Mathew Miranda writes in today’s Sacramento Bee about then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’s efforts on behalf of Sergio Garcia, an undocumented law school graduate and bar exam passer whom the Supreme Court admitted to the bar a decade ago.

Before the Supreme Court’s decision (In re Garcia (2014) 58 Cal.4th 440), it wasn’t clear that an undocumented person could be granted a law license.

“To Garcia’s surprise, Harris came out in support. She went on to submit a written brief backing his legal case and even provided a lawyer from her office to argue for him in front of the state Supreme Court. ‘To know that the “top cop” in California did not hate me for being undocumented, and was supporting me and wanting me to achieve my dream,’ Garcia, 47, said. ‘That was huge.’ ”

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