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"We Are Americans" -- the reality of undocumented immigrants

My friend -- former Daily News intern, Pulitzer co-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas -- writes the cover story (see, you CAN be provocative and smart at the same time) in this week's Time. It's a message that every American -- citizen or not -- should hear:

There are an estimated 11.5 million people like me in this country, human beings with stories as varied as America itself, yet lacking a legal claim to exist here. It's an issue that touches people of all ethnicities and backgrounds: Latinos and Asians, blacks and whites. (And, yes, undocumented immigrants come from all sorts of countries like Israel, Nigeria and Germany.) It's an issue that goes beyond election-year politics and transcends the limitations of our broken immigration system and the policies being written to address them.

Looking forward to a typically nuanced headline on the Drudge Report like "Time Hires Illegal To Write Cover Story."