Dalton, Ga. – After a traffic stop to the right arch on Monday in Dalton, a 19-year-old student in Dalton is now exposed to a possible deportation.
Friends say, Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who has lived in Whitfield County since her 4-year-old country, was brought to the Stewart detention center with chains around her wrists and ankles. There she will wait a little more than a month before she appears in front of a judge. This facility is located near Columbus about 3 and a half hours.
Arias-Cristobal is no longer close to her family members, apart from one: a police report that we received, shows that her father, Jose Francisco Arias-Tovar, was recorded in Tunnel Hill 2 weeks ago because he had gone 19 miles over the speed limit. The family says he is housed in the same icing cautious center.
The police from Dalton tell us that the police had taken over at the intersection of the Walnut Avenue and the Thornton Avenue Ximena Arias-Cristobal at the intersection of Walnut Avenue and Thornton Avenue after making an inappropriate on the right and ignored a sign “No red sign”.
The officials asked Arias-Cristobal for their license. A police report shows that she told you that she had an international driver's license, but she didn't have with her.
Online court files show that the police arrested Arias-Cristobal because they drove the traffic control devices without a valid driver's license and failure.
Dalton's police brought the teenager to the Whitfield County prison, where a spokesman says that their booking process all requires his residence status. Whitfield County has had a “prison model” contract with ICE since June 2020. The ICE website means
… identify and process removable aliens – with criminal or pending criminal charges – that are arrested by state or local law enforcement authorities.
According to Hannah Jones, Arias-Cristobal has been working with her family as a babysitter for years. According to Jones, the parents of Arias-Cristobal came from Mexico City in 2010 when she was a toddler.
We spoke the mother of Arias-Cristobal. She admits that the family came here illegally.
She says he has no criminal records, has a construction company and pays taxes. Arias-Cristobal's younger sister told us …
They came in with big dreams because they wanted a great future for my older sister. And you know, my sister goes to college and she has been an honorary student since the middle school. And she runs. She loves to run. It is her passion and the only reason why they came is to follow my sister's dreams.
Arias-Cristobal's younger sister translated for her mother, who told us that her husband tried to get a work visa, but could not.
“My father has his own company and you called a lawyer to see if you could get a job permit or visa, and you said that you would not have reached this status yet to get one to get one.”
According to her family, Arias-Cristobal was not entitled to register in the Daca program (deferred action for childhood accurivals) because it ended.
Daca allowed children from immigrants without papers to apply for a status that deepens their deportation opportunities every 2 years.
Arias-Cristobal is a graduate of the Dalton High School and Cross Country Athlete, who is now visiting the Dalton State College. Jones says her family paid tuition fees outside of the state.
Jones calls Arias-Cristobal “the most precious person” and believed that her international license allowed her to legally drive. But according to the Georgia Department of Driver Services …
If an American citizen in Georgia has an influence, he must receive a driver's license in Georgia within thirty (30) days.
The representative of Georgia State Kacey Carpenter (R) wrote a letter about Arias-Cristobal's name, which the judge should be read out in her case. He told us
The reality is that the conversation was always that we have to get hard criminals out of the country. Unfortunately, the people who are not hard criminals are involved in the laundry. It seems that we are much better in catching people who commit the offenses than people who are actually a danger to society.
We also spoke to Terry Olsen, an immigration lawyer in Chattanooga. He told us
We see that ICE really tries to find all the methods to say that an international way has violated the process and its status. What is concerned is that if you are checked at these checkpoints or the stops, ICE do not have the entire immigration file in front of you, you don't look at everything and only rely on one article. This is a question of civil rights.
A Gofundme page has been set up to secure the legal representation for Arias-Cristobal. From Wednesday at noon it had collected more than 20,000 US dollars.
We received Arias-Cristobal's arrest from the Dalton police. Read it completely below:
On May 5, 2025 at about 0847 hours I watched the traffic in the area of W. Walnut Ave. And S. Thornton Ave. When I watched a dark gray RAM 2500 with a Georgia day DBM4353 in the right binning lane by W Walnut Ave, turn right into the S. Thornton Ave on the published “No on the right to red” while the light was red. We stopped in a public parking lot near Pentz Street. I spoke to the driver who was identified as Ximena Arias. I explained to her who I was and why I stopped her. I asked her for a driver's license. She said she had none. I asked her if she ever had a license and she said an international license, but did not have her with her. She said her mother took it because she shouldn't drive. I tried to call the owner of the vehicle to tell you that the vehicle would be in this place. I couldn't reach her at first. Ximena could get the number from her mother. I let her put the phone on the speaker, but both the mother and the vehicle owner only spoke Spanish. I looked for her under an incident to arrest in front of my patrol car. I secured her in the back of my patrol vehicle. My vehicle was searched later after it was put in. I asked her if she wanted me to contact her consular and she said no. I transported her to Whitfield County prison. When I secured my firearms in the patrol car lock box in prison. I have transferred custody for Ximena to the prison rod and not licensed them in quotations for driving and booked a right without rights.
Attorney Terry Olsen tells us that the mother of Arias-Cristobal is most likely “arrested/arrested/arrested” within one month “.
According to Olsen, her daughters would be removed with her to hold the family together.
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