Pulitzer Prize Winner/Journalist Jose Vargas Says He's An Illegal Alien, Will Fight For Dream Act...He first came to the U.S. from the Philippines in 1993 when he was 12...He learned when he was 16 that his family had used fake documentation to get him to the U.S....Vargas was able to obtain a license from Oregon using the address of the father of a friend, and that license didn't expire until earlier this year. In the meantime he launched a career in journalism, working at the Washington Post, the Huffington Post and profiling Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg for the New Yorker.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110622/bs_atlantic/journalistjoseantoniovargascomesoutillegalimmigrant39120
I was duped by Jose Vargas, illegal Alien
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The Filipino mother of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who came out as an illegal alien in the U.S. told The Associated Press that she tried to persuade him to keep quiet.
ReplyDeleteJose Antonio Vargas' mother, Emelie Salinas, sent him from the Philippines to live with his grandparents in California when he was 12 and has NOT seen him in person since.
She said in a telephone interview from her residence near Manila on Thursday evening that she worried about the consequences of his revelations to the U.S. media and tried to stop him, thinking all of his hard work and achievements might be wasted.
"We could not understand ... he was already there, he already achieved his dream, what else did he want?" she said.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-as-philippines-us-journalist,0,4763868.story