Jun 24, 2011
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In this week's New York Times Magazine, Jose Antonio Vargas -- a 2000 graduate of Mountain View High School and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist -- describes his life growing up as an undocumented immigrant. He tells of his journey to this country from the Philippines at age 12 to...
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The biggest story now in blogs and social media — even bigger than President Barack Obama's Afghanistan speech — centers on journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and his New York Times magazine essay in which he reveals he's an illegal immigrant.
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Eighteen-year-old Dulce Guerrero kept quiet about being an illegal immigrant until earlier this year, when she became upset after a traffic stop that landed her mother in jail for two nights. The arrest came as Georgia lawmakers were crafting what would become one of the nation's toughest immigration crackdowns,...
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Almost ten years after the DREAM Act was introduced for the first time in 2001, the bill will now receive its first ever senate hearing next Tuesday -- and we have Senator Durbin to thank for it.
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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."
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If there was ever a story to read, this is it. Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize Winning journalist. He's also an undocumented immigrant. I cannot do this story justice, so here's an excerpt from the New York Times -- but read it in full.
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One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. "Baka malamig doon" were among the few words she said. ("It might be cold there.") When I arrived at the Philippines' Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her,...
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A UC Davis honors student who had launched a national Facebook campaign to avoid deportation to India with her mother won an 11th-hour stay Tuesday after immigration officials last week issued a memo allowing for greater discretion in Dream Act cases.
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