Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant, was detained today at a Texas airport, his spokesman said.
Vargas was held at a detention center at the McAllen airport after he tried to fly out of the city on the U.S.-Mexico border, spokesman Ryan Eller said. Information on why he was detained wasn't immediately available.
Vargas wrote and directed "Documented," a film about the U.S. immigration debate and his life story that CNN aired on June 29.
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