please welcome jose antonio vargas. [cheering and applause] hey. mr. rgas, thanks so much for coming on. all right, sir. you are a journalist, true? >> yes, yes, i am. >> stephen: san francisco chronicle, new yorker, washington post, part of the post's pulitzer prize winning tea party for coverage of the virginia tech massacre, and in june you wrote an essay for the "times" magazine entitled "my life as an undocumented immigrant." you're abillegal alien. >> new york i'm undocumented. >> stephen: you're what we in the american world called "an illegal." you're an illegal. i think i've broken the law just having you in my studio. [laughter] >> no, this is actually an important point. i don't want like a 12-year-old sitting in middle school somewhere in america thinking that he or she is illegal. human beings are... >> stephen: the cops are coming from you, junior. put a chair in front of the doorknob because the federales are coming. you came from mexico, right? >> no, no, i'm from the philippines. >> >> stephen: that's warmer mexico. you get your sombrer

and there's one more thing you should know about jose antonio vargas, he's an illegal immigrant. eek vargas wrote a shocking article "the new york times" magazine laying out his own amazing story for the first time. he joins me now from washington, d.c. welcome. >> hi. thanks a lot for having me. >> our pleasure. you came here at the age of 12. >> yes. >> at the age of 16 you found out you're here illegally. for 14 years you have lived a lie. when was it that you felt i just can't continue to do this? >> i think last year, you know. in many ways last year was kind of the height of my career. i've been a journalist since i was 17 years old. all i've ever done is like tell stories. and this was a story, my own story that i was always too afraid to tell. and at the end of the day, i'm just one of, you know, millions of people who are living kind of this secret life. the only difference, of course, is i've been writing. i've been reporting all these years. >> i want to actually go back through the chronology a little bit. >> yeah. >> you were sent here when you were 12. you did not ma

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is killing the american dream or the dream act it seems to me a candid conversation with jose antonio vargas and me you talk about this false choice and sabotaging integration of. that we deport them all and we give them also this and ship can you talk about that and isn't that a problem in most important issues today too many black and white answers you need for simple answers short legislation you know do we not solve complex problems in america anymore. well but you know this goes back to the beginning of our conversation eight hundred some like me who evolved a consider myself a diehard have a crack to someone who identifies myself as a registered independent who votes based on the issue based on the person and it's extremely frustrating because there are actually a lot of us out there including a lot of friends i have raised and i had some are proud to republicans but you issue wise we don't really disagree that much and they are ultimately issue by issue voters who voted for people of the other party but there are a lot of us out there who feel that for that very reason we get locked i

he is interviewed by jose antonio vargas, for washington post reporter and senior contributing editor of the huffington opposed. this was posted by the computer history museum in california and is a little over an hour. >> guest: how is it going? >> host: i should begin by saying sometimes you can't trust the media. i am saying -- >> guest: no idea what you mean. >> host: someone who comes from the media. we oversimplified. we care more about -- we care more about the tension and conflict and less about depth and content. judging by the excerpt on 60 minutes, some reviews, you would think your book is like something out of the social network of the 1980s. like it is bill gates versus paul allen/test. someone said you are the bitter billionaire. so i am reading the book and wait a second. did they read the same book that i just read? the point i am trying to get at is this idea that in the book you write critically about yourself and what you have done and the failures you had just as quickly as you have written about microsoft or the relationship with bill gates. that is really intere

he immigrated from cuba as a boy and jose antonio vargas, a pulitzer prize winning former writer forthe washington post." thank you for being with me. two weeks ago you wrote this article coming out as an illegal. what were you trying to plush? it's a risky strategy. >> risky and a lot of people said irrational. in many way, the goal is to expose how incredibly dysfunctional and irrational the whole system is and has been for quite some time. in many ways, i represent kind of us, with a lot of people, how broken the immigration system is. and d 've never, this country, republicans, democrat, journalists have yet to come to one table and tell the truth about where we are on this issue. >> you spent most of your youth lying about it, deciding to lie about it even when you were a reporter. at one point you were told you are illegal. you didn't know that (. >> no. i found out. a lot of undocumented youths that come to this country. i didn't find out until i was 167 years old and went to dmv to get a driver's permit. that's when i find out. the first instinct, don't let anybody think i'm

of define american and former reporter for "the washington post" among other newspapers, jose antonio vargasor being here. >> thanks for having me. >> take me back to this moment when you first found out you were not here legally. >> i got here from the philippines when i was 12 and it wasn't until i was 16 when i went to the dmv, i found out. i gave the woman my driver's permit. she looked at my green card. she flipped it around and she said this is fake. don't come back here again. so that's when i went home and confronted -- >> you thought you had been in this country absolutely legally. your family has done everything right. >> exactly. i was living with my grandparents and i just assumed, why wouldn't i assume, you know? and yeah, so i found out when i was 16. this is 1997. >> and then it built -- you wanted to stay in the country, you love the country and i can imagine that you are quite nervous all the time and in fact, i read some of the things that you wrote, you built lie after lie after lie until it became too much. >> yes, i mean, i think -- i can imagine, you know, i'm not the o

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antonio. welcome to america's seventh largest city. the second largest in texas, the fifth fastest growing city in the united states. i want to take a moment to really thank sylvia garcia, arturo vargas, all of the naleo board members and each and every one of you who are here for coming down to san antonio today and the next few days to be part of a vy special conference. all of us, as elected officials, i know, he a million different things going on, very busy lives, but i believe this conference will be well worth your time, your energy and effort. it's an exciting time to be here in this city. we have seen san antonio grow in the last 30 years from a city of about 700,000 to a city of almost 1.4 million. the city, over the last couple of years, has been ranked as one of the most recession resistant cities in the united states. our unemployment rate right now is at 7.5%, a full point underneath the state of texas and well underneath the naon. we fl very blessed about san antonio as a community. more special than that, though, is, i think that what defines san antonio is its fundamental character. this city is the kind of place that, eventhough it's grown to a cityof 1.3 million pe

antonio. welcome to america's seventh largest city. the second largest in texas, the fifth fastest growing city in the united states. i want to take a moment to really thank sylvia garcia, arturo vargas board members and each and every one of you who are here for coming down to san antonio today and the next few days to be part of a very special conference. all of us, as elected officials, i know, have a million different things going on, very busy lives, but i believe this conference will be well worth your time, your energy and effort. it's an exciting time to be here in this city. we have seen san antonio grow in the last 30 years from a city of about 700,000 to a city of almost 1.4 million. the city, over the last couple of years, has been ranked as one of the most recession resistant cities in the united states. our unemployment rate right now is at 7.5%, a full point underneath the state of texas and well underneath the nation. we feel very blessed about san antonio as a community. more special than that, though, is, i think that what defines san antonio is its fundamental character. this city is the kind of place that, even though it's grown to a city of 1.3 million people, is

moment to really thank sylvia garcia, arturo vargas, all of the naleo board members and each and every one of you who are here for coming down to san antoniot few days to be part of a very special conference. all of us, as elected officials, i know, have a million different things going on, very busy lives, but i believe this conference will be well worth your time, your energy and effort. it's an exciting time to be here in this city. we have seen san antonio grow in the last 30 years from a city of about 700,000 to a city of almost 1.4 million. the city, over the last couple of years, has been ranked as one of the most recession resistant cities in the united states. our unemployment rate right now is at 7.5%, a full point underneath the state of texas and well underneath the nation. we feel very blessed about san antonio as a community. more special than that, though, is, i think that what defines san antonio is its fundamental character. this city is the kind place that, even though it's grown to a city of 1.3 million people, is the kind of place that, if you're in a restaurant and you sneeze, two or three people still say "bless you."