On Monday morning, Ximena Arias-Cristobal, a 19-year-old student from Georgia, made a red light. Now it is exposed to the possibility of deportation without her own fault -and in the Trump government, America has the risk of another young person to pursue the American dream of freeing the country of the Trump government.
Since President Donald Trump's inauguration in January, the White House has depicted its exceeding deportation efforts to protect Americans from criminal migrants. The detention and possible deportation of Arias-Cristobal mock such claims.
We already know that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than local Americans and less likely. However, the case of Arias-Cristobal shows how Trump's constant representation of migrants as Marking invaders led to the fact that all undocumented immigrants are treated such as criminals, even those who maintain members of society.
We already know that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than local Americans and less likely.
Arias-Cristobal was taken into custody because she had no driver's license from Georgia, but in such cases the police often spend a quote instead of arresting the driver. During the booking it became clear that it was illegal in the country and was handed over to ice. She was then brought to a detention center by her house for three hours and chains around her wrists and ankles.
Followers of the President's zero tolerance immigration policy will argue that Arias-Cristobal could have applied for a way to citizenship, but in reality there is no way for them to receive legal status. At the age of 4, she arrived with her parents in America, who entered the country illegally. (It is recorded in the same ice discovering center as her father, Jose Francisco Arias-Tovar, who was arrested two weeks ago at a separate traffic stop.)
In the past, she could have registered in the DACA program (Deferred Action for Childhood arrival) that deepened the deportation every two years, but Trump ended it in 2017.
Now there are no options for you. When her state representative, Kacey Carpenter, a Republican, pointed out a reporter at WTVC in Chattanooga, Tennessee: “There is no way for someone who is currently towards citizenship in America, unless they marry, or they have a child, and the child grows up and the child grows.
The lawyer of Dustin Baxter, Arias-Cristobal, told me that her detention is a direct result of the trump government's irreconcilable immigration policy. If Arias-Cristobal had been run over on January 19, “nothing would have happened. It would have been quoted and not arrested.” Due to the zero -release guideline of the Trump government, however, it is stuck in an ice disconnection center. Baxter tells me that his office, which specializes in immigration matters, sees “hundreds of cases like Arias-Cristobals” when they “did not see any similar cases during the bid administration”.
Arias-Cristobal, who headed Cross Country in the high school and was a student, can hardly be seen as a threat to society.
The same applies to her father. He has a local business and has no criminal register. In a public announcement on his detention, the Ministry of Homeland Security said that Tovar “had enough opportunity to look for a legal path to citizenship”, but Baxter scoffed at the performance. “This is not how the immigration system does not work. If people have not yet received any legal status, it is not because they do the nose stupid. Our laws are old and outdated and they offer people in the country no way for illegal to get status.”
Surprisingly, Tovar, although he illegally came to the United States as an adult, has a better chance of staying in the country than his daughter.
Arias-Cristobal, who headed Cross Country in the high school and was a student, can hardly be seen as a threat to society.
Since Tovar is in the distance status, he can apply for a cancellation of the distance because the deportation would harm his children, the American citizens. However, the options are more limited for Arias-Cristobal. Before Trump took up his office, immigration judges received a certain scope in order to enable migrants to remain in the country in the permission of migrants without papers such as Arias-Cristobal. But “that was removed at the beginning of the Trump administration,” says Baxter.
It has become a bit of a cliché that we are a nation of immigrants, but it is also a fact. When her 12-year-old sister Aurora, who was born in America and is therefore a American citizen, said Newsweek of her parents: “They are not criminals and they are good people who came here to earn themselves. They came here for a better future, a brilliant future and they came here to work and not to criminals.”
How many generations of Americans can tell the same story?
How does it benefit America to say people who consider this country as a country of opportunities and who are looking for a better life for their children that they are criminals and don't deserve to live among us? How does Ximena Deports Arias-Cristobal, a 19-year-old student with a brilliant future that makes America great again?
Trump's supporters will repeat the same mantra as press spokeswoman for the White House, Katherine Leavitt, that all immigrants are criminals without papers. In reality this is not true – just being illegal in the country is not a crime; It is a civilian injury. But in practice it is simply bad politics and fundamentally harmful. Ximena Arias-Cristobal and her father are the kind of people we should want in America. They differ little from the generations of Americans who helped build this country and make it great.
A man who has planted deep roots in America does not benefit anyone. Treating a 19-year-old-like practically her whole life in America-as an alien and “others” who are to be feared, does not make life better.
“Ximena speaks with a southern twang,” says Baxter. “She has no memory of Mexico. She doesn't have the documents to prove it … but she is as American as my own children.”
But because of a wrong turn, Ximena's American dream has turned into a nightmare. And we are all poorer as a result.
