ICE agent hits man with vehicle during chase in Texas, officials say | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent driving a vehicle struck a man Saturday while trying to pursue him and someone else in the Houston area, authorities said.

The federal agency had attempted to stop and arrest José Mendoza-Cervantes in northwest Harris County, Texas, when he and the victim, Miguel Parra-Hernandez, got out of the vehicle, officials said.

Surveillance footage showed the officer chasing Parra-Hernandez and then hitting him with his car. Parra-Hernandez suffered a broken leg and was taken to the hospital, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said.

In a statement, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, said the agency attempted to arrest Mendoza-Cervantes after a judge issued a final order for him to be removed from the United States.

Mendoza-Cervantes was arrested four times for driving under the influence and arrested for illegal possession of a firearm, the DHS statement added. He was still at large Saturday morning.

DHS did not respond to questions from the Guardian asking for the name of the officer who struck Parra-Hernandez and whether he was equipped with a body-worn camera, as required by ICE policy.

Parra-Hernandez’s hospitalization came as ICE has been criticized throughout Donald Trump’s second presidency for the agency’s aggressive arrest, detention and deportation tactics.

More than 30 people died in 2026 during interactions with immigration officials, the Guardian reported at the end of September.

In New York on Thursday, an ICE agent shot and killed a man who was in his vehicle with a five-year-old child, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.

And on Friday morning, a 72-year-old man shot an off-duty ICE official who was “drunk and agitated” and was accused of attacking the man and his daughter on their property in Fresno, California.

Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones alluded to such cases in a statement released Saturday, saying, “Under the Trump administration, ICE has brought chaos and destruction to communities across our country. »

Briones described herself as “horrified” after the Parra-Hernandez case Saturday and called on ICE to release any relevant video to the sheriff’s office.

DHS did not immediately respond to the Guardian when asked for comment on Sunday.