Guatemalan migrant alleges officers mockingly said 'Happy Mother's Day' before they separated her from 8-year-old daughter

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• An emergency lawsuit to reunite a Guatemalan woman with her 8-year-old daughter was filed by the ACLU and two law firms.
• The two were separated after they illegally crossed the US-Mexico border to seek asylum in the US.
• The mother alleged that before she and her daughter were sent to different detention facilities, one of the guards mocked her circumstance.
• "In an act of unmitigated cruelty, when Ms. Gonzalez-Garcia was told that her daughter would be taken from her, an officer said, 'Happy Mother's Day,'" the lawsuit alleges.

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLU) and two Boston law firms filed an emergency lawsuit to reunite a Guatemalan woman with her 8-year-old daughter, after they were forcibly separated when they illegally crossed the US-Mexico border.

In the court filing, 31-year-old Angelica Rebeca Gonzalez-Garcia claims that before she and her daughter were sent to different detention facilities, one of the guards mocked her circumstance.

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