Jill Replogle
Fronteras ReporterJill Replogle is a Fronteras reporter in San Diego. She has been a journalist for more than 10 years, reporting from Central America, Mexico, and California. She has produced radio and video features for PRI's The World, KALW (San Francisco), Current TV, and the Video Journalism Movement. Her print stories have been published in The Miami Herald, Time.com, The Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as in Guatemalan newspapers SigloXXI, ElPeriodico and Inforpress Centroamericana. Jill has a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Colorado Boulder and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She's covered everything from local and international politics, to crime and drug violence, to environmental and public health issues. When she's not on the job, you might find her biking, scrambling up a rock somewhere, or otherwise exploring the outdoors.
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Baja California holds local and state elections Sunday. The governor's race is being closely watched, as the PAN risks losing its 24-year reign. -
Border agents in San Diego are seeing a huge rise in meth trafficked in from Mexico. San Diego is, by far, the primary entry point for Mexican meth. -
The Senate passed a bill that would overhaul the nation’s immigration system while dramatically boosting border security. In the border region, support for the bill was mixed. -
The Senate is expected to take a key vote on the immigration reform bill on Monday, with the hopes of passing it by the end of the week. Some border leaders are skeptical of the bill’s border security super-boost. -
A new border crossing planned for the San Diego-Tijuana area would charge a toll to keep border wait times down, pay for its own construction and, hopefully, operation. -
Tijuana newspapers have reported a recent spike in violent crime in the city. Street-level dealers are behind much of the violence, experts say.
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