California appoints illegal alien to state post

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How is someone that is here illegally able to work? Who's social security number is she and millions like her using? Just when you think the bar is low enough, along comes California.

A 33-year-old woman has become the first undocumented immigrant named to a statewide post in California.

Lizbeth Mateo, an attorney and immigrant rights activist, was appointed to an advisory committee that seeks to improve access to college for low-income California students, according to the office of state senate president pro tem Kevin de Leon.

Mateo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, and was brought to Los Angeles by her parents at age 14. She didn’t learn English until high school

She said she hoped to do the same on the new committee, before indicating in a hashtag that she was “undocumented and unafraid.”
Despite the last sentiment, Mateo may still encounter resistance in her new role: Her tweets announcing her appointment were met with dozens of replies, some derogatory, from critics who told her she should be deported.

In 2015, Mateo applied for legal status under the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, better known as DACA, but has twice been denied because she briefly traveled to Mexico in 2013 as part of the “Bring Them Home” campaign to see how border agents would react when they tried to reenter the United States.
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