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“You Might Get Hit by a Car”: On Secret Tape, #FBI Threatens American Muslim Refusing to be Informant
▻http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/2/you_might_get_hit_by_a

New details have emerged about the FBI’s efforts to turn Muslim Americans living abroad into government informants. An exposé in Mother Jones magazine chronicles the story of an American named named Naji Mansour who was living in Kenya. After he refused to become an informant, he saw his life, and his family’s life, turned upside down. He was detained, repeatedly interrogated and ultimately forced into exile in Sudan, unable to see his children for years. Mansour began recording his conversations with the FBI. During one call, an agent informs Mansour that he might get “hit by a car.” Mansour’s story is the focus of a new piece in Mother Jones titled “This American Refused to Become an FBI Informant. Then the Government Made His Family’s Life Hell.” We speak with Naji Mansour in Sudan and Nick Baumann, who investigated the story for Mother Jones.

▻http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/sudan-fbi-informant-naji-mansour-terrorism

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Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas on “Documented: A Film by an Undocumented American” | Democracy Now!
▻http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/2/pulitzer_winning_journalist_jose_antonio_vargas

As comprehensive immigration reform has languished in Congress, undocumented immigrants have increasingly come forward to share their stories in order to call attention to the need for a change in federal laws. One of the leading voices has been Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. In 2011, he outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in an essay published in The New York Times Magazine. He chronicles his experience in the new film, “Documented: A Film by an Undocumented American.”
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JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS: I lived the American dream, building a successful career as a journalist, but I was living a lie.

I’m going to tell you something that I haven’t told a lot of people. I’m actually an undocumented immigrant.

Immigration is stories. So here’s my story. My grandparents legally immigrated from the Philippines in the mid-1980s. My grandfather decided that he was going to get his grandson to come to America. One morning, my suitcase was packed. I was 12. It’s been 18 years since I’ve seen my mother. So, I’m launching a whole campaign about what it means to be an American and the fact that I am an American. There are 11 million undocumented people in this country.

In 2010, undocumented people paid $11.2 billion in state and local taxes.