Posted on 07/15/2014 11:13:44 AM PDT by mandaladon
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a Philippines-born immigration activist who has lived in the U.S. since childhood without legal documentation, was detained Tuesday by Border Patrol agents at a Texas airport Vargas had been visiting the border city for several days as part of a vigil to highlight the plight of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children coming into the U.S. illegally who in recent months have overwhelmed Border Patrol facilities.
Vargas went public about his own immigration status in a 2011 piece for the New York Times Magazine, revealing that he had been living in the U.S. illegally since he was brought from the Philippines as a child to live with his grandparents. He was part of a team of reporters at The Washington Post that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
Vargas went public about his own immigration status in a 2011 piece for the New York Times Magazine, revealing that he had been living in the U.S. illegally since he was brought from the Philippines as a child to live with his grandparents. He was part of a team of reporters at The Washington Post that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
Border Patrol spokesman Omar Zamora said Vargas was in custody after being stopped going through security at the airport in McAllen, a city just across the border from Mexico. Zamora said he had no other details about the case.
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hehehe...
If he is in the country illegally, I don’t know what else they can do with him other than send him back home.
Schadenfreude Bump!
How old is this guy?
How did he get a driving license without showing a valid birth cert?
Driver license 250.00 on the street!
Illegal aliens do not need drivers licenses in California. If they get pulled over by the cops the cops let them go without issuing a citation. In California that is called the four no’s.
No drivers license
No registration
No insurance
No hay problema, adios amigo.
These rules apply only to illegal aliens, not to you and me.
He used a forged SSN card
Employed by the Washington post with no valid SS#. Send him to jail for fraud and big fine for his employer!
Isn’t this the prick McCain hired on as a consultant?
In answer to my own question, the individual McCain hired was Juan Hernandez. He’s another jackass that is super anti-american and pro invasion of the U.S.
And I suppose the “guy down the street” has the technology for encoding the magnetic stripe with information?
This guy won a Pulitzer while working for NYT? Why isn’t NYT facing legal action?
OK, send him back; fake docs is fake docs (ss card, drivers license, etc)
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