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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Bulldozers took to the building six weeks after Walmart announced it would convert it into one of its stores. -
Agents spotted the boat two miles off the coast of Ocean Beach and swarmed it when made landfall.
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A proposal to line Broadway with palm trees would come at the expense of more than 100 shade trees.
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Latinos are nearly half of the city's population, but there is only one Latino on the city council. -
The ACLU says it is more concerned than ever that Escondido has been illegally profiting from the controversial checkpoints.
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A 32-year-old Iraqi immigrant died three days after she was discovered brutally beaten at her Southern California home. Indications of a possible hate crime have shaken thousands of Iraqi refugees who live in the surrounding community.
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