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Wash. cancels illegal immigrant reporter's license
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state has canceled the driver's license of a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who attracted national attention with his disclosure that he is an illegal immigrant.
Department of Licensing spokeswoman Christine Anthony said Thursday that officials opened an investigation after Jose Antonio Vargas' essay about his background was published in the New York Times Magazine in June.
Vargas wrote in his essay that he emigrated from the Philippines in 1993 when he was 12 years old at the wish of his mother. He moved to California, where his grandparents had arranged forged documents for him. When he was 16, Vargas wrote, he found out that he was in the country illegally after he tried to obtain a driver's permit with those documents.
He said that he obtained a driver's license in Washington earlier this year after his Oregon license expired.
"We conducted in an investigation and concluded that he wasn't residing at the address he provided us," Anthony said.
The Licensing Department sent Vargas a letter requesting proof of residency, and the letter was returned. The state canceled his license July 18.
In his essay, Vargas wrote about worrying that his Oregon license would expire when he turned 30.
"Early this year, just two weeks before my 30th birthday, I won a small reprieve: I obtained a driver's license in the state of Washington. The license is valid until 2016. This offered me five more years of acceptable identification — but also five more years of fear, of lying to people I respect and institutions that trusted me, of running away from who I am," Vargas wrote.
Because Vargas didn't surrender his license, he will still have a card that he presumably can still use to board an airplane or obtain other services that require ID. But if authorities run a background check, for example if Vargas gets pulled over while driving, it will show that the license is not valid, Anthony said.
http://news.yahoo.com/wash-cancels-illegal-immigrant-reporters-license-195816712.html
unreal...where is obama's admin on this? upholding the law? or going after their political opponents? i guess the states will have to do obama's job because he refuses to do so.
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state has canceled the driver's license of a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who attracted national attention with his disclosure that he is an illegal immigrant.
Department of Licensing spokeswoman Christine Anthony said Thursday that officials opened an investigation after Jose Antonio Vargas' essay about his background was published in the New York Times Magazine in June.
Vargas wrote in his essay that he emigrated from the Philippines in 1993 when he was 12 years old at the wish of his mother. He moved to California, where his grandparents had arranged forged documents for him. When he was 16, Vargas wrote, he found out that he was in the country illegally after he tried to obtain a driver's permit with those documents.
He said that he obtained a driver's license in Washington earlier this year after his Oregon license expired.
"We conducted in an investigation and concluded that he wasn't residing at the address he provided us," Anthony said.
The Licensing Department sent Vargas a letter requesting proof of residency, and the letter was returned. The state canceled his license July 18.
In his essay, Vargas wrote about worrying that his Oregon license would expire when he turned 30.
"Early this year, just two weeks before my 30th birthday, I won a small reprieve: I obtained a driver's license in the state of Washington. The license is valid until 2016. This offered me five more years of acceptable identification — but also five more years of fear, of lying to people I respect and institutions that trusted me, of running away from who I am," Vargas wrote.
Because Vargas didn't surrender his license, he will still have a card that he presumably can still use to board an airplane or obtain other services that require ID. But if authorities run a background check, for example if Vargas gets pulled over while driving, it will show that the license is not valid, Anthony said.
http://news.yahoo.com/wash-cancels-illegal-immigrant-reporters-license-195816712.html
unreal...where is obama's admin on this? upholding the law? or going after their political opponents? i guess the states will have to do obama's job because he refuses to do so.