Dalton, Georgia On Monday, the local authorities in Dalton refused the traffic charges that led to the enforcement of migration and customs to the detention of a 19 -year -old university student who lived in the United States since she was four years old.
Ximena Arias Cristobal, in the country without permission, was transferred to the detention of ice earlier this month after the traffic stopped on May 5 in Dalton, where she lives with her family. Local police were killed inappropriately and driving without a license before it was seized in the Whitefield Province prison in Dalton, where it was captured by ice officers.
However, the Dalton Police Administration and the city prosecutor announced on Monday that they reviewed the shots of the dashboard from the traffic station and decided that the officer stopped the wrong car. The officials said that the car that took an inappropriate turn was similar to the truck of Arias Christopal, which was driving.
Arias Cristobal is now facing deportation and is still being held at Stewart Ice Beatine facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, according to the online agency system to track detainees. Her father, Jose Francisco Arias Tawar, is also held there. His family said Ace had arrested him last month, after the traffic stopped.
ICE did not immediately respond to requests to comment on the procedures, if any, it will take in response to the Dalton’s authorities ’decision to drop traffic violations against Arias Christopal.
In a statement before Monday’s announcement, Tricia McLeulin, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Internal Security, described Arias Christopal as an “illegal foreigner” “who admitted the United States illegally entering.” McLeulin said that the father of Arias Christopal, Arias Tawbar “,” depends on himself that he illegally in the country. ”
Federal officials have not contested that Arias Christopal and her father lack the criminal records.
“[The] “The family will be able to return to Mexico together. Tovar had a great opportunity to search for a legal way to citizenship. I chose not. We do not ignore the rule of law.”
According to her family, Arias Christopal came to the United States in 2010 and graduated from Dalton High School last year. She was not eligible for postponed work for childhood expatriates, or DACA, for the non -documented immigrant program who came to the United States as a palace because it reached the date of cutting policy in June 2007.
During a press conference on Monday, Chris Cross, the assistant police chief of Dalton, expressed his regret for his agency. But he said he could not give up how ICE is dealing with the treatment of the Cristobal issue to move forward, given the new information. He said that local officials informed her lawyer of the charges that were rejected, but did not alert the ice.
“It is a very unfortunate place we are here,” said Kross. “
Arias Christopal’s lawyers said that their client is likely to remain detained in the ice at the present time, even after the dismissal of the charges, because federal officials are holding them because they are in the United States without legal permission. They said she had a bond listening session next week.
The arrest of Arias Christopal is one of several Pros -cases One of the undocumented immigrants was arrested by ICE during the Trump administration, although lived in the country for many years and lacks criminal history.
Shortly after President Trump took office, his administration has dramatically expanded who might face detention and deportation, reflecting the rules of the Biden era, which largely restricted the icy operations to arrest serious criminals, and the threats of the last national security and expatriates in the United States illegally.
While Trump administration officials said they would give priority to the arrest of the dangerous individuals in the United States illegally, they have confirmed that no person would be protected from deportation if they lack the good immigration documents.
