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    Jose Antonio Vargas: The face of the entitled illegal immigrant
    By Michelle Malkin | July 16, 2014 | 11:57 am

    They've blown it again, big time. They just can't help themselves.

    During the Bush years, the open-borders movement won over bleeding hearts in the White House but alienated the American public with radical displays of La Raza ("The Race") militancy, desecrated American flags and Che Guevara shirt-wearing, fist-thrusting marches across the country.

    Left-wing public relations consultants taught the amnesty mob to tone it down, turn the flags right-side up and stop threatening Reconquista. But the phony red-white-and-blue dye job didn't last. The movement's true extremist, entitled roots can't be concealed for long.

    On Monday, leading illegal-alien journalist turned activist Jose Antonio Vargas engaged in a foolish stunt that will backfire on him and his allies in the media and Hollywood and on Capitol Hill. An openly defiant law-breaker who proudly calls himself "the most privileged undocumented immigrant in the country," Vargas traveled to Texas with a film crew to commune with illegal aliens surging across the border.

    But on his way out of the Rio Grande Valley, the former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner was detained at the McAllen, Texas, airport by Customs and Border Patrol. He was attempting to clear security and board a flight without legally required U.S. identification.

    No surprise: Vargas initially made it past the buffoons at the TSA.

    The media-savvy amnesty agitator telegraphed the stunt beforehand in a piece for Politico. He hyped sympathetic coverage from the liberal Huffington Post. He tweeted a photo of his Philippine passport and a pocket Constitution, which he audaciously presented to authorities in lieu of valid ID. And then Vargas' publicity minions captured and tweeted the exact moment when he was handcuffed, looking shocked and aggrieved that federal law enforcement officers would actually -- gasp! -- enforce the law.

    An illegal-alien Icarus, Vargas had been riding high after movie theaters and CNN aired his biographical, pro-illegal immigration documentary. His amnesty activism is backed by the progressive Tides Center, a project of George Soros and former ACORN chief organizer Drummond Pike. To his elite friends in the no-borders industry, he's a "hero."

    Journalists, celebrities and politicians immediately swallowed the propaganda bait, rallying to their privileged pal's side. "#DontDeportJose," they all cried in an orchestrated Twitter campaign. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of law-abiding people from around the world are waiting patiently for their backlogged visa and green card applications to be reviewed.

    Vargas' outraged reporter friends don't have much sympathy for those would-be Americans. Or for the Americans who've dedicated their lives to protecting homeland security and upholding our laws. Vargas' enablers jumped to condemn the CBP employees in McAllen for doing their jobs and demanded that he be freed from "unfair" and "out of hand" detention, as one hysterical Roll Call reporter put it.

    Unfair and out of hand?

    As I've noted previously, Vargas came here from the Philippines as a child, but knowingly broke multiple laws as an adult in order to stay in the country. After being supplied with a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a bogus Social Security number, he committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines. He ignored the counsel and instead used a friend's address to obtain an Oregon driver's license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car, board trains and airplanes, work at prestigious newspapers, and even gain access to the White House -- where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.

    The Vargas stunt will backfire because it is a smug and emblematic middle finger to everyone outside the D.C.-Manhattan bubble who believes in following the rules. As legal immigrant Asoka Samarasinghe wrote to me on Monday, "Michelle, this guy is a slap to the face of all us legal immigrants and citizens."

    As for "due process," celebrity illegal alien Vargas will undoubtedly get more bites at the immigration court and federal appeals apple than law-abiding citizens will ever enjoy (see Zeituni Onyango).

    But the sob-story violins play on. Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio sanctimoniously tweeted Monday afternoon: "I stand in solidarity with journalist and advocate [Vargas]. He exemplifies what America is about."

    Only if "America" means protecting leftist elitists from the consequences of their reckless, arrogant actions.

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/jose-a...rticle/2550908
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge View Post
    Jose Antonio Vargas: The face of the entitled illegal immigrant
    By Michelle Malkin | July 16, 2014 | 11:57 am

    They've blown it again, big time. They just can't help themselves.

    During the Bush years, the open-borders movement won over bleeding hearts in the White House but alienated the American public with radical displays of La Raza ("The Race") militancy, desecrated American flags and Che Guevara shirt-wearing, fist-thrusting marches across the country.

    Left-wing public relations consultants taught the amnesty mob to tone it down, turn the flags right-side up and stop threatening Reconquista. But the phony red-white-and-blue dye job didn't last. The movement's true extremist, entitled roots can't be concealed for long.

    On Monday, leading illegal-alien journalist turned activist Jose Antonio Vargas engaged in a foolish stunt that will backfire on him and his allies in the media and Hollywood and on Capitol Hill. An openly defiant law-breaker who proudly calls himself "the most privileged undocumented immigrant in the country," Vargas traveled to Texas with a film crew to commune with illegal aliens surging across the border.

    But on his way out of the Rio Grande Valley, the former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner was detained at the McAllen, Texas, airport by Customs and Border Patrol. He was attempting to clear security and board a flight without legally required U.S. identification.

    No surprise: Vargas initially made it past the buffoons at the TSA.

    The media-savvy amnesty agitator telegraphed the stunt beforehand in a piece for Politico. He hyped sympathetic coverage from the liberal Huffington Post. He tweeted a photo of his Philippine passport and a pocket Constitution, which he audaciously presented to authorities in lieu of valid ID. And then Vargas' publicity minions captured and tweeted the exact moment when he was handcuffed, looking shocked and aggrieved that federal law enforcement officers would actually -- gasp! -- enforce the law.

    An illegal-alien Icarus, Vargas had been riding high after movie theaters and CNN aired his biographical, pro-illegal immigration documentary. His amnesty activism is backed by the progressive Tides Center, a project of George Soros and former ACORN chief organizer Drummond Pike. To his elite friends in the no-borders industry, he's a "hero."

    Journalists, celebrities and politicians immediately swallowed the propaganda bait, rallying to their privileged pal's side. "#DontDeportJose," they all cried in an orchestrated Twitter campaign. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of law-abiding people from around the world are waiting patiently for their backlogged visa and green card applications to be reviewed.

    Vargas' outraged reporter friends don't have much sympathy for those would-be Americans. Or for the Americans who've dedicated their lives to protecting homeland security and upholding our laws. Vargas' enablers jumped to condemn the CBP employees in McAllen for doing their jobs and demanded that he be freed from "unfair" and "out of hand" detention, as one hysterical Roll Call reporter put it.

    Unfair and out of hand?

    As I've noted previously, Vargas came here from the Philippines as a child, but knowingly broke multiple laws as an adult in order to stay in the country. After being supplied with a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a bogus Social Security number, he committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines. He ignored the counsel and instead used a friend's address to obtain an Oregon driver's license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car, board trains and airplanes, work at prestigious newspapers, and even gain access to the White House -- where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.

    The Vargas stunt will backfire because it is a smug and emblematic middle finger to everyone outside the D.C.-Manhattan bubble who believes in following the rules. As legal immigrant Asoka Samarasinghe wrote to me on Monday, "Michelle, this guy is a slap to the face of all us legal immigrants and citizens."

    As for "due process," celebrity illegal alien Vargas will undoubtedly get more bites at the immigration court and federal appeals apple than law-abiding citizens will ever enjoy (see Zeituni Onyango).

    But the sob-story violins play on. Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio sanctimoniously tweeted Monday afternoon: "I stand in solidarity with journalist and advocate [Vargas]. He exemplifies what America is about."

    Only if "America" means protecting leftist elitists from the consequences of their reckless, arrogant actions.

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/jose-a...rticle/2550908
    Jose Antonio Vargas is mad, you guys. See, the illegal alien writer and activist heard it through the grapevine that MSNBC is still using a dirty word:


    [quote]Jose Antonio Vargas ✔ @joseiswriting

    I'll be on @CNN at around 7:30pET talking #immigration, #gop and @DefineAmerican w/ @donlemon

    Latino Political Ave @LatPoliticalAve

    @joseiswriting @CNN @DefineAmerican @donlemon great good reason to change the channel to CNN @hardball they continue to use "illegal aliens"

    6:19 PM - 14 Nov 2014
    Jose Antonio Vargas ✔ @joseiswriting

    Wait, what: @msnbc is using "illegal" to refer to people?
    #nohumanbeingisillegal #immigration @DefineAmerican

    6:24 PM - 14 Nov 2014
    Not seeing the problem?

    That’s because there isn’t one. If you immigrated here illegally, you are an illegal immigrant. Sorry, Jose, but them’s the breaks.

    http://twitchy.com/2014/11/14/wait-w...ould-say-this/
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    WashPost Oozes Over Illegal Alien Reporter-Activist Who Lied to Get a Post Job
    By Tim Graham | November 24, 2014

    Monday's Washington Post carried a huge three-page article on its former employee, Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal alien and amnesty activist. The headline was "HIDE, THEN SEEK: Amid Obama's executive actions, immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas tirelessly pursues change -- even as he hopes to reunite with his mother." The headline inside was "From journalism to activism: A life on the run."

    It took reporter Marc Fisher 38 paragraphs to arrive at Vargas lying to the Post to get a job – their search for young reporters that would help them meet diversity targets (in this case, Asian and openly gay) apparently made them an easy mark.

    He built his supercharged escalator to success with energy, smarts, creativity, deceit and outright lies. Beginning in high school, Vargas hid his immigration status from each of his employers as he rose through his profession, winning over editors who were hungry for young talent.

    "We were behind the curve on all things digital and along came Jose," says Peter Perl, a Washington Post editor who was in charge of hiring when Vargas was a summer intern in 2003. Vargas quickly established himself as an innovative, energetic reporter.

    He was hired into a full-time position and became "the voice of youth in the newsroom," Perl says. "He's charming and charismatic."

    But within a year of arriving at The Post, Vargas, shaking and evidently troubled, approached Perl and asked him to walk over to Lafayette Park. On a bench there, Vargas told the editor what he had not told anyone at his previous jobs, what no one at The Post had detected - that, according to the law, he didn't belong there. "He was unburdening himself to a father figure," Perl says. "He didn't ask for anything."

    For seven years, Perl who has since retired from The Post, told Vargas's secret to no one but his wife. (In 2011, when Vargas came clean, Perl was reprimanded, but he has no regrets about keeping silent to protect Vargas's career.)
    Vargas illegally arrived in America from the Philippines at age 12 in 1993. Fisher also explained that the Post felt Vargas didn't really come clean when he attempted to write a showy article outing himself as an illegal alien, but he sugared it up with classical music and yearning for his mother:

    In December 2010, the Senate voted down the Dream Act, which would have created a path to citizenship for young people brought to the country illegally as children. Vargas went out for a long walk to the Brooklyn Bridge, listening to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 - by turns delicate, melodramatic, overbearing. By the time he got back to his apartment, he says he knew he would end the lies. He hadn't seen his mother in 16 years. "It must seem strange that somebody who seems so social and friendly could keep secrets for so long," Vargas told me. "I don't know how the hell I managed it. The moment you tell someone, you feel guilty, because you're endangering them. I was a coward. A ticking time bomb. Either someone was going to out me, or I would out myself, or I would have to shut the f--- up for the rest of my life."

    He set out to write a first-person piece for his old employer, this newspaper, in which he would come out as an illegal immigrant. The Post assigned a team of editors to check the story rigorously; a story about lies had to be airtight. In the end, The Post's editor at the time, Marcus Brauchli, decided not to publish the story.

    Vargas offered it to the New York Times, which put it on the cover of its Sunday magazine. Brauchli says he has nothing to add to his original explanation, which said: "We made a judgment not to run the piece." Vargas says he thinks The Post bailed out because he had a second illegally obtained driver's license that he hadn't mentioned in his first draft.

    But he says he was committed to telling all [!?] and gladly added any fact the editors wanted. Some fellow journalists read the Times story and felt as if they'd been made unwitting parties to a lie. "I was duped," wrote Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, where Vargas had worked at the start of his career. "Jose lied to me and everyone else he worked for, and that's not kosher."

    The Post's ombudsman then, Patrick Pexton, wrote that Vargas had a reputation in the newsroom "for being tenacious and talented but also for being a relentless self-promoter whom many colleagues didn't trust." Pexton concluded that Vargas had now "crossed the line from journalist to advocate."
    These quotes are the closest thing to criticism in the article. Fisher ran sugary quotes from his subject:

    "I traffic in empathy," Vargas says. "I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone."
    But this passage may have been the weirdest, after the Post described the Vargas publicity stunt where he went to southern Texas to get arrested during the "unaccompanied minors" crisis:

    Even if the president's initiative stands and the threat of deportation is lifted for some, the politics of immigration remain volatile and Vargas's future is still uncertain, all of which leaves him eager to keep confronting the system. "I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible," he says. "I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating."
    He is writing a memoir and recently announced a deal with MTV to direct a documentary on what it means to be young and white in America.


    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra...-lied-get-post
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