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Azusa Pacific University Azusa, CA 2011 to 2013 Masters of Social Work in Clinical ConcentrationUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 2012 to 2012 Social WorkCalifornia State University San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA 2009 to 2011 BA in Social WorkCrafton Hills College Yucaipa, CA 2007 to 2009 AA in Liberal Arts
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Federal Court: Border Agent Doesn't Have Immunity In Teen's Killing At Mexican Border
In her lawsuit, Araceli Rodriguez says U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz violated her son's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure, as well as his Fifth Amendment rights a claim that essentially accuses Swartz of executing her son without due process.
Date: Aug 08, 2018
Category: Headlines
Source: Google
Court rules Mexican mother can sue over cross-border Border Patrol shooting
In the lawsuit filed by Araceli Rodriguez, mother of Jose Antonio Elena Rodrguez, she says her son was "peacefully walking down the Calle Internacional, a street in Nogales, Mexico," according to the opinion. She said the 16-year-old was not throwing rocks and was not engaging in any illegal behavi
Date: Aug 07, 2018
Category: Headlines
Source: Google
A barrage of rocks and then bullets: When the Border Patrol kills Mexican teens
Along with the memorial appeared graffiti demanding justice. Nearly three years passed while Jose's mother, Araceli Rodriguez, and the American Civil Liberties Union sought the right to sue Swartz in an American civil court.
Date: Dec 15, 2015
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Name of border agent who shot teen released by judge
Attorneys for Araceli Rodriguez, Elena Rodriguez's mother, filed a civil suit in July against Border Patrol agents involved in the death, alleging that one or more "John Does," as their complaint then termed the agents involved, had used "unreasonable and excessive force," violating the boy's FourthSimilarly, Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who is helping represent Araceli Rodriguez, said he could not find a single example of a law-enforcement officer's name being withheld in a court proceeding.
Date: Nov 13, 2014
Category: World
Source: Google
Mother of Slain Mexican Teen Sues US Border Patrol
lena Rodriguez was among a group of people throwing rocks at agents across the border, endangering their lives. The ACLU, which filed the lawsuit in federal court in Tucson on behalf of Araceli Rodriguez, says the shooting was another example of border agents using excessive force without consequences.
Araceli Rodriguez could not be reached Monday. In an interview with The Arizona Republic earlier this year, she said, "I'm looking for justice. I want to see the faces of my son's killers.... I don't know the names of those people; I don't know anything about them."
Date: Jul 29, 2014
Category: World
Source: Google
Wall of silence surrounds killings by border agents
In Nogales, Araceli Rodriguez's job takes her downtown, near the border fence, every morning. Each time she sees a Border Patrol car or an agent on the U.S. side, she says, she asks herself if that might be the one who killed her son.
The Department of Justice has declined to comment on its investigation. But Araceli Rodriguez said she knows they have interviewed at least one of two Mexican witnesses who have come forward. Those witnesses' accounts along with a transcript of a Border Patrol agent's call to Mexican state polic