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Jose Antonio Vargas (born February 3, 1981) is a Filipino American journalist living and working in the United States.[2] He is known for his coverage of HIV, the Virginia Tech shootings, and the influence that politics and the Internet have on each other. In 2008, Vargas was part of the team which won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. Born in the Philippines, and raised in the United States from the age of 12, Vargas has worked for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post.
In a June 2011 essay in The New York Times Magazine, Vargas wrote he is an "undocumented immigrant".
Vargas undoubtedly is a sham.
I bet he is not illegal.
Lolo was a proud man, and I saw the shame on his face as he told me he purchased the card, along with other fake documents, for me. “Don’t show it to other people,” he warned.
I grew more aware of anti-immigrant sentiments and stereotypes: they don’t want to assimilate, they are a drain on society. They’re not talking about me, I would tell myself. I have something to contribute.
To do that, I had to work — and for that, I needed a Social Security number. Fortunately, my grandfather had already managed to get one for me.
The “uncle” who brought me here turned out to be a coyote, not a relative, my grandfather later explained. Lolo scraped together enough money — I eventually learned it was $4,500, a huge sum for him — to pay him to smuggle me here under a fake name and fake passport. (I never saw the passport again after the flight and have always assumed that the coyote kept it.) After I arrived in America, Lolo obtained a new fake Filipino passport, in my real name this time, adorned with a fake student visa, in addition to the fraudulent green card.
Using the fake passport, we went to the local Social Security Administration office and applied for a Social Security number and card. It was, I remember, a quick visit. When the card came in the mail, it had my full, real name, but it also clearly stated: “Valid for work only with I.N.S. authorization.”
When I began looking for work, a short time after the D.M.V. incident, my grandfather and I took the Social Security card to Kinko’s, where he covered the “I.N.S. authorization” text with a sliver of white tape. We then made photocopies of the card. At a glance, at least, the copies would look like copies of a regular, unrestricted Social Security card.
For more than a decade of getting part-time and full-time jobs, employers have rarely asked to check my original Social Security card. When they did, I showed the photocopied version, which they accepted.
I visited the White House, where I interviewed senior aides and covered a state dinner — and gave the Secret Service the Social Security number I obtained with false documents.
Originally posted by Night Star
There is a lot that illegals get away with and it is a shame.
Originally posted by habitforming
Originally posted by Night Star
There is a lot that illegals get away with and it is a shame.
You keep saying stuff like that.
So far here we have one.
Is one "a lot?"
Originally posted by muse7
Didn't you read the story? the fraudulent papers were given to him by his parents.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
Someone help me here, the guy visited the white house and gave the secret service his SS number, why aint he in jail?
I visited the White House, where I interviewed senior aides and covered a state dinner — and gave the Secret Service the Social Security number I obtained with false documents.
Isn't anyone seeing what I am seeing?
Originally posted by xuenchen
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
Someone help me here, the guy visited the white house and gave the secret service his SS number, why aint he in jail?
I visited the White House, where I interviewed senior aides and covered a state dinner — and gave the Secret Service the Social Security number I obtained with false documents.
Isn't anyone seeing what I am seeing?
Well it's obvious.
He is being protected.
The databases were "corrected" to his advantage.
He is being protected.
His agenda fits their hands.
Originally posted by habitforming
You keep saying stuff like that.
So far here we have one.
Is one "a lot?"
Originally posted by SourGrapes
Originally posted by habitforming
You keep saying stuff like that.
So far here we have one.
Is one "a lot?"
Two. One is in the white house.
This story just goes to show how easy it is to buy your way into top U.S. positions with fake documents and recycled social security numbers.