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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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... -
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 the past 18 days, a group of more than a dozen protesters have demonstrated outside a big white tent on the banks of the Rio Grande in Brownsville. -
Ray Rodriguez is reading a book in Spanish to dozens of children who are gathered around him listening intently. The kids are sitting on the floor and... -
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... -
Hundreds of red, blue and orange tents are scattered around the Gateway International Bridge that connects Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico,... -
The Trump administration has lifted a ban on public and press access to immigration hearings in tented courts in Brownsville and Laredo. -
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... -
The last Democratic presidential candidate from Texas — and the only Latino — has stepped off the political field, nearly one year since the former...
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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... -
The Mexican government is attempting to clear out one of the tent encampments in Matamoros where more than 1,500 asylum seekers have been living for... -
The Brownsville City Commission approved the creation of a task force on Tuesday night that will give the LGBTQ community a voice in addressing...
