Jose Antonio Vargas: The face of the entitled illegal alien
By Michelle Malkin
MichelleMalkin.com
They’ve blown it again, big time. They just can’t
help themselves.
During the Bush years, the open-borders movement won
over bleeding hearts in the White House but
alienated the American public with radical displays
of
La Raza (“The Race”) militancy,
desecrated American flags and
Che Guevara shirt-wearing, fist-thrusting
marches across the country.
Left-wing public relations consultants taught the
amnesty mob to tone it down, turn the flags
right-side up and stop threatening
Reconquista. But the
phony red-white-and-blue dye job didn’t last.
The movement’s true extremist, entitled roots can’t
be concealed for long.
On Monday, leading illegal-alien journalist turned
activist Jose Antonio Vargas engaged in a foolish
stunt that will backfire on him and his allies in
the media and Hollywood and on Capitol Hill. An
openly defiant law-breaker who proudly calls himself
“the most privileged undocumented immigrant in the
country,” Vargas traveled to Texas with a film
crew to commune with illegal aliens surging across
the border.
But on his way out of the Rio Grande Valley, the
former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize
winner was detained at the McAllen, Texas, airport
by Customs and Border Patrol. He was
attempting to clear security and board a flight
without legally required U.S. identification.
No surprise: Vargas
initially made it past the buffoons at the TSA.
The media-savvy amnesty agitator telegraphed the
stunt beforehand in a piece for Politico. He hyped
sympathetic coverage from the liberal Huffington
Post. He tweeted a photo of his Philippine passport
and a pocket Constitution, which he audaciously
presented to authorities in lieu of valid ID.
And then Vargas’ publicity minions
captured and tweeted the exact moment when he was
handcuffed, looking shocked and aggrieved that
federal law enforcement officers would actually —
gasp! — enforce the law.
An illegal-alien Icarus, Vargas had been riding high
after movie theaters and CNN aired his
biographical, pro-illegal immigration documentary.
His amnesty activism is backed by the progressive
Tides Center, a project of George Soros and former
ACORN chief organizer Drummond Pike. To his elite
friends in the no-borders industry, he’s a
“hero.”
Journalists, celebrities and politicians immediately
swallowed the propaganda bait, rallying to their
privileged pal’s side.
“#DontDeportJose,” they all cried in an
orchestrated Twitter campaign.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of
law-abiding people from around the world are waiting
patiently for their
backlogged visa and green card applications to
be reviewed.
Vargas’ outraged reporter friends don’t have much
sympathy for those would-be Americans. Or for the
Americans who’ve dedicated their lives to protecting
homeland security and upholding our laws. Vargas’
enablers jumped to condemn the CBP employees in
McAllen for doing their jobs and demanded that he be
freed from
“unfair” and “out of hand” detention, as one
hysterical Roll Call reporter put it.
Unfair and out of hand?
As I’ve
noted previously, Vargas came here from the
Philippines as a child, but
knowingly broke multiple laws as an adult in
order to stay in the country. After being supplied
with a
fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card
and a bogus Social Security number, 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.
He ignored the counsel and instead used a friend’s
address to obtain an Oregon driver’s 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.
The Vargas stunt will backfire because it is a smug
and emblematic middle finger to everyone outside the
D.C.-Manhattan bubble who believes in following the
rules. As legal immigrant
Asoka Samarasinghe wrote to me on Monday,
“Michelle, this guy is a slap to the face of all us
legal immigrants and citizens.”
As for
“due process,” celebrity illegal alien Vargas
will undoubtedly get more bites at the immigration
court and federal appeals apple than law-abiding
citizens will ever enjoy (see
Zeituni Onyango).
But the sob-story violins play on. Democratic New
York Mayor
Bill de Blasio sanctimoniously tweeted Monday
afternoon: “I stand in solidarity with journalist
and advocate (Vargas). He exemplifies what America
is about.”
Only if “America” means protecting leftist law-breakers from the consequences of their reckless, arrogant actions.
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2014