Title: Dear America Pdf Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
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“This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.” —Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow
“l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured.” —Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins
“This book couldn’t be more timely and more necessary.” —Dave Eggers, New York Times bestselling author of What Is the What and The Monk of Mokha
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.
“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at its core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can’t. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home.
After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom.”
—Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America
Who deserves citizenship? Why are immigrants of color criminalized? Reading this wonderful series of essays by Jose Antonio Vargas was eye-opening and particularly relevant to me. I'm a librarian at a high school where I believe a number of our students are undocumented. One of my former students, a student who was student body president his senior year, was detained when his undocumented status was notice as he was on the Dean's list at the University of Washington. Who would have known that Homeland Security uses dean's lists to find undocumented citizens. He was taken to a detention center and on track to be deported to a country he hadn't seen since he was 2. Fortunately people stood up for him and he remained in the US. Reading this essay memoir helped me realize even more fully the trials he must have faced. This was a lovely young man who I remember always helping other students. It is obvious that Jose is also this kind of person. So many of our undocumented immigrants embrace American ideals much more fully than many who take this privilege for granted. If you want to know what a true American Citizen is like read this book. Jose should be automatically naturalized because of this book. He is a man who is dedicated to making life better for others and isn't that what America is all about. We need to tell Trump that undocumented immigrants are one thing that makes America great and because of this we owe them our respect and help. Thank you Jose for this wonderful book.
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