The end of Narciso’s American dream: The brutal arrest of a Mexican gardener shocks Santa Ana

The end of Narciso’s American dream: The brutal arrest of a Mexican gardener shocks Santa Ana

Narciso Barranco’s American dream ended in a nondescript shopping center in Santa Ana. The 48-year-old gardener was trimming bushes on Saturday at the Pacific Center, where there is a Home Depot — a store that has become a common target in federal operations arresting undocumented immigrants across Southern California. Barranco’s chance arrest, simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, has sparked outrage over the violence with which it was carried out. It has also cast a heavy shadow of fear over Latino communities in the region.

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