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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Admits He's an Illegal Immigrant



WASHINGTON -- A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered presidential politics and the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings for The Washington Post is going on network television to announce he is an illegal immigrant.

Jose Antonio Vargas tells ABC News in interviews airing Thursday and Friday that he is outing himself as one of millions of illegal U.S. immigrants after living with the secret for years. He also told his story in a New York Times Magazine essay published online Wednesday.

"I'm done running. I'm exhausted," Vargas wrote. "I don't want that life anymore."

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