A sprawling two-story San Clemente home with a Porshe Cayenne in the driveway and a Mercedes in the garage isn't exactly where many would think to find a convict suspected of living in the country illegally.
On a recent early morning, those were the sorts of cases that took the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fugitive Operations Team in Orange County to the back room of a Lake Forest Italian restaurant, a well-heeled community in Tustin and a run-down McMansion in the heart of Santa Ana.
"We follow up on leads and go where the leads take us," said Robert Naranjo, assistant field officer director for the agency's Los Angeles Office of Detention and Removal Operations, as he coursed through the dark streets of south county in a Dodge Durango. "People come from all social strata. We've been to homes before where they have security cameras."
The twilight operation offered a glimpse into the team's day-to-day immigration enforcement actions in the wake of the President Obama's revamped focus on going after the "worst of the worst" in the country illegally.
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