DHS Says Parra Hernandez Was Not the Intended Target of the Houston Operation; He Is Still Hospitalized and Not Yet Processed by ICE

The Houston Fox station’s Wednesday report says DHS confirmed that an ICE operation targeted Jose Mendoza Cervantes rather than Miguel Parra Hernandez, who was injured in the resulting vehicle crash. That is DHS conceding the injured man was not the intended target. The station gives no verbatim DHS text, so the wording is the station’s paraphrase.

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