• Office Sought: Representative, Texas (16)
• Birth Date: Nov. 10, 1944
• Occupation: Former Border Patrol Sector Chief
• Religion: Catholic
• Web site: http://wwwc.house.gov/reyes/

Education

• El Paso Community College, AA
• University of Texas, Attended

Silvestre Reyes was born in Canutillo, Texas, and lives in El Paso. He received an associate's degree from El Paso Community College and studied criminal justice and police administration at the University of Texas at Austin.

He served in the U.S. Army as a helicopter crew chief, 1966-68. He entered the Border Patrol in 1969 as an inspector in Del Rio, Texas. He transferred to El Paso in 1974 as an immigration inspector.

From 1978 to 1979, Reyes served as a training supervisor at the immigration service training academy in Glynco, Ga. He then moved to Dallas as deputy regional chief for the Border Patrol. He was promoted to assistant regional commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Dallas.

Reyes was appointed chief patrol agent in the McAllen (Texas) Border Patrol Sector in 1984. He was appointed chief agent of the El Paso Sector in 1993 and retired in November 1995.

He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1996.

Reyes and his wife, Carolina, have three children.