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The US supreme court has refused to open the door for foreign nationals to pursue civil rights cases in American courts, declining to revive a lawsuit by a slain unarmed 15-year-old Mexican boy's family against the US border agent who shot him in the face from across the border in Texas. The court's conservatives voted 5-4 to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuit against the agent, Jesús Mesa, who shot 15-year-old Sergio Adrián Hernández Guereca in the face in the 2010 incident.
Supreme court blocks Mexican family's legal bid over teen killed by border agent | US news | The Guardian
Sergio Adrián Hernández Guereca receiving first aid on the Mexican side of the border
There is no recourse for the family of a murdered child when shot from the United States by a rogue border patrol agent. It has to be wondered whether a similar judgement would be made were a an unarmed Canadian boy to be shot dead from across the border with Canada by an American patrol officer.
Supreme court blocks Mexican family's legal bid over teen killed by border agent | US news | The Guardian
Sergio Adrián Hernández Guereca receiving first aid on the Mexican side of the border
There is no recourse for the family of a murdered child when shot from the United States by a rogue border patrol agent. It has to be wondered whether a similar judgement would be made were a an unarmed Canadian boy to be shot dead from across the border with Canada by an American patrol officer.
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