Supreme Court unanimously rules trans Guatemalan woman will have new shot to fight deportation

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Leon Santos-Zacaria, who now goes by Estrella, said she fled Guatemala to seek asylum in the US after she was raped and received death threats due to her gender identity.

who claimed that she would face persecution if she returned to her native country of Guatemala in her ongoing fight against deportation.

A US immigration judge previously found that she did not make a strong enough case that she would face persecution if deported to her home country. Estrella Santos-Zacaria argued that she would face persecution if she was deported back to Guatemala.The Justice Department argued against Santos-Zacaria, claiming that she had testified on three separate prior occasions that she would voluntarily go back to Guatemala — undermining her claims of possible persecution, according to Fox News.

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