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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There’s 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. -
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. -
Jessica and her five children haven’t seen Hilder Lainez-Alvarez — their husband and father — in several months. He’s being detained at the Port Isabel... -
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... -
This post has been updated. It was originally published on Sunday, July 5, at 2:55 p.m. A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that Immigration and... -
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... -
Dr. Dairon Elisondo Rojas is walking around a new 20-bed tented hospital at the south end of a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico. -
The Trump administration has accelerated some efforts to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the president is using the pandemic to justify his push for it. -
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,...
