With great fanfare and elite media sympathy Jose Antonio Vargas publicly declared himself an undocumented immigrant this week. Undocumented my you-know-what. In the felony-friendly pages of The New York Crimes -- er Times -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned illegal-alien activist spilled the beans on all the illegal IDs he amassed over the years. He had documents coming out of his ears.
The Times featured full-color photos of Vargas fake document trove -- including a fake passport with a fake name a fake green card and a Social Security card his grandfather doctored for him at a Kinkos. He committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002 while pursuing his journalism career goals an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines.
Following the rules would have meant a 10-year bar to reentry into America. Making false claims of citizenship is a felony offense. Document fraud is a felony offense.
Vargas who frames himself as a helpless victim freely chose instead to secure yet more dummy documents. He used a friends address to obtain an Oregon drivers license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car board trains and airplanes work at prestigious newspapers and even gain access to the White House -- where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.
At least Vargas tells the truth when he says hes not alone. Go visit a 7-11 in the D.C. suburbs. Or the countless vendors in MacArthur Park in East L.A. Or any of the 19 cities in 11 states from Massachusetts to Ohio to Kentucky where a massive Mexico-based highly sophisticated and violent fraudulent-document trafficking ring operated until February 2011. Undocumented workers and undocumented immigrants have plenty of documents.
The persistent use of these open-borders euphemisms to describe Vargas and countless millions like him is a perfect illumination of the agenda-driven dominant progressive media.
Theyre as activist inside their newsrooms as Vargas is out in the open now. Bleeding-heart editors were hoaxed by a prominent colleague exposed to liability and yet still champion his serial subversion of the law. San Francisco Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein bragged that he was duped by Vargas but endorses his subterfuge because Vargas lobbying campaign for the illegal-alien student bailout known as the DREAM Act just might lubricate the politically tarred-up wheels of government and help craft sane immigration policy.
Whos insane? The Vargas deceit is not an object lesson about Americas failure to show compassion. Its another stark reminder of Americas dangerous failure to learn from 9/11.
Time and again security experts have warned about how jihadists have exploited lax immigration and ID enforcement. Drivers licenses are gateways into the American mainstream. They allow residents to establish an identity and gain a foothold into their communities. They help you open bank accounts enter secure facilities board planes and do things like drive tractor-trailers carrying hazardous materials.
Its been nearly 10 years since several of the 19 9/11 hijackers operated in the country using hundreds of illicitly obtained fake drivers licenses and IDs. Most states tightened licensing rules yet Vargas easily obtained a drivers license not only in Oregon but more recently in Washington State. He again used a friends residence to pass muster. Washington States licensing bureaucracy still does not check citizenship. The man sitting in the White House campaigned to keep drivers license laws as loose as possible for the open-borders lobby. He appointed illegal-alien lobbyists to top federal immigration positions. His head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement just signed a memo pushing the DREAM Act through by administrative fiat. And the privacy of illegal aliens still trumps national security.
I ask again: Whos insane?
Vargas believes his sob story is an argument for giving up on immigration enforcement and passing a mass amnesty. Its a sob story all right. Homeland security officials across the country should be weeping at the open mockery Vargas and his enablers have made of the law.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
With great fanfare and elite media sympathy Jose Antonio Vargas publicly declared himself an undocumented immigrant this week. Undocumented my you-know-what. In the felony-friendly pages of The New York Crimes -- er Times -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned illegal-alien activist spilled the beans on all the illegal IDs he amassed over the years. He had documents coming out of his ears.
The Times featured full-color photos of Vargas fake document trove -- including a fake passport with a fake name a fake green card and a Social Security card his grandfather doctored for him at a Kinkos. He committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002 while pursuing his journalism career goals an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines.
Following the rules would have meant a 10-year bar to reentry into America. Making false claims of citizenship is a felony offense. Document fraud is a felony offense.
Vargas who frames himself as a helpless victim freely chose instead to secure yet more dummy documents. He used a friends address to obtain an Oregon drivers license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car board trains and airplanes work at prestigious newspapers and even gain access to the White House -- where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.
At least Vargas tells the truth when he says hes not alone. Go visit a 7-11 in the D.C. suburbs. Or the countless vendors in MacArthur Park in East L.A. Or any of the 19 cities in 11 states from Massachusetts to Ohio to Kentucky where a massive Mexico-based highly sophisticated and violent fraudulent-document trafficking ring operated until February 2011. Undocumented workers and undocumented immigrants have plenty of documents.
The persistent use of these open-borders euphemisms to describe Vargas and countless millions like him is a perfect illumination of the agenda-driven dominant progressive media.
Theyre as activist inside their newsrooms as Vargas is out in the open now. Bleeding-heart editors were hoaxed by a prominent colleague exposed to liability and yet still champion his serial subversion of the law. San Francisco Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein bragged that he was duped by Vargas but endorses his subterfuge because Vargas lobbying campaign for the illegal-alien student bailout known as the DREAM Act just might lubricate the politically tarred-up wheels of government and help craft sane immigration policy.
Whos insane? The Vargas deceit is not an object lesson about Americas failure to show compassion. Its another stark reminder of Americas dangerous failure to learn from 9/11.
Time and again security experts have warned about how jihadists have exploited lax immigration and ID enforcement. Drivers licenses are gateways into the American mainstream. They allow residents to establish an identity and gain a foothold into their communities. They help you open bank accounts enter secure facilities board planes and do things like drive tractor-trailers carrying hazardous materials.
Its been nearly 10 years since several of the 19 9/11 hijackers operated in the country using hundreds of illicitly obtained fake drivers licenses and IDs. Most states tightened licensing rules yet Vargas easily obtained a drivers license not only in Oregon but more recently in Washington State. He again used a friends residence to pass muster. Washington States licensing bureaucracy still does not check citizenship. The man sitting in the White House campaigned to keep drivers license laws as loose as possible for the open-borders lobby. He appointed illegal-alien lobbyists to top federal immigration positions. His head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement just signed a memo pushing the DREAM Act through by administrative fiat. And the privacy of illegal aliens still trumps national security.
I ask again: Whos insane?
Vargas believes his sob story is an argument for giving up on immigration enforcement and passing a mass amnesty. Its a sob story all right. Homeland security officials across the country should be weeping at the open mockery Vargas and his enablers have made of the law.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
