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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The TRUST Act would have limited cooperation between local police and federal agents to deport undocumented immigrants. -
The Immigration Policy Center claims Border Patrol agents are helping translate for local police as a pretext for deporting people. -
A nonprofit's survey found that additional voting requirements in 23 states could conspire to keep Latinos and other minorities from the polls. -
The new system aims to reach out to California's six million eligible citizens who are not registered to vote. -
Once upon a time, if you were a Latino school kid known by your Latino name, you were lucky. -
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals faulted a local judge and U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy's office for keeping important testimony from a jury.
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