A review by readtotheend
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I feel like this memoir gave such an honest and inside look at what it is like for undocumented individuals who do not qualify for DACA but are in the same situation. Children who came to this country as a child, too old to be a DACA recipient and unable to apply for citizenship. As Vargas mentions in the book, Asians are a huge number of people in this situation and as someone who did immigrate here in the 1970s as a 1 year old through sponsorship of a family member, I can only imagine how overwhelming it would be to feel like you can be kicked out at any time from the only place you've known as home because of something completely outside of your control. I learned a lot from this book and I think a lot of Americans will as well.