Jacelynn Guzman, a U.S. citizen, was walking back to her Louisiana home from a trip to the corner store when a truck pulled up beside her and two masked federal agents stepped out and approached her, according to security footage obtained by The Associated Press.

The 23-year-old Guzman began running away as a second vehicle arrived and the agents pursued her down the sidewalk until she reached her family's home in Marrero, a city facing New Orleans from across the Mississippi River. Guzman's mother had lived there her entire life.

“We’re legal, we are from here, born and raised,” Guzman shouted back at the agents. “Don’t chase me, that is disgusting.”

Several hundred agents under Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino have converged on Southeast Louisiana this week as part of an immigration enforcement operation seeking to arrest 5,000 people. While the Department of Homeland Security has stated the operation is targeting violent offenders, many Hispanic residents have said they feel their community is at risk of being abused or detained by agents regardless of their legal status.

Guzman's step-father Juan Anglin heard her screaming outside and went out to confront the agents. He told the AP she ran from them because she was a young woman surrounded by aggressive masked men.

“I thought she was going to be kidnapped, honestly,” Anglin said. “I thought somebody was going to hurt her or something.”

In response to the incident at Guzman's home, the Department of Homeland Security stated that Border Patrol had been searching for a “criminal illegal alien previously charged with felony theft and convicted of illegal possession of stolen property.”

DHS said that the agents “encountered a female matching the description of the target” and that agents “identified themselves" and left when they realized Guzman was not who they were seeking. While DHS described the incident as taking place on Thursday, it occurred on Wednesday afternoon according to Guzman's family and time-stamped security footage from their home reviewed by The AP.

Anglin disputes the government's narrative and says she was stopped solely because of her appearance.

“Just because you look brown, you look Hispanic, you're going to get stopped,” Anglin said. “Because now it doesn’t matter you have papers, you speak English or you are a citizen, it’s not enough."

“We're not criminals,” he added. “Criminals don't wake up at six o'clock in the morning to do work. People doing roofing, people cutting grass, people working in your city."