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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
by Jose Antonio Vargas
“I am here legally, but as a human being, I cannot be illegal because that doesn’t exist. People cannot be illegal.”
Jose Antonio Vargas’ Dear America hits close to home. When I read or hear the word “Filipino”, the first thing that comes to mind is “family”. Dear America displays Vargas’ “radical transparency” and the power of family sacrifice, blood related or not.
The United States of America is the country that Vargas calls home, but it is also the exact same country that doesn’t acknowledge his presence, the country that doesn’t consider him one of its own. He wrote “home should be the place where we feel safe and at peace. Home is not something I should have to earn… It occurred to me that I’d been in an intimate relationship with America, and there was no getting out.”
This book is moving and necessary, allowing me to better understand the immigration process, specifically for the undocumented in the United States.
Jose Antonio Vargas’ Dear America hits close to home. When I read or hear the word “Filipino”, the first thing that comes to mind is “family”. Dear America displays Vargas’ “radical transparency” and the power of family sacrifice, blood related or not.
The United States of America is the country that Vargas calls home, but it is also the exact same country that doesn’t acknowledge his presence, the country that doesn’t consider him one of its own. He wrote “home should be the place where we feel safe and at peace. Home is not something I should have to earn… It occurred to me that I’d been in an intimate relationship with America, and there was no getting out.”
This book is moving and necessary, allowing me to better understand the immigration process, specifically for the undocumented in the United States.