WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered presidential politics and the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings in a high-profile reporting job at The Washington Post is going on network television to announce he is an illegal immigrant.
Jose Antonio Vargas tells ABC News he is outing himself as one of millions of illegal U.S. immigrants after living with the secret for years. He says he wants to push Congress to pass a bill called the DREAM Act that would allow people like himself who came to this country as children to become citizens.
Vargas says his mother took him to the airport in the Philippines when he was 12 and sent him to California to live with his grandparents.
Vargas was not immediately available for comment.
