Border Patrol Releases America’s ‘Most Privileged’ Illegal Immigrant with ‘Permiso’
Tony Lee, Breitbart, July 15, 2014
On Tuesday, the U.S. Border Patrol released Jose Antonio Vargas, who has described himself as the country’s “most privileged” illegal immigrant, after detaining him earlier in the day at McAllen Airport for not having U.S. identification.
Vargas said he came to McAllen, Texas, “to shed a light on children who parts of America and many in the news media are actively turning their backs on. But what I saw was the generosity of the American people, documented and undocumented, in the Rio Grande Valley.”
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In a previous essay in Politico, Vargas had written that his celebrity and “visibility, frankly, has protected me” from deportation and detention. He acknowledged that “while hundreds of thousands of immigrants have been detained and deported in the past three years,” he has produced documentaries, co-founded an activist organization for illegal immigrants, and traveled to 43 different states.
Vargas was reportedly released with a notice to appear before an immigration judge, which is what many of the illegal immigrants flooding across the border think are “permisos” that will allow them to indefinitely stay in the country.
