Jose Antonio Vargas - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

Jose Antonio Vargas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com


How to Pronounce Jose Antonio Vargas

#50
Most Popular
Boost
Feb 03, 1981 Antipolo, Luzon, Philippines 43 years old

Filipino journalist, immigration activist

Aquarius

About Jose Antonio Vargas

  • Jose Antonio Vargas (born February 3, 1981) is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist.
  • Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, he was part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting online and in print.
  • Vargas has also worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Daily News, and The Huffington Post.
  • He wrote, produced, and directed the autobiographical 2013 film, Documented, which CNN Films broadcast in June 2014. In a June 2011 essay in The New York Times Magazine, Vargas revealed his status as an undocumented immigrant in an effort to promote dialogue about the immigration system in the U.S.
  • and to advocate for the DREAM Act, which would provide children in similar circumstances with a path to citizenship.
  • A year later, a day after the publication of his Time cover story about his continued uncertainty regarding his immigration status, the Obama administration announced it was halting the deportation of undocumented immigrants age 30 and under, who would be eligible for the DREAM Act.
  • Vargas, who had just turned 31, did not qualify.Vargas is the founder of Define American, a nonprofit organization intended to open up dialogue about the criteria people use to determine who is an American.
  • He has said: "I am an American.
  • I just don't have the right papers."In September 2018 his memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, was published by Dey Street.

Search Celebrity

    Celebrity of the day
    English singer-songwriter, rapper and actor

    Dappy

    English singer-songwriter, rapper and actor