Samantha Weber Alarcón, a Laguna Vista resident, was driving with her son to a movie theater when ICE agents chasing a crew of roofers nearly collided with her car on Mesquite Drive, forcing her into a ditch. She witnessed an agent point a gun at a young man in the back of a Ford Escape before handcuffing him; a responding Laguna Vista police sergeant said he could not intervene beyond reporting the agents to their supervisors. The man, a U.S. citizen in his mid-twenties, was released after agents realized their mistake; ICE disputed Weber Alarcón's account, denying a pursuit and describing the vehicle as "abandoned," while the man said the alleged weapon was a shingle cutter in his tool bag. The incident has prompted widespread Facebook posts from residents reporting similar ICE stops of construction and lawn-care workers in the area, with Weber Alarcón's account shared thousands of times.