Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Reveals He's an Illegal Immigrant
Jose Antonio Vargas goes public with 'Times Magazine' article
Journalist and documentary filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas, who received the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 for The Washington Post, has revealed that he is an undocumented immigrant.
At the age of 12, Vargas was sent from his native Philippines to live with his grandparents in Mountain View, Calif. He says that he only discovered that he wasn’t an American citizen when he tried to apply for a driver’s permit four years later and was told that his green card was a fake.
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