“Jose Antonio Vargas of Define American, has been detained by Border Patrol in McAllen after attempting to board a plane to Los Angeles,” the immigrant youth-led organization United We Dream said in a statement on its website.
Is this a Zuckerburg funded site/movement?
Jose is undocumented. He joined UWD and MAC (Minority Affairs Council), a UWD affiliate, in McAllen, Texas this past weekend to stand in solidarity with unaccompanied children who cross the Texas border fleeing for their lives. As you may know, Jose doesn’t have legal status and he didn’t qualify under DACA because of the age cap. He came to McAllen to stand in solidarity with UWD and MAC so we could uplift the stories of refugees fleeing persecution in Central America. He didn’t know that Border Patrol checkpoints are all around this area and also at the airport, which means in order to leave, he must risk arrest and detention.
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