U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hit the East End this week in a series of raids that immigrant advocates said were creating havoc and fear in the community amid a nationwide crackdown.

On Wednesday in Westhampton, Edgar Tezen, 35, an immigrant from Guatemala, was partially pinned under the tire of a car during his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents near a 7-Eleven in Westhampton and was later hospitalized, said Melinda Rubin, a Riverhead-based immigration attorney who is representing him.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday disputed Rubin's version, calling it a "smear." The agency contended Tezen was never run over and, while agents were putting him in a car, "his legs gave out and he fell to the ground and begin complaining of chest

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