Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
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I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.
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I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
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A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.
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On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
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When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.
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I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.
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I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
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My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.
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It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.
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I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.
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Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration - strong, intense opinions.
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All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.
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When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.
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I think everyone deserves dignity.
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I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.
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When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn't anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn't any question I will not answer.
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As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?
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I remember the first article I ever wrote, and I saw my name in the paper, and I already knew I was undocumented, and I was thinking: 'How can they now say I don't exist?'
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Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.
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I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic.
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When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
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To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.
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Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?
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In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.