By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--June 24, 2011
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Rich is most proud of his work maintaining positive cultures and creating mentoring opportunities in the districts. His own experiences advising Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize winner and Senior Contributing Editor at The Huffington Post, through high school and beyond, has acted as a perfect example of the “American Dream” achieved through a successful experience in the public education system.Apparently Mr. Fischer believes that the “American dream” includes breaking dozens of laws in order to fool people into accepting you. I’ve looked in our founding documents for the sort of fraud, criminal activities and lies that Fischer says is the “American dream,” but have had no luck finding them. So, with the criminal help of California Public School officials and a fraud perpetrated via lax Oregon ID laws, Vargas got his job at the Washington Post. It is hard to believe that he spent more than a decade in this ruse without the newspaper ever finding out that all his tax information and legal status was a fraud. But now everyone knows. Vargas has outed himself. Vargas tells ABC that the reason he has come out as a lawbreaker is because the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) failed to become the law of the land. Consequently Vargas decided that political activism for a renewed effort to pass the DREAM Act has become more important than the integrity of an unbiased, just-the-facts reporter and he is now going to put his weight behind a campaign to push immigration issues. Naturally, like most people that lament the failure of the DREAM Act, Vargas leads his advocacy with a lie.
“Are we seriously going to deport 11 million people? That’s the estimated number of undocumented people in this country. We’re not seriously going to do that. We have not had a really serious conversation about this issue. We are a part of this society. And I think everyone deserves dignity.”This sort of demagoguery makes one question all of Vargas’ past work. If he can’t even deal truthfully with an issue he claims is important to him, what has he done to spin things to his political ideology in the past? The fact is that no one, not one Republican, nor any of the bills they’ve introduced would require 11 million people to be rounded up and shipped back to their place of origin. Similarly the failure of the DREAM Act would not force the many millions of these law breakers now here to be rounded up and shipped back. It is fearmongering at its worst to make the claim that Republicans want to round up all illegals. One has to wonder how often in the past Vargas has allowed his political activist’s ideas to invade his “reporting.” With his newest adventure, Jose Antonio Vargas has proven himself to be a lawbreaker, a man that participates in a cabal of lawbreakers high in California’s education sector, and a demagogue that will say anything to push his political ideology. Vargas claims to be an American — “No one can take that away from me,” he says. Well, depending on one’s point of view, he may or may not be an American, but with his actions it most certainly doesn’t seem that he’s a good American.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.