Jose Antonio Vargas

Journalist, Activist

air date: May 9, 2019

Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas discusses immigration and his memoir “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.”

Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and a leading voice for the human rights of immigrants. He is the founder of Define American, the nation’s leading non-profit media and culture organization that fights injustice and anti-immigrant hate through the power of storytelling. His memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, was published by HarperCollins in fall 2018.

• Full Episode
• To President Trump:
• Why do people from Latin American countries immigrate to the U.S.?
• Immigration under President Barack Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton

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