ICE is doing its biggest ever fugitive operation, where agents pick up people who have already been deported or are criminal aliens . Photos taken Sept. 27, 2007 in Santa Ana. More than 1,300 illegal immigrants were arrested during the operation. 530 of the arrestees were taken from the streets.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer escorts a man in Maywood who was later fingerprinted and scheduled for deportation to Guatemala. In a massive two-week operation, the agency targeted illegal immigrants held in county jails and those who had failed to abide by deportation orders.

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