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A grand jury in Texas has indicted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly struck a migrant with his vehicle in Houston on October 10. The indictment was announced by Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, who said an arrest warrant would be issued later that day. The agent, Mario Alberto Morales, is charged with second‑degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to the indictment, Morales drove a pickup truck that struck 48‑year‑old Mexican migrant Miguel Parra Hernández as he was running across a parking lot. Surveillance footage shows Parra Hernández exiting a pickup truck and running when Morales’s vehicle collided with him, apparently crushing him under the truck. Parra Hernández is currently in ICE custody at a rehabilitation center and is recovering from serious injuries, including multiple fractures, according to ABC. Two other migrants who were traveling in the same pickup truck were also detained by ICE that day. They witnessed the incident and were later transferred to a migrant detention center on the outskirts of Houston, according to the organization FIEL and lawyer Kim Bruno, who represents Parra and another witness, Luis Enríquez. An ICE spokesperson described the indictment as a “political maneuver” and defended the agent, a claim reported by The Washington Post. This incident marks the third reported case of violence by ICE agents against migrants in Texas since July, and the second in Houston. In September, an ICE agent shot and injured Venezuelan migrant Wilber Garcés in Austin. In July, another ICE agent shot and killed Mexican migrant Lorenzo Salgado in Houston. Article source: El Nuevo Diario | Image credit: El Nuevo Diario
A grand jury in Texas has indicted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly struck a migrant with his vehicle in Houston on October 10. The indictment was announced by Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, who said an arrest warrant would be issued later that day. The agent, Mario Alberto Morales, is charged with second‑degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to the indictment, Morales drove a pickup truck that struck 48‑year‑old Mexican migrant Miguel Parra Hernández as he was running across a parking lot. Surveillance footage shows Parra Hernández exiting a pickup truck and running when Morales’s vehicle collided with him, apparently crushing him under the truck. Parra Hernández is currently in ICE custody at a rehabilitation center and is recovering from serious injuries, including multiple fractures, according to ABC. Two other migrants who were traveling in the same pickup truck were also detained by ICE that day. They witnessed the incident and were later transferred to a migrant detention center on the outskirts of Houston, according to the organization FIEL and lawyer Kim Bruno, who represents Parra and another witness, Luis Enríquez. An ICE spokesperson described the indictment as a “political maneuver” and defended the agent, a claim reported by The Washington Post. This incident marks the third reported case of violence by ICE agents against migrants in Texas since July, and the second in Houston. In September, an ICE agent shot and injured Venezuelan migrant Wilber Garcés in Austin. In July, another ICE agent shot and killed Mexican migrant Lorenzo Salgado in Houston.
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