Jose Antonio Vargas Told To Keep Quiet By Mom In Philippines

MANILA, Philippines ? The Filipino mother of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who came out as an illegal immigrant in the U.S. says she tried to persuade him to keep quiet.

Jose Antonio Vargas' mother, Emelie Salinas, sent him from the Philippines to live with his grandparents in California when he was 12 and has not seen him in person since.

She told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from her residence near Manila on Thursday evening that she worried about the consequences of his revelations to the U.S. media and tried to stop him.

She says, "He was already there, he already achieved his dream, what else did he want?"

At the end, she says she supported him because it was his choice.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/23/jose-antonio-vargas-illegal-immigrant-mother-philippines_n_883090.html

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