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Jazmin Padron arrived in Texas three years ago, a bright-eyed Mexican teenager with little English and no thought of attending college
No mention of her legal status, but it doesn't matter since everyone in the world is now an American who just hasn't gotten here yet and is entitled to full benefits at taxpayer expense.

"to university officials, who openly regret the death of affirmative action, the 10 percent law is a way to achieve its goals without adopting the means
In other words, it is affirmative action by another name. It's another example of the sham of democracy and the rule of law in the face of the technology of mass-communication. The left controls the media, the media controls (or at least dominates) politics and society. The left can never really lose because they have the power of the media, and the media is the locus of political power in the modern age. When faced with popular opposition and legal barriers to one of their cherished programs they simply rename it, if necessary back off a little bit, and bide their time until they can reinstitute and expand it. The opposition party dare not seriously oppose them because they must abide by the rules of society set up by the Mullahs in the Church of Television, and also cannot afford to antagonize the very instituions that they depend on for their livelihood, and from which they pray for benign neglect. So if the courts or the people throw a rare monkey wrench in the Machine, the Republicans are glad to get together with their Democratic colleagues, cook up a P.R. scheme that gives Massa most of what he wants, pretend it's not a lie and thank God they are not being assailed as racists.