MANILA, Philippines - While most netizens were moved by the story of Filipino Pulitzer Prize winner and illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas, they stressed that no one is above the law and turned to the Internet to ask him to return to his home country.Comments continue to pour in on The New York Times website, where Vargas' essay on his life as an illegal immigrant was published last week.In the article, he revealed that he has been using fake IDs and documents for almost 2 decades so he can live, study, and work as a journalist in the United States.Vargas performed well in school and at work, and shared a Pulitzer Prize for the Washington Post's coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.He also founded Define American, which aims to "bring new voices into the immigration conversation".A number of netizens expressed sympathy and support to Vargas, and hoped that he and other "deserving" illegal immigrants "will be granted the citizenship and peace they are seeking.""Jose Antonio Vargas is certainly a good citizen and somebody with guts. Well-written article but the bottom line is the author is an illegal immigrant. His parents broke the laws. David Leopold, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA), earlier said it ishighly unlikely that Vargas will be deported."
