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Jose Antonio Vargas

Film in many ways is very literal.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

I’m more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien who deserves to be jailed. I want to look them in the eye and say, ‘What makes you think I’m any different from you?’ I think for our generation, immigration rights is a civil rights issue.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

In many ways, I think I’ve always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they’d start picking my life apart, too.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, ‘If I’m going to come out with this, I’m going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can’t just be my story.’

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

I remember the first article I ever wrote, and I saw my name in the paper, and I already knew I was undocumented, and I was thinking: ‘How can they now say I don’t exist?’

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration – strong, intense opinions.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at ‘The Mountain View Voice,’ my hometown newspaper.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print – writing in English, interviewing Americans – validated my presence here.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver’s permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. ‘This is fake,’ she whispered. ‘Don’t come back here again.’

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a ‘platform,’ meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

Facebook’s privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

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