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Longtime Fresno resident detained by ICE while driving to work, daughter says

Oct 7, 2026·Location: Fresno, CA

Country of origin: Mexico

Longtime Fresno resident detained by ICE while driving to work, daughter says
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Luis Arreguin, 54, a Fresno man who has lived in the U.S. since he was five years old, was detained by ICE agents around 5 a.m. on Oct. 1 while driving to work on Manning Avenue, according to his daughter, Elaina Salazar. Salazar says agents acted without a warrant based on a tip, and told her father they knew he hadn't done anything wrong. She describes him as loving and hardworking, and says he was in the process of obtaining citizenship before his detention. Arreguin has high blood pressure that has been elevated for days and is being held at an ICE facility in McFarland, where Salazar visits him three times a week. His detention came amid a surge of roughly two dozen ICE arrests reported across Fresno and Madera counties that advocates have called an "election surge."

Timeline

Oct 7, 2026—Daughter reports father remains detained, describes elevated blood pressure and visits to McFarland facility
Oct 1, 2026—Luis Arreguin detained by ICE agents while driving to work on Manning Avenue in Fresno
Oct 1, 2026—Transferred to ICE detention facility in McFarland
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