Last updated on:
3/21/2018 |
Author: ProCon.org
Juan Vargas, MA, JD Biography
- Title:
- California State Representative
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should the Government Allow Immigrants Who Are Here Illegally to Become US Citizens?"
- Reasoning:
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“I’m not in favor of second class status. We have to continue to fight for a pathway to citizenship.”
Adriana Maestas, “Freshman CA Congressman Juan Vargas: ‘I Didn’t Realize the Partisan Divide Would Be So Deep,'” nbclatino.com, July 29, 2013
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- California State Representative, Jan. 3, 2013-present
- California State Senator, Dec. 6, 2010-Jan. 2, 2013
- Former Vice President of External Affairs, Safeco Insurance
- Former Vice President of Corporate Legal, Liberty Mutual Group
- Assemblyman, California State Assembly, Dec. 4, 2000-Dec. 4, 2006
- Councilman, San Diego City Council, Feb. 22, 1993-Dec. 4, 2000
- Novice, Jesuit Novitiate, Santa Barbara, CA
- Education:
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- JD, Harvard University, 1991
- MA, Humanities, Fordham University, 1987
- BA, magna cum laude, Political Science, University of San Diego, 1983
- Other:
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- Twitter handle: @RepJuanVargas
- Lives in San Diego with his wife, Adrienne, an Associate Vice President of San Diego State University, and their two daughters, Rosa and Helena
- His father immigrated to the United States in the late 1940s as part of the Bracero program
- Hosted a Kosovar refugee family for almost two years during the US invasion of Kosova
- Was a Harvard University classmate of Barack Obama
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