were peaceful until the tear gas was launched. -
Maria Meza and her five children were released on parole Friday evening by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. -
Tijuana residents remain divided about the migrant caravan, hundreds of whom must now stay in Mexico while their asylum proceedings unfold in the U.S.
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