Jose Antonio Vergas: My Life As An Illegal Immigrants

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Illegal immigrants has many background stories about how they survived through the journey and afterward. No one really knows about their life story until people actually read about them or know them in person. Many people leave their family members and come to the United States just for better job, education and life in general. Jose Antonio Vargas is also an illegal immigrant who came to the United States as a child with a stranger, leaving his mother behind. He didn’t know that he was an illegal immigrant until he went to get his driver 's license. Ever since he was ashamed of himself and wanted to reveal himself. That’s why he wrote an essay called “my life as an undocumented immigrant” in the New York Times magazine to tell everyone that he is an …show more content…

He never committed any crimes, therefore police doesn’t have any bad record of him. Many people believe that some illegal immigrants are criminals, but in his magazine he showed the readers that not everyone are same. There are many illegal immigrants who caused no harm to anyone. They are just here to live a normal life. Vergas stated that “there are believed to be 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. We’re not always who you think we are. Some pick your strawberries or care for your children” (paragraph 9). Those who believe undocumented immigrants are bad people will change their thoughts because if they were bad then how and why would Americans trust them to take care of their children. There are some people who work for less money, but the rate of undocumented immigrants in college is increasing every day. That means they will contribute a lot to the economy and the society by working at better jobs. As a result, Vergas not only touch reader’s emotion but he also removed some stereo type ideas from peoples

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