Adrian Florido
Border ReporterAdrian Florido is a reporter for the Fronteras Desk where he covers the U.S.-Mexico border, immigrant and tribal communities, demographics, and culture. Before joining KPBS, he was a staff writer at Voice of San Diego. There he reported on San Diego neighborhoods, focusing on immigrant and under-served communities as well as development, planning, land use, and transportation. For a year, he delivered a weekly television segment on NBC San Diego. He's a Southern California native who moved to San Diego in 2009 after earning an undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago. He majored in history with an emphasis on the US and Latin America. In college he was news editor of the student paper, the Chicago Maroon, and also spent time reporting from Capitol Hill and working with the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. He also likes to eat. A lot. And he likes to run to keep up his appetite. And he likes good music.
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A Tijuana nonprofit is opening the city’s first composting center with U.S. funding as part of an effort to reduce waste that affects both sides of the border. -
The mayor's staff in Tijuana will focus on encouraging binational economic development. -
In San Diego County, agriculture is a nearly $2 billion business, and in recent years farmers say they have struggled to find workers. But you'd be hard-pressed to find a farmer who contracts temporary workers through the government's H-2A visa program. They say the legal temporary worker process is bound up in red tape. To be published Jan. 28, 2013 -
Tom Fremantle and his adopted street dog Pancho walked 1,000 miles, crisscrossing the border between CIudad Juarez and Tijuana. -
The wait to cross into San Diego from Tijuana can top three hours on weekdays and five on weekends, straining crossers' sanity, bladders and the regional economy. -
KPBS Midday EditionKPBS takes a look at the news made at the U.S.-Mexico border this year with our Fronteras Desk reporters Adrian Florido and Jill Replogle.
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