Posted on 06/22/2011 9:02:51 PM PDT by freespirited
Rarely does a story hit with the impact of former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas’s revelation in the New York Times magazine Wednesday that he is an undocumented immigrant.
Within minutes of it appearing on the Times’ website, it burned across Twitter like wildfire, pushed along each time with passionate endorsements from influential journalists. Meanwhile, ABC News blasted excerpts from its exclusive interview with Vargas, which will air on “World News” and “Nightline” tomorrow and “Good Morning America” on Friday....
The Post, the paper that hired Vargas as an intern, put him on a team that won a Pulitzer and was the intended home for Vargas’s revelation, could have been at the center of all the buzz. But last week, for reasons that no one at the paper is owning up to, it got cold feet...
The article could be problematic for the Post, because it not only reveals that the paper broke the law by employing an illegal immigrant, but that Vargas told a mentor, Post assistant managing editor Peter Perl, about his immigration status. It is not clear whether Perl told anyone else at the paper.
“We’re reviewing our internal processes and believe that was an isolated incident,” Coratti said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Knowingly employing illegals should be a criminal offense of a high felonious order.
Pulitzers are like the Nobel Peace prize to me. They don’t mean jack****. IMHO
The problem? The Obama Administration views "the law" as a political tool, nothing more. Thus, no one will be prosecuted.
Zero is an illegal alien IMHO.
Wasn’t Vargas a biology teacher at Ridgemont High?
Didn’t look hispanic.
Actually, it is a criminal offense ...
From the Immigration Reform Control Act of 1986:
"UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT OF ALIENS
"SEC. 274A. (a) "8 USC 1324a" MAKING EMPLOYMENT OF UNAUTHORIZED ALIENS UNLAWFUL. --
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- It is unlawful for a person or other entity to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States --
"(A) an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (h)(3)) with respect to such employment, or
"(B) an individual without complying with the requirements of subsection (b).
"(2) CONTINUING EMPLOYMENT. -- It is unlawful for a person or other entity, after hiring an alien for employment in accordance with paragraph (1), to continue to employ the alien in the United States knowing the alien is (or has become) an unauthorized alien with respect to such employment.
Further on:
"(4) USE OF LABOR THROUGH CONTRACT. -- For purposes of this section, a person or other entity who uses a contract, subcontract, or exchange, entered into, renegotiated, or extended after the date of the enactment of this section, to obtain the labor of an alien in the United States knowing that the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (h)(3)) with respect to performing such labor, shall be considered to have hired the alien for employment in the United States in violation of paragraph (1)(A).
HOWEVER, the penalties are quite minor ...
I thought about the name for quite a while and finally remembered, he was the artist that made paintings of the Playboy centerfolds back when I was a teenager loitering in the drugstore magazine sections.
“undocumented immigrant”
The dishonesty in that euphemism makes me want to puke all over a libtard.
He’s an illegal alien, a border crasher, an invader, who has been stealing things that should have gone to actual Americans.
Flog him, brand him, walk him to the border, and fling him across with a catapult.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.