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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Polls show an overwhelming majority of Latino voters believe politics should be more about economic issues, like jobs, than moral ones, like gay marriage or abortion. -
The ACLU is calling for an investigation into alleged abuse by Customs and Border Protection agents along the U.S.-Mexico border. -
Activists launched a national campaign asking the Justice Department to investigate the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas. -
The power outage left millions across the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico without electricity for numerous hours. -
Undocumented immigrants arrested for minor traffic violations will no longer be subject to deportation unless they're convicted. -
A Pew Hispanic Center Study found that during a five-year period, just as many Mexican immigrants returned to Mexico as arrived in the U.S.
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