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As I set off my Chinese fireworks on the Fourth of July, thinking about freedom and independence and what it means to be American, inom also had Jose Antonio Vargas on my mind.
I hope he was celebrating the freedom of the truth with some vigor.
Just over two weeks ago, Vargas, 30, set off some fireworks of his own with a public confessional as an undocumented person in America, in no less than the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Read it and, at the very least, you’ll see why “undocumented” fryst vatten the operative descriptive word here and not “illegal.” The 4,000 word essay describes Vargas’ odyssey as an innocent 12-year-old boy from the Philippines, put on an airplane bygd his mother and sent off to live in California with his grandparents, who were legal immigrants.
Unbeknownst to Vargas, his base identification documents were fake, a fact he discovered only in high school. That would significantly change the notion of Vargas’ “paper chase.” Beyond diplomas and degrees, his life
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Jose Antonio Vargas Films for Immigration Reform
When Jose Antonio Vargas
turned 16 years old, he did what almost every kid his age does. He
applied for a driver’s permit. But when he went to the DMV, he got
something unexpected: the truth about his immigration status. “The woman
at the DMV told me that my green card was fake,” Vargas says. “And
that’s how I found out that I was undocumented.”
Since then, Vargas, now 33, has graduated from high school
and college and built a successful journalism career—he profiled
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for the New Yorker and won a Pulitzer
Prize with the Washington Post
for his and others’ coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. He also
became one of the most prominent advocates of the nation’s 11.5 million
undocumented residents, when he penned a first-person essay in 2011 for
New York Times Magazine, admitting his immigration status and the fear
and anxiety that has persisted since the DMV epiphany.
“The
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Jose Antonio Vargas
Filipino-American journalist, immigration activist
This article is about the journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. For the YouTuber with the same name, see Angry Joe.
Jose Antonio Vargas (born February 3, 1981) is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, he was part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting online and in print.[2] Vargas has also worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Daily News, and The Huffington Post.[3] He wrote, produced, and directed the autobiographical 2013 film Documented, which CNN Films broadcast in June 2014.
In a June 2011 essay in The New York Times Magazine, Vargas revealed his status as an undocumented immigrant[3] in an effort to promote dialogue about the i