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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Grand Junction Regional Airport on October 18, 2016 in Grand Junction Colorado Getty Images

This upcoming election has sparked a lot of chatter about racial tensions within the United States. A Hispanic woman has taken the step of filing a civil rights lawsuit against her company for harassment allegations stemming from the upcoming election.

According to FOX News Latino, Hispanic woman Alexandra Avila says her white co-workers at an Iowa claims office used images of Donald Trump to racially harass her for months after they learned she was angered by his description of Mexican immigrants as rapists.

The site reports that Alexandra Avila's co-workers at Sedgwick Claims Management Services began calling her an "illegal immigrant" even though she's a natural-born U.S. citizen, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in Iowa district court. The suit claims her former co-workers placed a picture of an angry-looking Trump as Avila's computer's screensaver, signed her up to volunteer for his campaign and sent her racist memes, including one that read: "How's Mr. Donald Trump going to deport all these illegals? Juan by Juan."

Avila, a 32-year-old mother of one who worked at Sedgwick for three years, claims she faced similar heckling at her white-collar workplace in Coralville, Iowa, from the beginning of Trump's campaign in June 2015 until after she was fired five months later.

Avila told colleagues she was upset with Trump's 2015 campaign launch when he said of Mexican immigrants: "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."

Soon after, the lawsuit claims, colleagues removed the photo Avila had of her young daughter as her computer screensaver and replaced it with a picture of Trump yelling and pointing his finger. When Avila removed the photo, they kept switching it back to Trump, the suit alleges.

An email arrived from the Trump campaign last fall thanking her for the support and asking how she wanted to help, according to the suit. Avila also claims her colleagues sent offensive memes, including one showing a brown-skinned man that read: "Found Jesus — he stabbed me twice."

It was further reported that when her department was voting on a potluck menu, one co-worker said Avila was ineligible because she was an "illegal immigrant," drawing laughter from Avila's boss, the lawsuit claims. Avila contends that after she complained about the harassment, the company accused her of falsifying timecards by claiming she worked minutes more time than she actually did.

Avila was fired last November and escorted out, with Sedgwick saying it would send her personal property later. When her belongings arrived from FedEx, Avila says they contained a handwritten note that called her "La Trumpa" and added: "Illegal immigrants can't vote or work. Good luck finding a job."

The lawsuit, which names Sedgwick and two supervisors, alleges Avila suffered discrimination based on national origin and that the company failed to pay wages she earned.

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