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Title: Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Comes Out as an Illegal Immigrant
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20 ... scomesoutillegalimmigrant39120
Published: Jun 22, 2011
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2011-06-22 20:39:40 by Horse
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Views: 114
Comments: 5
The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jose Antonio Vargas came out as an undocumented immigrant in a New York Times Magazine article today. The lengthy piece details his secret life, which he lived while excelling as a journalist and, outwardly, a U.S. citizen. He learned when he was 16 that his family had used fake documentation to get him to the U.S., and over the years, he kept up the illusion. But he says it was four students' pilgrimage from Miami to Washington, D.C., to lobby for the Dream Act that inspired him to go public with his own immigration status. There are believed to be 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. We’re not always who you think we are. Some pick your strawberries or care for your children. Some are in high school or college. And some, it turns out, write news articles you might read. I grew up here. This is my home. Yet even though I think of myself as an American and consider America my country, my country doesn’t think of me as one of its own. Vargas, who won a breaking news Pulitzer in 2007 for his coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, has had a big year for opening up. In September, he wrote that he was gay in his New Yorker profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. A similar candidness pervades his Times Magazine piece today, when he talks about his internal strife during the immigration debates of the 1990s. "They’re not talking about me, I would tell myself. I have something to contribute." the whole article is worth a read when you have time, but for a quick glimpse of some of the emotions running through it, check out the ABC interview with Vargas on his revelation:
Poster Comment: So when will Obama deport him?
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Jose was heard to say that he's glad it's finally out and that he feels like a huge weight has been lifted from his shoulders. His good friend and longtime companion .17mm rifle is reported to have been gobsmacked over the revelation.
Why is this number smaller every time it is reported? It's over 20 million....
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
I've seen several stories lately about illegals who are "great citizens" all designed to make us think ALL illegals are like this. The truth is not so pretty.
"So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." -Padme, Star Wars III, Sith
It seems (y)our leadership is incapable of devising and implementing a reasonable system for migrant workers and immigrants. It looks to me that the asshats have to make a big fuss over the extremities of every issue. Anyone that continues to support these self-centered, double dealing, trouble making, murderers, has no guts, nor self esteem.
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat
Buy the rumor, sell the news.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#2. To: Horse (#0)
There are believed to be 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
#3. To: Horse (#0)
#4. To: Horse (#0)
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#5. To: abraxas (#2)
Why is this number smaller every time it is reported?
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