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Adrian Florido

Border Reporter

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Adrian 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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Drug Violence In Mexico Dropped In 2012

Adrian Florido

The number of homicides dropped to between 20,000 and 25,000 last year, and between 45 to 60 percent of those were organized-crime-style murders.
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ICE Fines San Diego, Imperial County Businesses More Than $173,800

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Adrian Florido

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fined 10 businesses in San Diego and Imperial counties more than $173,800 for hiring “unlawful” employees.
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A Quarter-Century Later, 1986 Amnesty Still Informs the Immigration Debate

Adrian Florido

In the 1980s, immigration reform was described as a three-legged stool: amnesty for undocumented immigrants, and border and workplace enforcement to prevent future ones.
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Farmers And Advocates Want Guest Worker Reform

Adrian Florido

As talk of immigration reform heats up, farmers want to streamline the guest worker program, while advocates generally oppose it.
Border & Immigration

Border Apprehensions Reach Record Lows In San Diego

Adrian Florido

Tougher border security in San Diego has driven would-be border crossing migrants east, to the deserts of Arizona and Texas.
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Tijuana Opens City's First Composting Center

Adrian Florido

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.