{"id":463041,"date":"2026-10-11T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463041\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:54:08","slug":"ice-agent-strikes-man-with-vehicle-during-pursuit-in-texas-officials-say-ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463041\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agent strikes man with vehicle during pursuit in Texas, officials say | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/a>) agent driving a vehicle struck a man on Saturday while trying to pursue him and someone else in the Houston area, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

The federal agency had been trying to pull over and arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes in north-west Harris county, Texas<\/a>, when he and the victim, Miguel Parra-Hernandez, exited the vehicle, officials said.<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage showed the officer chase Parra-Hernandez and then hit him with his car. Parra-Hernandez suffered a broken leg and was taken to a hospital, the Harris county sheriff\u2019s office<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees ICE said the agency had been trying to arrest Mendoza-Cervantes after a judge had issued him a final order of removal from the United States, as USA Today<\/a> reported. Mendoza-Cervantes had been arrested four times for driving under the influence and arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm, the DHS statement added.<\/p>\n

Mendoza-Cervantes remained at large as of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Parra-Hernandez\u2019s hospitalization came with ICE facing criticism<\/a> throughout Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency for the agency\u2019s aggressive arrest, detention and deportation tactics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than 30 people have died in 2026 during interactions with immigration officials, the Guardian reported in late September.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, in New York City, an ICE agent shot a man<\/a> who was in his vehicle with a five-year-old child, mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And on Friday morning, a 72-year-old man shot an off-duty ICE official who was \u201cintoxicated and agitated<\/a>\u201d and was accused of attacking the man and his daughter on their property in Fresno, California.<\/p>\n

The Harris county precinct 4 commissioner Lesley Briones alluded to such cases in a statement<\/a> on Saturday, saying: \u201cUnder the Trump administration, ICE has brought chaos and destruction to communities across our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Briones described herself as \u201chorrified\u201d after Parra-Hernandez\u2019s case on Saturday and called for ICE to release any relevant video to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

DHS did not immediately respond to the Guardian when asked for comment on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent driving a vehicle struck a man on Saturday while trying to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-463041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}