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TV writer, producer, author and CEO of the Latino Film Institute, Rafael Agustín, has written for the CW’s Jane the Virgin and released his first-ever book in July 2022, Illegally Yours: A Memoir.
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It wasn’t until he was in high school, applying for his driver’s license and to colleges, that Rafael Agustín found out he was an undocumented immigrant. Moving from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Walnut, California, at the age of seven, the now 42-year-old award-winning television writer (Jane the Virgin) and CEO of the Latino Film Institute (LFI) knew he and his parents were immigrants but was unaware of the illegality of his own status.
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