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Family of Guatemalan Woman Killed by Border Patrol Agent Files Civil Rights Lawsuit

HeadlineMay 15, 2020

The family of a 20-year-old Indigenous woman from Guatemala who was shot dead in 2018 by a Border Patrol agent has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the agent and the U.S. government. Claudia Gómez González was crossing through the Texas-Mexico border with a group of people when border agents confronted her, prompting one of them to shoot her in the head.

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