Coming Out, Undocumented
Prominent journalist Jose Antonio Vargas has come out, as an illegal immigrant. His poignant tale, published in The New York Times online, underscores the absurdities and cruelties inherent in our dysfunctional immigration system. It’s a brave piece, and hopefully a change-inducing one.
And here is the back story about how it came to be published in The New York Times after, bizarrely, The Washington Post passed on it.