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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About 2,400 migrants are staying at an abandoned concert hall run by the Mexican federal government as they await their turn to ask for asylum in the U.S. -
Dozens of people from the Central American migrant exodus are heading back home, fueled in part by misinformation. -
As Tijuana struggles to cope with thousands of Central American arrivals, mothers in the exodus fear some unruly men in their midst could ruin their opportunities to enter the U.S. -
The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening a lawsuit if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the private prison company Corecivic don't revoke a new requirement that prohibits church volunteers from speaking to the press. -
President Trump is urging a “migrant caravan” to apply for asylum in Mexico rather than in the U.S., as homicides there reach an all-time high. KPBS looks at the asylum-seekers already stuck in Tijuana, waiting for their turn to enter the San Ysidro Port of Entry. -
Tijuana-based activist Irineo Mujica remains in jail after he was arrested in southern Mexico while marching in solidarity with a Honduran caravan that President Trump is condemning.
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