A Texas district attorney is weighing felony charges against a federal immigration agent who struck an illegal alien with his vehicle during a Saturday morning operation in Houston — and the case reveals exactly how progressive prosecutors turn the machinery of the law against the very officers trying to enforce it.

Harris County DA Sean Teare, a Democrat, said surveillance video shows the ICE agent intentionally veering his unmarked SUV into Miguel Parra-Hernandez as he fled across a parking lot, breaking his leg in multiple places. Teare told NBC News the footage could support a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which carries up to 20 years in prison. "It's pretty obvious that this was an intentional striking and running over of the person by the vehicle," Teare said.

Obvious to whom? ICE tells a different story. Agency spokesperson Tim Oberle said Parra-Hernandez "ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck" — a starkly different account than a prosecutor already talking to cameras about prison time. The Guardian framed the incident as an ICE agent running down an innocent man; WTOP buried ICE's counter-narrative well down in its report.

Here's what the outlets agree on: Parra-Hernandez, 48, was not the target of the operation. ICE concedes that. The actual target was Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, an illegal alien with multiple prior arrests and a final order of removal signed by a judge. ICE also confirms Parra-Hernandez was in the country illegally. He has been here for 34 years, according to Cesar Espinosa of the advocacy group FIEL Houston, who declined to share Parra-Hernandez's legal status.

The case marks the second time Teare's office has gone after federal immigration officers. Local prosecutors are also investigating a July fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Houston — a pattern that looks less like impartial justice and more like a systematic campaign against federal enforcement.

Teare claims ICE is stonewalling his investigation, denying access to the vehicle's data recorder. He told NBC the agent drove the SUV away from the scene before sheriff's deputies arrived — "In my 20-year career, I've never heard of anything like that," he said. Teare also raised the alarm that two other detainees from a separate operation were in the back of the ICE vehicle during the pursuit, calling it a danger to everyone present.

Those are legitimate questions about tactics. But a Democrat DA racing toward felony charges against a federal agent — while the illegal alien at the center of it gets portrayed as the primary victim — fits a familiar template: progressive prosecutors who treat immigration enforcement itself as the crime.

Parra-Hernandez remains under ICE supervision at a Houston hospital, awaiting further surgeries. His lawyer, Kim Bruno, and Espinosa held a press conference Monday. Meanwhile, the agent who was trying to apprehend a previously deported criminal with an active removal order faces potential ruin.

The open question: who enforces the law when the enforcers are the ones being prosecuted?