On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we invite Jean Guerrero, investigative reporter covering immigration for KPBS. Named one of “San Diego's best people” by the San Diego City Beat. Jean Guerrero is author of “Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.” Guerrero’s memoir is a spellbinding account of Mexican American heritage, a daughter's coming of age and to terms with her father's mental health, and the way forward on immigration, political reform and border security in America. Guerrero’s reporting was cited by a congressional inquiry about the Trump Administration's family separations policy, months before they captured the national attention. Prior to joining our ranks in public media, Guerrero was Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswire commodities correspondent in Mexico City.
Together, we discuss Guerrero’s childhood and her father’s experience with paranoid schizophrenia. Guerrero explains that this questioning of reality informed her path to investigative journalism and interest in Mexico and Central America. Guerrero describes her relationship to Mexico throughout her life, and how the long-term effects of the current border and family separation issues.
