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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am kind of incredulous people leaped to Jorge being undocumented as his secret. I don't want to drop the racist card but come on. He speaks with an American accent and the show does vet these people, at least a little.[/quote]

Keep the racist card in your pocket.  Not to take this completely off topic, but people like to think that undocumented immigrants are all dirty men hanging out in the parking lot of Home Depot, or sex workers scumming up the community.  Many, many of the 11 million were brought here as very young children under legitimate visas and overstayed, thus becoming undocumented.  Others came as children and never knew they were in the country illegally until they had to apply for college.  Many of these people speak with American accents and appear as "American" as you or anyone else.  They ARE Americans, and have little or no connection to their country of citizenship.  Some may not even speak the language anymore.

Check out these stories:
Juan Gomez, came to the US at age 2 on a toruist visa and never left, was admitted to Georgetown, and was described as "more American" than any of his high school classmates: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021600937.html

Jose Antonio Vargas, journalist and filmmaker, came to the US to live with grandparents when he was 12, and did not know he was unocumented until he went to get a driver's license and was told his documents were fakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Antonio_Vargas

However, Jorge did travel to other countries to meet with Anfisa, so he has to have a valid US passport, and it seems unlikely that TLC would delve into the immigration debate.  They have their hands full with child molesters on their payroll.
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I don't know why you assumed that my thinking people jumping to that conclusion means that I think all undocumented immigrants are a stereotype. I do think that people think that all undocumented immigrants are Hispanic (another misconception) which is why I think it DOES actually imply a little bit of racial bias to immediately leap to that being his secret despite numerous obvious contextual clues that he is a citizen (although I suppose we don't know if he is a natural born citizen or not). [/quote]

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