Overview
- At least six unarmed Mexican citizens have been killed in Mexico by shots fired from the U.S. side by Border Patrol agents since 2010, and families report no judicial reparations from the United States.
- Attorneys Jordee Rodríguez and Nick Shadowen say U.S. authorities have refused to render accounts, and they are urging Mexico to apply political and diplomatic pressure.
- Relatives traveled to the Mexican Senate this week seeking support and hope to elevate their plea to President Claudia Sheinbaum.
- The families have an active complaint before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights after domestic litigation failed to yield accountability.
- A 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling dismissed the Hernández Güereca civil suit, which attorneys say effectively immunized agents in transborder shootings, while SBCC counts 351 CBP-related deaths since 2010 and a GAO report found CBP lacks reliable fatality data.