Jose Antonio Vargas
@joseiswriting
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Creatively Borderless. Founder, @DefineAmerican; producer of @herelieslovebwy; author of of DEAR AMERICA and WHITE IS NOT A COUNTRY; a @calstate Trustee.
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Joined August 2008
A new edition of my book, DEAR AMERICA, has been released, with an updated introduction and an epilogue I wrote earlier this year that focuses on two things: the change in my own immigration status; and the need to fight the mis and disinformation that defines so much of the
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RT @ReichlinMelnick: NEW: Our team @immcouncil just released a major new report on Trump’s first six months. We look at three big immigrati….
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RT @ReichlinMelnick: This is illegal, inhumane, and idiotic. It’s illegal because ICE is wrong to claim that a 1996 law lets them strip t….
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Among my favorite naturalized American citizens, Albert Einstein ⬇️.
Albert Einstein defying the prevailing racial climate at the time by visiting Lincoln University, Pennsylvania — the first degree-granting black college in the US — to teach a class. He was an outspoken civil rights advocate for black Americans, 1946.
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RT @RepLSimon: Let me be clear, there is a man-made famine in Gaza right now. This is illegal and it is inhumane, Israel must let humanit….
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade
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RT @AlexPadilla4CA: Trump’s cruel raids are bad for the economy. They are on track to cost billions in lost productivity and tax revenue.….
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As we get deeper in our robotics era, can we work together in ensuring that physical human beings are treated like human beings?.
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RT @AlexCTaliadoros: New data reported by @axios:. More than 60% of ICE arrests in DC and Virginia target immigrants without any criminal c….
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RT @PabloReports: Angus King Moves to Block ICE from Accessing DACA Data.
migrantinsider.com
The Maine independent joins Senate Democrats to stop Trump’s deportation machine from weaponizing the personal records of Dreamers.
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RT @JamesQueallyLAT: 3 U.S. Marine brothers faced toughest mission: Getting their dad freed from ICE custody -- Good one from @tarantulaarm….
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Masked federal agents beat and arrested Narciso Barranco as he tended to a lawn in Santa Ana.
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RT @mkhammer: Some celebrity deaths hit harder, maybe just because they embody your childhood or adolescence in a more powerful way than ot….
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RT @jkbjournalist: NEW: "Each bed at the detention camp is expected to cost $245 a day — roughly the price of one night this week at the In….
miamiherald.com
The Trump administration says each bed at the detention camp is expected to cost $245 a day — roughly the price of one night this week at the Intercontinental Miami hotel.
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Follow the money. cc: journalists ⬇️.
Between construction and operation, the first year is going to cost about $600 million. If it holds the maximum capacity of 3,000 people, that would be a price of $200,000 per person incarcerated there. Someone is stealing money somewhere.
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RT @LongTimeHistory: ICE detain U.S. citizen outside grocery store—beat him with baton, shove his head into the ground & give him a concuss….
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RT @KarenAttiah: So. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.
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The "White" in Obama is the part of him that anti-Black Americans struggle to understand. Understanding it means "Barry" is as much of them as he is anyone else. He's American. ⤵️.
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RT @MrOlmos: “He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside. He loved that it was fast paced. His co-wo….
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Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and mute, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City, unable to communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U.S. agents "don’t care whether...
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