Fil-Am journalist held then freed at US border

Pullitzer-prize winning journalist and activist Jose Antonio Vargas, who revealed in 2011 that he is an undocumented immigrant, was freed by US border agents after being held for several hours on Tuesday, July 15. Vargas was in Texas to highlight the plight of tens of thousands of children from Central America who have flooded across the border and into the United States in the past year in search of a better life, his campaign group Define American said. Campaigners and leaders including the mayor of New York had called for the Philippine-born 33-year-old’s release from detention. Over 57,000 have illegally entered the United States since October, the majority arriving in Texas, according to official US data. 

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