Adrian Florido
Adrian Florido is a national correspondent for NPR covering race and identity in America.
He was previously a reporter for NPR's Code Switch team.
His beat takes him around the country to report on major flashpoints over race and racism, but also on the quieter nuances and complexities of how race is lived and experienced in the United States.
In 2018 he was based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria while on a yearlong special assignment for NPR's National Desk.
Before joining NPR in 2015, he was a reporter at NPR member station KPCC in Los Angeles, covering public health. Before that, he was the U.S.-Mexico border reporter at KPBS in San Diego. He began his career as a staff writer at the Voice of San Diego.
Adrian is a Southern California native. He was news editor of the Chicago Maroon, the student paper at the University of Chicago, where he studied history. He's also an organizer of the Fandango Fronterizo, an annual event during which musicians gather on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and play together through the fence that separates the two countries.
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The government sent Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana, where his case could've been harder to fight. His lawyer's fast work may have kept it out of the most conservative federal circuit in the country.
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The State Department says it has revoked more than 300 visas, as the Trump administration continues to detain and deport pro-Palestinian student activists at universities across the country.
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ICE agents arrested a high-profile immigrant rights activist in Denver. Jeanette Vizguerra became a symbol during the first Trump administration when she moved into a church to avoid deportation.
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Columbia University students are upset that the school has not taken a more strident stance to protect its students as the Trump administration has used immigration enforcement against protestors.
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The Trump administration has deported more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador who it accuses of being gang members with a rarely used law to quickly expel them without due process.
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The Trump administration has accused Khalil of engaging in anti-Semitic activity and support of Hamas. The administration wants Khalil deported. But he's a legal permanent resident, and his attorneys deny any involvement with the terrorist group. -
The move is an escalation in President Trump's effort to increase deportations from the U.S. and strip protections from those who violate the new administration's priorities. -
ICE arrested a former Columbia University graduate student involved in campus protests over the war in Gaza. Mahmoud Khalil is a U.S. permanent resident. The government says he faces deportation.
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NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Dr. Ron Cook of Lubbock, Texas, about the measles outbreak in his state – and what the Lubbock Health Department is doing to try to control it.
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What role are migrants' tattoos playing in the Trump administration's efforts to identify, arrest and put on display criminal immigrants?
