Overview

• ICE agents arrested Arpineh Masihi at her Diamond Bar home on June 30 and initially held her in a freezing Los Angeles facility where detainees survived on limited food and water
• She was moved after three days to Adelanto, a private Mojave Desert detention center known for harsh, prison-like conditions, where she now receives three meals a day, a shower and a bed
• From Adelanto, Masihi told the BBC she will support President Trump “until the day I die,” praising his mass deportation program even as it led to her arrest
• Her husband, Arthur Sahakyan, publicly holds President Biden’s immigration policies responsible for her detention and has launched a campaign to win her release
• The family argues her deep California roots, ownership of a business and property, and four U.S.-citizen children make her nondeportable