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Mexican woman shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: ‘I am looking for justice’
Marisol García Alcántara was shot shortly after arriving in the US, while riding in an SUV in Arizona

15 December 2021



Attorneys for a Mexican woman who was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent and survived have filed a claim against the US government as a precursor to a federal lawsuit. The claim filed with the Border Patrol by Marisol García Alcántara, who had arrived in the US shortly before the shooting over the summer in Nogales, Arizona, is necessary before a civil action is filed next year with the US district court in Tucson. “I want to know why, why did they do that and why me?” García, 37, said in an interview from her family home ...



 
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