The Hill News

We’ve all lied at one point or another in our lives. We’ve all kept secrets. But last week Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The Washington Post, came out with the mother of all secrets â€" a story at once unfathomable for most Americans but reality for 11 million people in the United States.
 
Vargas is an undocumented immigrant who at any time could be deported from the country he has called home since he was a boy.
 
Vargas’s story reminds us that the American dream is still alive and well. His list of accomplishments is impressive, culminating in a shared Pulitzer Prize while at the Washington Post. Here is a man who has taken extraordinary risks, but managed extraordinary accomplishments. Yet he is not an isolated case. Vargas himself cites the four courageous DREAM Act students who walked 1,500 miles from Florida to Washington D.C. to raise awareness about the plight of undocumented students as influencing his! own decision. 

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