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• May 18, 2010 -- San Antonio teacher singles out “Mexican” student
  The San Antonio Express-News reports an unidentified San Antonio high school teacher singled out a student as "Mexican" during a class discussion on illegal immigration.  Augustine Ortiz, who was wearing a Mexican soccer jersey that day, says that his English teacher had him sit in the front row of the classroom and used him as an example as she proceeded into a diatribe about "Mexicans with their attitudes are the racist ones."  The teacher went on like a buffoon claiming that Mexicans "expect ...
• April 30, 2010 -- Texas textbooks
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