Posted on 07/13/2014 1:20:10 PM PDT by kristinn
Jose Antonio Vargas was once well-known for being a star up-and-coming journalist at The Washington Post, a Pulitzer Prize winner before he hit the age of 30.
Today, he’s best known for being America’s most prominent undocumented immigrant, after he wrote a “coming out” piece for The New York Times Magazine in 2011. Despite his high profile — or, more likely, because of it — he has avoided detention or deportation. He lives in the United States, runs a nonprofit that employs a dozen Americans and travels extensively using his valid Philippine passport. SNIP
Two weeks ago, he was in the news when his documentary “Documented” aired on CNN. This week, he’s in the news because, after traveling to McAllen to document the experience of young migrants living in shelters there, he’s realized that the more stringent ID checks at the Texas border may have him stuck there.
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Since outing myself three years ago, I’ve been traveling around the country for Define American and visiting 43 states. And I’ve been flying by using my Philippine passport — no visa in the passport, just for ID purposes. And it’s been fine. TSA accepts it.
But though I’ve spent time in the California border, and I’ve flown out of the San Diego airport many times, I’ve been never to the Texas border. I’d heard about checkpoints and border patrol agents, but I didn’t realize just how much a militarized zone the Texas border is. I didn’t know that border patrol agents check IDs with airport security agents. I’ve spoken with a few undocumented people who live in the McAllen area, and they feel trapped. I don’t think the American public at large understands that reality for undocumented people in the border.
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Once again, the # 11,000,000 was being used in the 90’s as the # of illegals in the US. The actual number today has to be at least 30 - 40 million.
Amnesty at this time might make this country flip over...
And the only way to fix it is to make them US Citizens. Just ask Rubio.
Ed
He will go to Mexico City, fly to Manilla and then fly to LAX and enter the US.
You thumb your nose at the law repeatedly and sooner or later it will bite you. Gordon Kahl found that out in 1983. Anybody remember him?
Our Most Famous Undocumented Illegal Alien is living in our White House. I defy anyone to show me proof that he is an American.
I am hoping for baby pictures of malia and sasha. Happy mother and father.
NO? You mean Michelle is really Mikael?
bump
“America’s most prominent undocumented immigrant” ???
Really?
How did he get jumped ahead of Barack Obama?
Not to pick nits, but the fact that his mother is a US Citizen pretty much closes the case on being a citizen. Being qualified for the Presidency, is altogether something else.
But, I do not want to start a battle.
And I, as a representative of the American public at large, do not give a rat's ass.
They are not undocumented...they are ILLEGAL, dumbass!
And that....is why we get called names.
“And that....is why we get called names.”
What’s this “we” thing? You got a mouse in your pocket? I don’t recall being called names...
Send him backto Manila. My relatives had to study and work hard for their green cards
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