Meet America’s Most Famous Undocumented Immigrant On How To Define ‘American’

Posted by | September 7, 2014 08:36 | Filed under: Politics Radio Interviews Top Stories


Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who has been in the United States since he was 12. This summer he was detained by border patrol in McAllen, Texas and then released because he had no prior immigration or criminal record. He explained to me on radio the plight of people like him, and how you define “American.”

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4 responses to Meet America’s Most Famous Undocumented Immigrant On How To Define ‘American’

  1. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker September 7th, 2014 at 10:01

    Immigrants from around the globe came to America over decades and built this nation to what it is today.
    Once again, conservatives and the rightwing teabagger Taliban are on the wrong side of history.

    • Jimmy Smith September 7th, 2014 at 10:46

      Every group of established immigrants hates the new guys – there has been various bouts of hatred against the Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Eastern Europeans, Germans, Italians when they originally immigrated to the US.
      I wonder, after this new set of immigrants is established, who will we hate next?

  2. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker September 7th, 2014 at 10:01

    Immigrants from around the globe came to America over decades and built this nation to what it is today.
    Once again, conservatives and the rightwing teabagger Taliban are on the wrong side of history.

    • Jimmy Smith September 7th, 2014 at 10:46

      Every group of established immigrants hates the new guys – there has been various bouts of hatred against the Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Eastern Europeans, Germans, Italians when they originally immigrated to the US.
      I wonder, after this new set of immigrants is established, who will we hate next?

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