Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen is a political autobiography written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Antonio Vargas. The book was published on 17 June 2019 by Dey Street Books.
The book details Vargas’ experience as an undocumented immigrant who came to the U.S from the Philippines illegally at the age of twelve. Throughout the course of his childhood and adulthood, Vargas kept his legal status a secret and went on to have a successful career in journalism. Vargas goes on to use the book as a plea to America to reassess the true meaning of what it truly means to be a U.S resident.
The book was praised by the New York Times who stated, “Dear America is a potent rejoinder to those who tell Vargas he's supposed to 'get in line' for citizenship, as if there were a line instead of a confounding jumble of vague statues and executive orders."
