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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People in LA continue to protest ICE immigration raids. President Trump is now sending in 700 U.S. Marines and an additional 2,000 National Guard. State officials call it an unnecessary escalation.
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President Trump deployed California's National Guard against the wishes of Gov. Newsom following protests sparked by immigration raids in LA. Officials accuse Trump of purposefully provoking chaos.
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NPR spoke with two international students about their decision to continue speaking out despite the government's aggressive effort to deport pro-Palestinian activists. -
A federal judge has ruled that there is "probable cause" to find the Trump administration in contempt for violating his order last month to immediately pause deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
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Two deportation cases have called into question the Trump administration's aggressive efforts to expel immigrants. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to NPR's Adrian Florido, who attended one of the hearings.
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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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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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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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A recent White House order lays the foundations for the government to deport international students who've participated in protests against Israel. Critics call it censorship of protected speech.
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As authorities in Los Angeles launched searches for the dead, crews made some progress fighting the fires. But there are worries about the return of dangerously high winds this week.
