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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Binational LGBT spouses had hoped to gain immigration rights, but senators excluded them from their bill.
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Immigrant rights activists and business groups say the bill is a good first step, but they'll still lobby for changes.
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Nearly $300 million of the federal budget would go to expand border crossings in San Diego and Laredo, Texas. -
Unions hope legalization for 11 million immigrants without authorization will make organizing those immigrants easier. -
The agency had warned of long border waits and fewer agents on the ground, but those haven't come to pass. -
Civic groups are voicing concern about the Mexican president's plan to create a new paramilitary force to combat violence.
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