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Desert Sun
May 10, 2026

She grew up in Palm Springs from age 4. Then ICE arrested her
By Jennifer Cortez


Roughly 60,311 people were being held in ICE detention as of April 4, according to the most recent data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan research center at Syracuse University. Of those detainees, about 70.8% had no criminal convictions, either none at all or only minor offenses like traffic violations. In December 2025, the month Araya-Davis was detained, ICE detained 42,116 people, the highest monthly total that year and the most since May 2019.


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