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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Social visitation is suspended in all U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities according to a statement from officials. The agency...
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Christina Brown is an immigration attorney in Denver, but also represents people on the southern border who are in the Trump administration’s Remain in...
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Hundreds of asylum-seekers are not getting a chance to make their case in U.S. immigration court. Instead, the migrants are put on planes to Guatemala and told to ask for asylum there.
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Moderate and progressive candidates are mired in a nationwide struggle that may define the future of the Democratic Party.
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Charlene D’Cruz pulled 30 cents out of her pocket and asked her clients if they’ll need it to get across a turnstile at the Gateway International Bridge...
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Dozens of people gathered on Sunday in Matamoros, Mexico to protest the more than 2,500 asylum seekers living in their city in a tent encampment near...
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The Trump administration has lifted a ban on public and press access to immigration hearings in tented courts in Brownsville and Laredo.
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The Trump administration has expanded its new asylum claim review program to the Rio Grande Valley. The Prompt Asylum Claim Review program, or PACR, has...
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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...
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Health officials and aid workers from the U.S. and Mexico want to find out how many asylum seekers at the border are living with HIV.