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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In March, around 100 immigrants who formerly had been living in the U.S. illegally walked up to the Otay Mesa Port of Entry and asked for political asylum or humanitarian parole. Twenty-four have been deported. -
California health care activists are on a road trip to raise awareness about the lack of health coverage among undocumented immigrants, and to garner support for a bill intended to bridge the coverage gap. -
On a visit to the San Diego-Tijuana border region, the new commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gil Kerlikowske, said his agency would provide officers for the new cross-border air terminal under construction in Otay Mesa. -
KPBS Midday EditionA University of San Diego report on drug violence in Mexico finds that homicides are down overall in the country, but the number of killings in Tijuana is up from 2012. -
David Maung's photography exhibit, Luz Tenue, is an intimate portrait of the life of homeless deportees in Tijuana and Mexicali. -
San Diegans who pounded the pavement in hopes of bringing the city’s first Latino mayor into office gathered over the weekend to discuss why San Diego City Councilman David Alvarez lost the mayoral election last February.
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