OAKLAND — With its cathedral ceiling and a tall, red chimney, the house on 79th Avenue hardly stands out in a quiet, working-class East Oakland neighborhood where residents tend to look out for one another.

Each morning, four of the young men who lived there would shuffle into an SUV parked out front, headed to their jobs at an East Bay fast-food joint. One of them had recently been promoted to kitchen manager, his mother said.

The neighbors never saw any cause for concern. So they were left shaken when, late on the afternoon on Aug. 12, seven people were taken from the house on 79th Avenue near Hillside Street, swept into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vans and driven away to be held in detention facilities around the country.

The 10 people who lived there, a mix of extended

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