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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Undocumented immigrants are warned to avoid unlicensed consultants who promise immediate help. -
Policy change will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation -
Facing a voting-rights lawsuit, the Escondido City Council will ask voters decide whether to implement district elections, which could help more Latinos get elected.
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Graffiti on a long-respected Sherman Heights mural suggests a neighborhood rivalry, and an activist says it's a wake-up call. -
At the forum organized by the La Raza Lawyers Association, candidates discussed the education gap, minority businesses, immigration and the border. -
Son Jarocho is a musical style with roots in rural southern Mexico, but in recent years its popularity has surged in Mexican cities and in the U.S.
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