2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Amid criticism that has unleashed President Donald Trump's latest determinations regarding immigration issues, the state of California seems to want to validate the importance of residents from other countries in its community.
A school in the city of Mountain View made the decision to assume the name of Jose Antonio Vargas, in honor of a renowned journalist who is a Filipino undocumented immigrant and who came to the United States at the age of 12 in 1993.
As revealed by CNN through his online site, after the news was released, the journalist was not only honored, he also took the opportunity to express his criticism at the way in which young people and children without documents are being held in cells. in the state of Texas.
"I have no words to express how important this honor is," said the Pulitzer Prize winner and writer for prestigious publications such as The New Yorker, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Philadelphia Daily News. "I hope this is a school where students and their families feel welcome to the United States," he added.
The writer also emphasized his rejection of the use of the word "illegal" by some organizations and the media. "It is inhumane … to call these kids and their parents illegal."
Of course, he also referred to the situation faced by hundreds of young people who are being held in Texas, a scenario that has sparked criticism of all kinds against the Trump government. "These boys are detained because we believe they do not deserve to be treated humanely … They are detained in cages when they should be in classrooms, not in detention centers," said a well-known communicator.
Vargas, who is still part of the millions of immigrants who do not have documents, revealed in 2011 in a column for the New York Times magazine that his grandfather paid a "coyote" $ 4,500 to help him enter the country pretending that was his uncle.
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