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May 15, 2020

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