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Washington (AFP) – Agustin Leon-Saenz assumes his ticket to Harvard University had something to do with the race-conscious admissions policy known as affirmative action. But make no mistake, Leon-Saenz said, “I deserve to be here.” The 19-year-old, a second-year science and engineering student at the Ivy League school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was born in Ecuador. He was seven years old when his family came to the United States and he did not speak a word of English. Ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on Monday that could outlaw affirmative action as discriminatory, Leon-Saenz and other Harva…