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Washington state revokes illegal immigrant’s driver’s license

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By Lornet Turnbull - The Seattle Times


SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JULY 11: Former Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jose Antonio Vargas speaks at the Commonwealth Club of California on July 11, 2011 in San Francisco, California. Vargas, an illegal immigrant who recently came out in an article in the New York Times Magazine, spoke in conversation with Hearst Newspapers Editor at Large Phil Bronstein about his life as an illegal immigrant and how he was able to work for major U.S. newspapers. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The state of Washington has canceled the driver’s license of a journalist who, in a New York Times Magazine article last month, revealed that for 14 years he kept a secret from his U.S. employers: He is an illegal immigrant.

While illegal immigrants can still obtain drivers licenses in Washington, licensing officials said they canceled Jose Antonio Vargas’ driver’s license because he could not prove that he lived in the state when he obtained it, as required by law.

In a piece he penned under the headline, “My life as an undocumented immigrant,â€

His mother must be proud of the fact that he was leading a life of a cheater and lier. What a guy. People should be outraged that this creep lived among them.

Deport! And make a big show of his deportation please!

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Originally Posted by agrneydgrl

His mother must be proud of the fact that he was leading a life of a cheater and lier. What a guy. People should be outraged that this creep lived among them.

Actually...I read somewhere that his mother pleaded with him not to go public with this information out of fear it would harm his career and result in deportation (I wouldn't worry if I were her).

Seems as if mother was perfectly fine with her son leading a life as a "cheater and liar."

The apple usually doesn't fall far from the tree...

Now are they going to say that was a job an American wouldnt have done as well? lol
Im sure ANY young American who went to college and studied journalism would have taken that job in a second. This is a poster boy for a job stolen by an illegal alien.
Years worth of employment, salary/compensation, experience, etc stolen from a young American by an Illegal alien.

A lot of journalism consists of taking current breaking news and corelating it with older news stories. It helps for a journalist to be able to go back to previous notes but the background info can come from other journalists news stories. There are media who are hiring journalists who are in India and the Philippines not resident in the United States to cover news which is happening here. A short current AP story and or cable video feed can be taken and expanded by a reporter somewhere just using commentary without the reporter ever being in the community they are covering. However there is a pay premium in a journalist being able to get a recognized byline and do face to face interviews. The difference in between what a journalist makes covering US local news begins at ten times and could go higher if there is a recognized reporter.

For example

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/11 ... pasadena11

Here is the rest of the article.
We post the entire article, some of our members do not like to click on source link.
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The revelation by someone who doesn't quite match the stereotype of an illegal immigrant sparked new conversations around the divisive issue of immigration and renewed calls for the federal government to address it.

Vargas, who had been sent by his mother to live with his grandparents in California, described how he kept his secret while employed with a series of news organizations, including The Washington Post, where he became part of a team of reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings.

He obtained a Washington driver's license weeks before his Oregon license was to expire on his 30th birthday earlier this year.

Washington is alone with New Mexico in granting full driver's licenses to people in the country illegally. Utah issues them only for driving, not for ID purposes. Oregon changed its laws three years ago.

Washington law requires that those who have a Social Security number provide it when they apply for a license but allows those who don't to sign a declaration to that effect. The law does, however, require applicants to live in the state of Washington.

After noticing a surge in out-of-state applicants without Social Security numbers, Department of Licensing officials in November began requiring proof of state residency from any applicant who lacked a Social Security number. Vargas' application never warranted scrutiny because the Social Security number he presented was valid. His grandfather had obtained it for him from the Social Security Administration when he'd first arrived in the U.S.

But the card itself had clearly stated: "Valid for work only with I.N.S. authorization," which means it couldn't be used for employment. Vargas said when he began looking for work, he and his grandfather doctored it to cover up the restriction.

State licensing officials launched an investigation after Vargas' article appeared in the magazine June 22.

They sent a letter to the Northgate-area address he had used when he applied, giving him 20 days to prove his state residency. The letter was returned unopened.

A spokeswoman for Vargas said he had no comment.

In The New York Times article, Vargas said he discovered his illegal standing when he applied for a driver's permit as a teenager in California. His grandfather then admitted to him that he had purchased the green card and other fake documents, Vargas said.

Vargas was hired for internships at the San Francisco Chronicle and the Philadelphia Daily News but was denied one at The Seattle Times because he didn't have proper documents.

He received an offer from The Washington Post.

Because a driver's license was required, Vargas said his network of mentors helped him get one from Oregon.

Brad Benfield, a Washington state Department of Licensing spokesman, said officials canceled the card earlier this week. It means that if Vargas's license is checked by law enforcement or anyone else, he will show up as not having a license at all.

It's not an uncommon step for the department to take.

Benfield said the department has canceled 187 licenses so far this year based on fraud that was discovered through use of facial-recognition technology. In most cases, the drivers had more than one record in the system.

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http://www.alipac.us/article-6436--0-0.html

Any word on if the New York Times has fired him? Or if they havent have they ben fined along with any other newspaper that prints his storys for knowingly hireing an ILLEGAL ALIEN?