Immigrant ICE was seeking when its agent hit a man with its SUV has been dead since 2017, family says

The person ICE said it was trying to detain when one of its agents struck a man with an SUV in Houston last weekend has been dead since 2017, according to an immigration advocacy group and an attorney who spoke with the deceased immigrant’s family.

ICE said that its agents were “conducting a targeted enforcement operation” to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes when an agent hit and seriously injured Miguel Parra Hernández, 48, on Oct. 10.

In a previous statement, ICE said it attempted a vehicle stop and the two people in the car ran away. The officers tried to apprehend the fleeing men, and “Miguel Parra Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck,” the ICE spokesperson stated.

The collision left Parra with hip, leg and ankle injuries, including a broken leg, according to his family and representatives.

Afterward, ICE issued a statement that included a headshot of the man it identified as Mendoza-Cervantes with the word “wanted” in capital white letters.

But the daughter of the man identified by ICE as Mendoza-Cervantes told an immigrant civil rights group that the photo was actually of her deceased father.

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