maddieschoep 's review for:

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

4.0

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An insightful memoir about Jose Antonio Vargas’s experience being an undocumented immigrant in the United States. Vargas tells his story of coming to the US from the Philippines as a young boy and then as a teenager discovering that his green card was fake. He explains the struggle of being undocumented and the constant fear of being discovered as undocumented. Vargas touches on how his personal experiences fit into our immigration system as a whole. He describes his internal conflicts, conflicts with other immigration (both documented and undocumented), and conflicts with the system. Toward the end of the book, Vargas debunks popular anti-immigration myths.