Father of Ximena Arias-Cristobal Released From ICE Detention

Father of Ximena Arias-Cristobal released from ICE detention

Arias says he was pulled over on Highway 41 in Tunnel Hill for driving 10 miles over the speed limit.

A police error during a traffic stop has left a teenage woman of Mexican origin - who arrived in the United States at the age of four - detained in Georgia and on the verge of deportation, despite the fact that the authorities have publicly acknowledged that she did not commit any crime related to driving.This is Ximena Arias Cristóbal, a 19-year-old university student who is being held in the Stewart Immigration Detention Center, Lumpkin, in so…

By Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español Ximena Arias Cristóbal is 19 years old and a university student who is the recipient of a significant scholarship in the United States. She is Mexican by origin, but arrived in the United States with her family when she was just 4 years old. Therefore, the United States has been her home practically her entire life. She is the eldest of two sisters—who, unlike her, are American citizens—and she works hard to study…

Ximena Arias-Cristóbal, the 19-year-old facing deportation for a traffic violation she didn’t commit

Immigration authorities had arrested her father two weeks earlier. On May 5, it was her turn. Ximena Arias-Cristóbal, a 19-year-old college student who arrived in the United States with her undocumented parents when she was just four, was driving down the streets where she grew up in Dalton, Georgia, when police stopped her for allegedly making an improper turn. When asked for her driver’s license, she said she had an international one but didn’…