The story of Jose Antonio Vargas is both amazing and depressing. Here's a guy who won a Pulitzer for his reporting at the Washington Post, and today he reveals in the NY Times that he's an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines.
His story is heartbreaking and is required reading.
My greater concern is which Republican in Congress/2012 Clown Car will be the first to demand President Obama have him immediately arrested and deported and the Washington Post fined and stripped of the Pulitzer, and how the national debate Vargas hopes to kindle with his support of the DREAM Act will consist entirely of "Democrats are soft on illegals" despite Republicans blocking all federal immigration legislation in the same way "Democrats are soft on terrorism" after President Obama, you know, gave the order to get OBL.
Considering any mention of immigrants in 2011 causes Republicans to go into hysterical fits of screaming and completely lying about as much as possible in order to racially scapegoat Latinos in order to earn points with hard right voters while the Obama administration is deporting record numbers and is still being accused of being too soft on immigration, I'm pretty sure Vargas is just as screwed as our "national immigration debate" is.
So when this all devolves into "Should the Washington Post editors be executed as traitors for hiring Vargas or merely imprisoned for life" sometime in the next few days, don't say you didn't know it was coming.
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