Jose Antonio Vargas: ‘I’m an American, I Just Don’t Have the Right Kind of Papers’ (VIDEO)

Watch genConnect interview Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize winner and Founder of Define American, on his story as an undocumented immigrant. ”I was really hoping to expose just how broken the system is in terms of what somebody who’s undocumented has to navigate. When people think undocumented immigrants people have an idea of who they think we might be in terms of crossing borders, or being nannys, or waiting/busing tables; that’s been kind of the stereotype etched in people’s memories and that’s been not that accurate.”

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