T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 1 一不小心被移民警察抓起来了，巴马赶紧营救。
Outspoken Immigrant Advocate, Also Undocumented, Is Held in Texas
Jose Antonio Vargas, Immigrant Activist, Is Detained at McAllen Airport
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/us/Jose-Antonio-Vargas-immigr
McALLEN, Tex. — Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented Filipino immigrant who
is arguably the most high-profile leader of the immigrants’ rights
movement, was detained Tuesday morning at a Border Patrol checkpoint in the
airport here before he could board a flight to Houston.
He was handcuffed and taken for processing to the McAllen Border Patrol
station, which has been teeming in recent weeks with undocumented immigrants
from Central America, part of a wave of migrants who have been streaming
over the border.
Mr. Vargas, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, came last week to McAllen, a city
just a few miles north of the border with Mexico, for a news conference and
vigil organized by United We Dream, an undocumented youth organization,
outside a shelter downtown for recently released Central American migrants.
Mr. Vargas wrote recently that he did not realize until he was here that he
would have to cross through a Customs and Border Protection checkpoint to
leave the Rio Grande Valley. Mr. Vargas travels on a valid Philippine
passport, but it has no current United States visa in it.
His apprehension poses a dilemma for the Obama administration, which will
now have to decide how to handle his case at a time when the border
situation has made all decisions about immigration high profile and
politically fraught.
Jose Antonio Vargas in June. Credit Kevork Djansezian/Reuters
Mr. Vargas insisted he never intended to be detained when he came to South
Texas, but his supporters were working hard — on Twitter and at a news
conference in front of the Border Patrol station where he was held — to use
the publicity to advance their demands for fewer deportations of illegal
immigrants living in the country and more protections for the children
crossing recently.
In an interview Sunday, Mr. Vargas said he had flown to many events around
the country in recent months where he showed a documentary film he produced,
“Documented,” about his life as an undocumented immigrant. He had not
been stopped at airport checkpoints because Transportation Security
Administration officials checked his passport but not his immigration status.
“I didn’t even think twice about it,” when he accepted the invitation to
join the news conference, Mr. Vargas said. When he realized that he was
effectively trapped, he said, “No, this can’t be for real.” He wrote
about his situation in McAllen for Politico Magazine last week.
Because of McAllen’s proximity to the border, all airports and roadways in
this region have Border Patrol checkpoints.
Mr. Vargas has lived in the United States without papers since he was 12. He
was formerly a reporter for The Washington Post, where he was part of a
team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage in 2008. He
announced his undocumented status in an article in The New York Times
Magazine in 2011. | X*******G
发帖数: 14887 | | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 3
丫留着护照就是祸害，没护照是不就关几天后马路边放掉？
【在 X*******G 的大作中提到】
: 好像刚刚被遣返了。
: 拿了新闻奖也不管用。
| t*c
发帖数: 8291 | 4 没有合法身份怎么能给washington post工作呢？
雇佣不是要查SSN的么，没有合法身份能够搞到SSN?
who
the
immigrants
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 一不小心被移民警察抓起来了，巴马赶紧营救。
: Outspoken Immigrant Advocate, Also Undocumented, Is Held in Texas
: Jose Antonio Vargas, Immigrant Activist, Is Detained at McAllen Airport
: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/us/Jose-Antonio-Vargas-immigr
: McALLEN, Tex. — Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented Filipino immigrant who
: is arguably the most high-profile leader of the immigrants’ rights
: movement, was detained Tuesday morning at a Border Patrol checkpoint in the
: airport here before he could board a flight to Houston.
: He was handcuffed and taken for processing to the McAllen Border Patrol
: station, which has been teeming in recent weeks with undocumented immigrants
| t*c
发帖数: 8291 | 5 胡说什么啊，已经被释放了。
Department of Homeland Security officials said they had released Mr. Vargas
because he had no prior immigration or criminal record. They said their
focus was on deporting immigrants who posed security threats.
过去也被警察抓过，但是移民局不原意抓他
The police in Minnesota had held Mr. Vargas in 2012 on a traffic violation,
but immigration officials declined to detain him then.
【在 X*******G 的大作中提到】
: 好像刚刚被遣返了。
: 拿了新闻奖也不管用。
| H*********S
发帖数: 22772 | 6 一个著名的笑话但却是真实的：移民局要推进重点打击非法移民的专项斗争，劳模跳出
来反对，要是没有非法移民，你们移民局大楼早就是垃圾场了，一查果然，移民局大楼
里的清洁工基本都是非法劳模
【在 t*c 的大作中提到】
: 没有合法身份怎么能给washington post工作呢？
: 雇佣不是要查SSN的么，没有合法身份能够搞到SSN?
:
: who
: the
: immigrants
| X*******G
发帖数: 14887 | 7 搞错了，谢纠正。
Vargas
,
【在 t*c 的大作中提到】
: 胡说什么啊，已经被释放了。
: Department of Homeland Security officials said they had released Mr. Vargas
: because he had no prior immigration or criminal record. They said their
: focus was on deporting immigrants who posed security threats.
: 过去也被警察抓过，但是移民局不原意抓他
: The police in Minnesota had held Mr. Vargas in 2012 on a traffic violation,
: but immigration officials declined to detain him then.
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