Reynaldo Leaños Jr.
Reynaldo Leanos Jr. covers immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border for Texas Public Radio.
Prior to joining Texas Public Radio, Reynaldo was a freelance journalist in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas and in New York City. His work has appeared in Public Radio International’s The World and Global Nation, NBC News, NPR’s Latino USA, KUT’s Texas Standard and KUT.
He has an undergraduate degree from Texas State University, where he studied journalism and international studies. Leanos also has a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he specialized in international reporting.
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Latinos comprise about 40% of the population in Texas, and their votes could be critical to races up and down the ballot. Campaigns are rediscovering the fact that there is no solid “Latino” bloc. Public Radio reporters across Texas are listening to these voters discuss the issues they care about and give their thoughts on where the nation should be heading. This is the first in a series of five stories about Latino voters in the 2020 Election. -
Ahead of the November election, President Trump’s administration said it is racing to build 10 miles of border wall a week . Many of those projects... -
Read this story in English here. La administración Trump anunció esta semana que no expulsará a niños inmigrantes y padres que se encuentran retenidos... -
The Trump administration announced this week that it will not expel migrant children and parents who were being held at the Hampton Inn Hotel and Suites... -
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped some people, including those seeking asylum, from crossing into the U.S. at its southern border. -
Click here to read this story in English. Esta noticia fue actualizada el 1 de mayo con las declaraciones de la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección... -
Thomas Cartwright ran along a chain link fence outside the runway at the Brownsville South Padre International Airport . He was trying to catch a... -
For months, asylum seekers have waited at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump Administration’s Remain In Mexico policy — and they’ll still be there... -
Officials in Matamoros, Mexico, are threatening to separate asylum seekers from their children if they don't leave a tent encampent of more than 1500... -
Thousands of asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, don’t have access to clean water. They have to use the Rio...
