Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who "outed" himself as an illegal immigrant who has lived and worked in America since his parents brought him here from The Philippines when he was twelve, responded to accusations that his detention by border patrol agents at the US/Mexican border earlier this week was a "stunt."

In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN Wednesday night Vargas claimed he was shocked to learn that his Philippine passport would not be honored at the Mexican border. Vargas called the 45 mile area north of the border in Texas a "military zone."

What's happening down there with the child migrant crisis, that's what I came down there for. I didn't know that the 45 mile radius is basically a military zone. That I didn't know.

When Anderson Cooper challenged Vargas with the charge made by many that he injected himself into the border crisis as a stunt to push his amnesty agenda and to increase his personal visibility, Vargas responded:

But here is what I find really really interesting: What is the stunt? I had to get out of South Texas. I had to either get out by car or plane. If I had gotten out by car, Anderson, if you had driven me by car you would have gotten apprehended for smuggling me out. So it was either I get out by car or I get out by plane. Now that's not a stunt, that's the reality of what it's like being undocumented in this country.

So in explaining that his detention in was "not a stunt," Vargas refers to himself with "I" or "me" eight times in a 25 second passage and then relates his detention to the broader picture of "what it's like being undocumented in this country."

Yeah, that's no stunt, it's as sincere as a cable reality show.