A federal immigration agent who drove into and seriously injured a Texas man on 10 October after a botched traffic stop was indicted Friday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Mario Alberto Morales, 33, an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), deliberately veered his SUV into Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, causing multiple leg fractures and a hip injury, journalists at a news conference in Houstonwere told.

In announcing the charge against Morales, Harris county district attorney Sean Teare questioned the training that Morales, a recent appointment by ICE, had received – and denounced the activities and conduct of the agency in support of the frequently violent immigration crackdown during Donald Trump’s second presidency.

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    19 hours ago

    Brown ice won’t be protected like the white ones.

    Surely the Hispanic ice didn’t think that they would be protected from accountability?

    Surely.

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      17 hours ago

      If he’s convicted and jailed (and that’s an if the size of the universe), trump will pardon him.

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        10 hours ago

        Trump can’t pardon state convictions.

        In announcing the charge against Morales, Harris county district attorney Sean Teare questioned the training that Morales, a recent appointment by ICE, had received – and denounced the activities and conduct of the agency in support of the frequently violent immigration crackdown during Donald Trump’s second presidency.

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            10 hours ago

            He can not care as hard as he wants, it still doesn’t get this asshole out of state prison (in the extremely unlikely case that he ends up there).