Journalist
(Texas)
NPR correspondent based in Austin, Texas. Beat stretches across the U.S., and, sometimes, around the world. Currently, he is serving as Southwest Correspondent for the National Desk.
Tags: Hurricane Katrina
Links: @radiobigtex | Link to bio | (Current as of: July 20, 2015)
National Public Radio (NPR)
August 11, 2016
Still, working conditions have improved in the decades since the failed strike.
Audio , News Story
National Public Radio (NPR)
July 16, 2015
After facing a lot of criticism, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is changing the way it handles mothers and children who come to the U.S. illegally.
NPR correspondent based in Austin, Texas. Beat stretches across the U.S., and, sometimes, around the world. Currently, he is serving as Southwest Correspondent for the National Desk.
Tags: Hurricane Katrina
Links: @radiobigtex | Link to bio | (Current as of: July 20, 2015)
In December 2012, he returned from a five-month posting in Nairobi as the East Africa Correspondent. Normally, he focuses on the issues and people of the Southwest United States, providing investigative reports and traveling the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
His special reporting projects have included New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, and many reports on the Drug War in the Americas. His reports are heard regularly on NPR’s award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition.
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Audio , News StoryIn South Texas, Fair Wages Elude Farmworkers, 50 Years After Historic Strike
John BurnettNational Public Radio (NPR)
August 11, 2016
Still, working conditions have improved in the decades since the failed strike.
Audio , News Story
U.S. Immigration Agency Again Drops ‘Family Friendly’ Detention Centers
John BurnettNational Public Radio (NPR)
July 16, 2015
After facing a lot of criticism, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is changing the way it handles mothers and children who come to the U.S. illegally.
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