Gustavo Solis
Investigative Border ReporterGustavo became the Investigative Border Reporter at KPBS in 2021. He was born in Mexico City, grew up in San Diego and has two passports to prove it. He graduated from Columbia University’s School of Journalism in 2013 and has worked in New York City, Miami, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and San Diego. In 2018 he was part of a team of reporters who shared a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. When he’s not working - and even sometimes when he should be - Gustavo is surfing on both sides of the border.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a business accused of knowingly hiring workers without legal status Thursday afternoon. Federal agents on the scene said they arrested fewer than 20 people. -
The Trump administration is lowering the threshold to report money transfers to foreign countries. The Treasury Department says the new rule is needed to combat money laundering from Mexican drug cartels. Critics say it violates privacy and civil liberties. -
An immigration expert analyzes the statistical impact of Trump's immigration policies, ICE funding increases and immigration data manipulation shaping public narratives. -
Nearly 50 immigration judges nationwide, including several in San Diego, left their jobs amid firings and resignations prompted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The result could be fewer deportations of dangerous criminals. -
ACLU lawyers and other advocates had raised questions about whether the transfer of a man with a 21-year-old assault conviction into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody violated the state’s sanctuary law. -
What’s happening with Trump's mass deportations? Expert breaks down stalled efforts and future plansResource limits are currently blocking mass deportation efforts, but here's how Republicans plan to overcome those obstacles.
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State Attorney General Rob Bonta met with immigrant rights groups and elected officials in San Diego to discuss his office's efforts to protect California's immigrant communities. -
During the Trump era, few issues have received more attention than migrant crime. But it's also been the subject of much misinformation. -
A judge has ruled that migrant children in makeshift camps along the border waiting to be processed by Border Patrol are in the agency’s custody.
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