Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Why I Turned Myself in to DHS - Jose Antonio Vargas - POLITICO Magazine

Why I Turned Myself in to DHS - Jose Antonio Vargas - POLITICO Magazine: "Nearly 21 years since arriving in the United States, I received my first set of papers from immigration officials after being arrested and briefly detained in the Texas border in July. The first page reads: “Warrant of Arrest for Alien.”

A month later—in lieu of Congress passing fair and meaningful immigration reform, and in the now-dashed hope that President Obama would be taking executive action soon—I turned myself into the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), joining 10 other undocumented immigrants in launching a campaign called #1of11Million."



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