What is the education connection? Well, despite Mr. What I had not previously considered is how extraordinarily difficult it is to live a life with a lie at its core. What emerges is a portrait of many things I assumed would be part of an undocumented worker’s life – hard work, fear, contributing to one’s community, and hardships associated with maintaining basic dignity. Vargas is possibly the most famous undocumented citizen in the USA and uses his Pulitzer Prize winning writing abilities to create an insightful and searing look at what being undocumented actually means. Dear America: Notes of an undocumented citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas (2018) - This book offers a poignant, plainly spoken, well-crafted, and intimate look at life as an undocumented worker in the USA.
