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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KPBS Midday EditionTwo alleged leaders of a San Diego drug gang with roots to the Arellano-Felix drug cartel in Tijuana are on trial in San Diego for multiple murders. The trial could take a year, at a time when the county court system is dealing with massive budget cuts. -
The defendants are alleged members of a splinter group of Tijuana's Arellano-Felix cartel.
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Since the start of the Iraq War, more than 11,000 Iraqis have arrived in the city of El Cajon, east of San Diego. -
KPBS Midday EditionUniversity of San Diego researchers say the problem of cross-border arms trafficking is worse than previously thought, but their findings come with caveats. -
As Congress and the White House continue to work on a comprehensive immigration-reform package, a coalition of San Diego leaders today are launching a joint local campaign. -
A federal court has ruled that border agents can only go so far when it comes to searching border crossers' digital devices without reasonable suspicion of a crime.
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