Dalton, Ga. – A change from 2008 to a law of Georgia, and a renewed federal thrust against illegal immigration provides a clearer picture of what happened to a 19-year-old student from Dalton, who was arrested by ICE.
As we reported this week, 19-year-old Ximena Arias-Cristobal, a student at the Dalton State Community College, is now in Mexico. After being stopped, that was when a Dalton officer bent her to the right in front of a sign “No Turn -on Red” on a red light.
The official discovered that Arias-Cristobal had no US driving license and arrested her.
Her mother admitted that Arias-Cristobal was not legally in the country. The Whitfield County's office then transferred her custody of the immigration and customs authority after it agreed to the Ministry of Homeland Protection Authority.
Arias-Cristobal came to this country when she was 4 years old when her parents illegally entered the United States. Her father is now in the same detention center in which she is in the southwest of Georgia and he will have a status hearing next week.
We found out on Friday that this incident emphasized the intersection of the state driving laws and the federal immigration policy.
The lawyer of Arias-Cristobal, Charles Kuck, informed us that Georgia's driving laws that were changed in 2008 requested by all drivers to submit legal documents to receive a valid driver's license.
This change made driving without a driver's license a printable crime with fingers, which means that an arrest is made.
“When they grew up here without papers and the way they did, there is no way to get papers. They cannot become legal,” said Kuck.
Arias-Cristobal's younger sister Aurora mentioned that her sister had an international license
A arrest report says that Arias-Cristobal did not have an international license at that time, but told the officials.
On Thursday we asked your lawyer if this international license allowed her to legally drive.
“If you have a foreign driver's license or do not have a foreign driver's license, you can only apply for an international license. However, this is meaningless according to the law of Georgia or the law of Tennessee.”
A tunnel Hill's arrest report tells us that a similar situation has taken place at Arias-Cristobal's father.
“My father wanted to work and he wanted to get materials because he builds a house for some customers and they stopped him.”
This report states that Arias-Tovar has accelerated and handed over his international license to the officials, but not valid.
“If you are here for more than six months, you have to receive a new license in this state in most states,” says Kuck.
The law of Georgia Senate 488 adopted in 2008 decided that all drivers have to provide a form of legal documents in order to receive a valid driver's license.
Something that Arias-Cristobal says was not possible.
“When they grew up here without papers and enter as they did, there is no way to get papers. They cannot become legal.”
The Department of Homeland Security made a post on Arias-Cristobal and the detention of her father with ice after these separate traffic stops and said that she would return to Mexico with her family.
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