ICE Injures 48-Year-Old Houston Worker While Chasing Man Family Says Died in 2017
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 15
ICE Injures 48-Year-Old Houston Worker While Chasing Man Family Says Died in 2017
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 15
Summary
Surveillance video shows an ICE agent hitting 48-year-old construction worker Miguel Parra Hernandez with an SUV in Houston, leaving him with shattered leg, hip and ankle injuries as he ran from a weekend stop.
ICE said agents were tracking Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, an undocumented Mexican man facing deportation and multiple criminal charges, and that Parra Hernandez drove him before both men fled on foot.
A photo ICE released that day as its wanted target was identified by Jamie Jimenez of Dallas as her father, who she said died in 2017 after falling from a cliff while fleeing immigration agents near the border.
The family said it was horrified to see the dead man portrayed as a current fugitive on a Department of Homeland Security wanted bulletin aired by local news, raising new questions about the operation.