Fil-Am opens immigration hearings in US Senate
By Nimfa U. Rueda
“What do you want to do with me?” Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas asked the members of the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday.
“What do you want to do with me?” Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas asked the members of the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino-American journalist and immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas was arrested Friday (Saturday in Manila) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after he was caught driving without a valid license.
It is safe to say that every journalist worth his (or her) salt here in the United States dreams of seeing his byline on Washington Post, New York Times and TIME. As a young journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas entertained those dreams.
Young Filipinos who have officially joined the TNT or tago nang tago (always in hiding) bandwagon in the United States may now heave a collective sigh of relief.
In a building that houses Seafood City, an Asian supermarket, and Goldilocks, Max Fried Chicken, Chow King, and Beard Papa, all food outlets catering mostly to Filipino-Americans, Jose Antonio Vargas faced a crowd composed largely of Filipinos along with a smattering of blacks and Latinos. Vargas hit the front pages and became a popular guest on the talk show circuit after he declared that he was in the US illegally.
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Filipino American journalist and Pulitzer Prize awardee for “Breaking news Reporting”, will be returning to San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon valley for a series of meetings and events on immigration.
In 2011, the coming out of two undocumented Filipino migrants received public attention. Their disclosures have had an impact on the current political debate in the United States on immigration reform. These are the stories of two “Joses.”
More than 100,000 people across the United States have joined an immigration drive began by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a Filipino who admitted to being an illegal immigrant in the US.
I had the chance to scoop the mainstream press almost three months ago with the story of the successful Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino reporter from the Washington Post who was voluntarily outing himself as an undocumented immigrant. Of course everyone now knows of Jose Antonio Vargas but back then, virtually no one did. I had all the [...]
SEATTLE—Washington state has canceled the driver’s license of a Filipino Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who publicly said he is an illegal immigrant. Officials opened an investigation after Jose Antonio Vargas’ essay about his background was published in the New York Times Magazine in June, Department of Licensing spokeswoman Christine Anthony said Thursday. Vargas, who is [...]
Now that the whole Pinoy world (well, maybe most of it) knows about Jose Antonio Vargas, why am I left with a big question? And even a few smaller queries? Meanwhile, why is it that a few folks with whom I’ve discussed Mr. Vargas’ dilemma find his motives suspect? Didn’t one of them bristle at [...]
“I’m done running. I’m exhausted. I don’t want that life anymore,” he had said in his lengthy confession entitled “Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” published in the New York Times on June 22, 2011. Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist admitted in his article that he entered the United States illegally when he was [...]
