Pulitzer-Winning Reporter: I Am An Undocumented Immigrant

[Valin]

NPR:

Mark Memmott

Watch in coming days to see how this story plays out in the always hot immigration debate:

Jose Antonio Vargas, a reporter who shared a Pulitzer Prize when he was with The Washington Post, reveals today that he is an "undocumented immigrant" and that he has over the years obtained (with help) a series of false documents to conceal that fact from employers.

Vargas tells his story in The New York Times Magazine and at a new website — DefineAmerican.org — where he hopes to host "a real conversation about immigration in our country."

And on a piece that will air during Thursday's World News with Diane Sawyer on ABC, the 30-year-old Vargas says he's revealing all this because he wants others to know that "in my heart I'm an American ... [and that] I am one of many, many people and we are not who you think we are. ... We don't just mow your lawns and babysit your kids and serve you tacos."

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CGP: Pulitzer-Winning Reporter: I Am An Undocumented Immigrant

[Saltbag]

We don't just mow your lawns and babysit your kids and serve you tacos.

 

We can't ignore all the other contributions!

 

And so an illegal with ambition, which gets a Pulitzer from a not only sympathetic, but supportive media, is supposed to represent our future global utopia.

 

Really hard not to be sarcastic...