Friday, May 2, 2014

Documented: new film illustrates US immigration's kinks and contradictions

Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented migrant who came to America at 12, tells his personal story in this new film

Few people have done as much to illuminate the kinks and contradictions of Americas broken immigration policy as Jose Antonio Vargas. Perhaps no one has done as much to put a human face on the crisis.

In June 2011, Vargas, then a 30-year-old Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, disclosed in a story published in the New York Times Magazine that, for two decades, he had been living and working in the United States as an undocumented migrant. He arrived from the Philippines at age 12. He was raised in Mountain View, California, by his grandparents, who hid his undocumented status from him. When he published his story, he had not seen his mother, who remained in the Philippines, for 18 years.

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/02/documented-jose-antonio-vargas-us-immigration-film

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