Gustavo Solis

Narcan is available at the Live and Let Live Alano Club in Hillcrest. It is free to anyone who wants it with no questions asked. LLLAC is a Live Well partner with the San Diego County Department of Health, San Diego, CA, July 1, 2022.

A table with Narcan Nasal spray is organized at a press conference, Jan. 23, 2023.

People look through the border fence just west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. May 10, 2023.

As more unaccompanied children seek asylum in the U.S., the federal government is struggling to find appropriate housing for them. According to internal data from the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, children from Africa and the Middle East stay in federal custody longer than children from Spanish-speaking countries

By Gustavo Solis / Investigative Border Reporter Contributors: Carlos Castillo / Video Journalist

In San Diego, as in many parts of the US, lifesaving medicines like naloxone have helped reduce the number of fentanyl overdoses. But in Mexico, the country's restrictive drug policies make naloxone almost impossible to get. From KPBS, Gustavo Solis reports that good Samaritans are essentially smuggling the medicine into Mexican border towns like Tijuana.

The ofrenda for migrants who died crossing the border features a large Catholic rosary, which are traditionally decorated with prayer beads. This version is is decorated with stylized depictions of human skulls known as calaveras.

Migrant children who enter the US illegally are placed in facilities overseen by the US Office of Refugee Resettlement. These are meant to be temporary stays — just long enough for the federal government to connect each child with a relative, sponsor, or foster home. But as Gustavo Solis reports from KPBS in San Diego, children from African and Middle Eastern countries are staying much longer than expected — and longer than kids from everywhere else.

As more unaccompanied children seek asylum in the U.S., the federal government is struggling to find appropriate housing for them. And for children from Africa and the Middle East, the waits can be much longer.

Traffic at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing at San Ysidro, Dec. 19, 2016.