Reynaldo Lea帽os 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鈥檚 The World and Global Nation, NBC News, NPR鈥檚 Latino USA, KUT鈥檚 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鈥檚 degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he specialized in international reporting.
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There鈥檚 been a record turnout of voters in Texas. This high turnout has Democrats hopeful that this could be the year Texas turns blue, and the Joe Biden campaign spent the weekend trying to further mobilize the Texas electorate to come out and vote. -
Paola Ramos is the author of a new book named " Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity." -
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 鈥淟atino鈥� 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. -
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鈥檛 stopped some people, including those seeking asylum, from crossing into the U.S. at its southern border. -
A public health order issued in late-March by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention barred unauthorized migrants from entering the U.S. The...
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This post has been updated to reflect a statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Trump Administration has been detaining migrant children... -
The first confirmed case of COVID-19 has been reported at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico. More than 2,000 men, women and children have been living...
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For weeks, Emma Chalott Barron had been riddled with anxiety, wondering how the U.S. Supreme Court would rule on the program known as Deferred Action for鈥� -
Detainees at the Port Isabel Detention Center in the Rio Grande Valley have been concerned about a potential COVID-19 outbreak at the facility for... -
This story was updated on May 1 with statements from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. While much of the country has been on lockdown because of the... -
As the U.S. continues to deal with COVID-19 , a migrant camp along the southern border in Matamoros, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville,...
