Posted on 06/22/2011 11:04:51 AM PDT by kristinn
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitizer prize winning reporter who has worked for the Washington Post and Huffington Post, has revealed that he is an illegal alien in a coordinated media push with the New York Times and ABC News seeking amnesty for illegal aliens like him.
Vargas also revealed that he breached White House security by using a fake ID, including when he covered a state dinner. And that a superior at the Washington Post knew and approved of his actions.
Vargas made the revelations in an article he authored published in the upcoming New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Vargas writes that at age 12 he was sent to America from the Philippines by his mother to live with his naturalized American citizen grandparents. His grandfather Lolo, repeatedly broke the law to get Vargas in the U.S. and to keep him here, Vargas writes
One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby D.M.V. office to get my driver’s permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. “This is fake,” she whispered. “Don’t come back here again.”
Confused and scared, I pedaled home and confronted Lolo. I remember him sitting in the garage, cutting coupons. I dropped my bike and ran over to him, showing him the green card. “Peke ba ito?” I asked in Tagalog. (“Is this fake?”) My grandparents were naturalized American citizens — he worked as a security guard, she as a food server — and they had begun supporting my mother and me financially when I was 3, after my father’s wandering eye and inability to properly provide for us led to my parents’ separation. Lolo was a proud man, and I saw the shame on his face as he told me he purchased the card, along with other fake documents, for me. “Don’t show it to other people,” he warned...
...The “uncle” who brought me here turned out to be a coyote, not a relative, my grandfather later explained. Lolo scraped together enough money — I eventually learned it was $4,500, a huge sum for him — to pay him to smuggle me here under a fake name and fake passport. (I never saw the passport again after the flight and have always assumed that the coyote kept it.) After I arrived in America, Lolo obtained a new fake Filipino passport, in my real name this time, adorned with a fake student visa, in addition to the fraudulent green card.
Using the fake passport, we went to the local Social Security Administration office and applied for a Social Security number and card. It was, I remember, a quick visit. When the card came in the mail, it had my full, real name, but it also clearly stated: “Valid for work only with I.N.S. authorization.”
When I began looking for work, a short time after the D.M.V. incident, my grandfather and I took the Social Security card to Kinko’s, where he covered the “I.N.S. authorization” text with a sliver of white tape. We then made photocopies of the card. At a glance, at least, the copies would look like copies of a regular, unrestricted Social Security card.
Later, with the help of sympathetic teachers, Vargas obtained a drivers license in Oregon using subterfuge and a fake Social Security card.
Vargas parlayed his illegally obtained identification documents into a job at the Washinton Post. He writes he confided in a superior, Peter Perl, who allowed him to continue working at the Post as an illegal alien in violation of the law.
About four months into my job as a reporter for The Post, I began feeling increasingly paranoid, as if I had “illegal immigrant” tattooed on my forehead — and in Washington, of all places, where the debates over immigration seemed never-ending. I was so eager to prove myself that I feared I was annoying some colleagues and editors — and worried that any one of these professional journalists could discover my secret. The anxiety was nearly paralyzing. I decided I had to tell one of the higher-ups about my situation. I turned to Peter.
By this time, Peter, who still works at The Post, had become part of management as the paper’s director of newsroom training and professional development. One afternoon in late October, we walked a couple of blocks to Lafayette Square, across from the White House. Over some 20 minutes, sitting on a bench, I told him everything: the Social Security card, the driver’s license, Pat and Rich, my family.
Peter was shocked. “I understand you 100 times better now,” he said. He told me that I had done the right thing by telling him, and that it was now our shared problem. He said he didn’t want to do anything about it just yet. I had just been hired, he said, and I needed to prove myself. “When you’ve done enough,” he said, “we’ll tell Don and Len together.” (Don Graham is the chairman of The Washington Post Company; Leonard Downie Jr. was then the paper’s executive editor.) A month later, I spent my first Thanksgiving in Washington with Peter and his family.
In the five years that followed, I did my best to “do enough.” I was promoted to staff writer, reported on video-game culture, wrote a series on Washington’s H.I.V./AIDS epidemic and covered the role of technology and social media in the 2008 presidential race. I visited the White House, where I interviewed senior aides and covered a state dinner — and gave the Secret Service the Social Security number I obtained with false documents.
Vargas writes that he explored his legal options when he was younger. When told he would have to leave the U.S. and be banned from returning for ten years, he opted to break the law. Now he is running a propaganda campaign for illegal aliens with help from his friends in the media.
A big concern though, is the security breach at the White House of someone using falsified documents to gain access to the president. Jeff Gannon was crucified by the liberals and the media for using a pseudonym, but not fake documents, when he was a White House reporter. There were calls for Congressional investigations into how Gannon gained access to the White House, even though Gannon used his given name, James Guckert, to obtain clearance to enter the White House.
Vargas' case, however, does cry out for investigations and prosecutions. Who else is in the media isusing fake identification documents to gain access to the White House and the president? Who else has the Washington Post helped to breach government security with fake credentials?
Vargas is rolling out a group called DefineAmerican with which he is campaigning for the DREAM act for illegal aliens. He also has a video clip on YouTube where he makes his case.
Always nice when a perp confesses. Arrest him and then deport him. They would do NO LESS in the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, China, or any other country sending their illegals here.
What’s weird about this guy is that in espionage, there are two types of spies, and one of them are called ‘illegals’. You get the in across the border using ‘legends’. A legend is basically a history of a person who either died young, or using some stolen and forged form of ID of a real person. In the 50s, a few Russian illegals came in through Canada.
This is one reason why immigration is such a serious issue.
This joker got INTO THE WHITEHOUSE on a fake ID, and the Post knew.
Arrest the man, and the guy at the Post, and let’s get this over with. Nation of laws? We’ll see.
I have great sympathy for Filipinos and those who come here legally.
Why does this guy think that his story merits a call to legalize folks like him? He is not a citizen, and is not here legally.
Reading his history, it’s an unending tale of lies, deception, forgeries, bribes, etc. This is the dishonesty and illegality “illegals” are bringing here. It’s just a bad thing for the country.
I think they could have found a citizen or legal immigrant to work for their newspaper.
Oh well that makes it okay then. :)
So if any other laws are broken, then I can break them too?
Your words, not mine.
“Arrest him and then deport him. They would do NO LESS in the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, China, or any other country sending their illegals here.”
Ha! Even a cultured European country like Germany would have his butt in a sling so fast his head would be spinning.
The problem in America isn’t the left and right or lib/con divide. It is the boundless greed of a commercial and banking sector that no longer owes its allegiance to the USA, but instead to international shareholders and CEO managers earning ever increasing many million dollar exorbitant bonuses while everyone else earns less.
These international elites play the left and right against each other (divide and conquer) for their own benefit. They have ALWAYS supported illegal immigration because they then profit at our expense. Thankfully not all conservatives have been hoodwinked into believing that they should support globalism and crony corporatism. Global corporatism has always been about removing national sovereignty, favoring open borders and no regulations, all to the international corporation’s benefit, but not necessarily ours.
Republicans are for immigration enforcement until they are against it. GW Bush was sidelined by 9-11 on his amnesty push from day one. We Americans sadly do not get any leadership that works in our USA first interest. We get leadership that is beholden to big NYC money, US Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street and other nations and it all comes out of our hide and at our expense and we smile while it happens.
I vote candidate not Party.
A big concern though, is the security breach at the White House of someone using falsified documents to gain access to the president.
There's a typo in that, here let me fix it:
Of no concern though, is the security breach at the White House of someone using falsified documents to gain access to the presidency.
AH—forgot to add. Where is the accountability? Why isn’t the reporter and WAPO management held criminally accountable for ID fraud. Accountability in the USA is something only the little guy faces? Everyone else gets a wink and nod and goes on with their business of screwing us.
The Washington Post scoffs at what is right. They break the law to prove it can be broken. The Post deserves the “Bad Citizen” award.
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitizer prize winning reporter who has worked for the Washington Post and Huffington Post, has revealed that he is an illegal alien in a coordinated media push with the New York Times and ABC News seeking amnesty for illegal aliens like him.
What about the American who was denied his job, probably because they were white? (Gay trumps Black, Black trumps Hispanic, everyone else trumps white males.)
I agree that is what should happen, but with this administration and the P.C. d*bags out there I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
Trick this man to come to Alabama or Texas or Arizona for something to report on.
Then arrest, under state law, and deport his ass.
Could be done under the umbrella that "his reporting is needed on the injustices suferred by the undocumented in Alabama under new law." If stupid enough, he will take the bait. I am sure a friendly sheriff and public prosecutor could be waiting by during the sting.
Ask Linda Tripp...
USA:
“This is fake,” she whispered. “Don’t come back here again."
JAPAN:
"これは偽造ですよ。此方の部屋へ早速来なさい。” ("This is fake! Accompany me to this room immediately.")
Within 36 hours, his papers to deport would be in order, he would be jailed at Konan or Narita if in Tokyo, (first given a 30 minute chance, supervised, to pack his goods as his residence under police watch), and make some goodbye calls to relatives or business associates to handle his things while gone and then unceremoniously handcuffed, taken to a holding area at aircraft/side, and put on a one way flight to Manila, stamped not to be able to enter Japan for at least ten years.
This is the treatment that Journalist should recieve. Very International Treatment (because this is done this way in the vast number of overseas countries. My how, "gllllloballllll" of them)....
don’t people like pelosi want to penalize (liquidate) any (evil, greedy) business that knowingly employs (takes advantage of) any illegal (unfortunate) immigrant?
sounds like the WaPo should have some packing to do.
Does this mean we don’t have to file IRS returns or pay taxes anymore? YIPPEE!!
Absolutely nothing of import will happen. No one will be arrested, prosecuted, or jailed. There will be a token fine paid, at the maximum.
How can I be expected to live in the same country with such scum? Traitorous, felonious, scum commie symp.
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