Word: subclass
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...burden and that free education encouraged Mexicans to cross the border illegally. But the court held that Texas' interests were not "substantial" enough to outweigh unequal treatment. Citing "the importance of education in maintaining our basic institutions," Justice William Brennan said that Texas seemed to be promoting "a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime...