The ICE agent who allegedly ran over an immigrant in Houston Saturday has been put on administrative leave while the incident is investigated, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News.
\n\nAs NBC News previously reported, a senior DHS official said that multiple ICE officers on the scene at the time were wearing body cameras and ICE is reviewing video of the scene as part of an internal investigation.
\n\nThe DHS official said no decision has been made yet about sharing the footage with the public or with the Harris County district attorney’s office, which is conducting its own investigation of the case.
\n\nHarris County District Attorney Sean Teare told NBC News on Thursday that he’s interviewed a key witness who was handcuffed in the back of the ICE vehicle when it hit Miguel Parra Hernández. The witness “had a front row seat to the incident and everything that led up to it,” Teare said. “We did get a significant amount of relevant details from him.”
\n\nThe witness was interviewed at Port Isabel Processing Center, about 35 to 40 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border in south Texas, according to the district attorney’s office. The Port Isabel facility is…
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