ICE house

About a mile away from a high school in Camarillo, in an industrial park surrounded by businesses, is an unmarked yellow building.

A four-lane road separates it from a large neighborhood of upscale family homes, where children ride scooters and dogs walk the lawns.

The buildings arches, roofing and ironwork invoke Spanish Mediterranean architecture; a water fountain gurgles to the right of the front door.

Its quiet outside, and crops grow in fields to the south and east.

The building is home to one of 14 Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in the state. Inside, doors require key cards, some employees wear guns and cells are monitored by security cameras.

Like a similar facility planned in Santa Maria, the Camarillo ICE office acts as a transfer station for convicted, undocumented immigrants. It consolidated two separate offices that, since the 1990s, were located in a business area on the west side of the city.

Unlike the Santa Maria facility, however, it opened on Cortez Circle in February with no controversy.

ICE Assistant Field Office Director Raymond Kovacic said most of the office work takes place on the second floor of the two-story building a maze of cubicles and break rooms that sport NFL logos showing employees loyalties and white boards listing needed office supplies. The first floor is mostly holding cells.

Its a center for processing merely (bringing people) in and out, said Bob Naranjo, also an assistant field office director.

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