A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas, has just announced that he is an undocumented immigrant in a major article that just went up on the New York Times website. Tomorrow evening ABC News will be devoting its Nightline program to the story. Here are the links:
Here’s the Nightline link. Will air tonight (Thursday) at 11:35 ET: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/immigration-journalist-jose-antonio-vargas-fights-dream-act/story?id=13899697
And here’s the New York Times piece which is available now online: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html?hp
For more information on the DREAM Act see:
- The DREAM Act: Creating Opportunities for Immigrant Students and Supporting the U.S. Economy (IPC Fact Check, July 2010)
- Essential to the Fight: Immigrants in the Military (IPC Special Report, November, 2009)
- IPC DREAM Act Resource Page
