Twist in case of glamorous teenager, 19, detained by ICE after illegally turning at a red light

In a astonishing crook of events, authorities person sensationally dropped the postulation charges that landed a 19-year-old assemblage pupil successful ICE custody — aft cops admitted they mistakenly stopped the incorrect car. 

Ximena Arias Cristobal, a Mexican-born pupil who has lived successful the United States since she was four, was taken into ICE custody pursuing a May 5 postulation stop successful Dalton, Georgia, wherever she lives with her family. 

She was cited for making an improper crook and driving without a license, past booked into the Whitfield County Jail, a determination that triggered her transportation to ICE custody.

The Dalton Police Department and the metropolis prosecutor, however, revealed they had reviewed dashcam footage from the halt and determined the serviceman had made a mistake. 

The conveyance that committed the postulation infraction was akin successful quality to the motortruck Arias Cristobal was driving, they said.

Despite the charges being dropped, Arias Cristobal remains successful ICE custody and is present facing deportation. She is being held astatine the Stewart Detention Center successful Lumpkin, Georgia, according to ICE's online detainee tracking system.

Her father, Jose Francisco Arias Tovar, is besides detained astatine the aforesaid facility. He was arrested by ICE past period pursuing a abstracted postulation halt successful Tunnel Hill, the household said.

Ximena Arias Cristobal has lived successful Georgia since she was four. But owed to section instrumentality enforcement's strict coordination with ICE, she was swiftly transferred to Stewart aft the May 5 postulation stop, according to ABC 9.

The 19-year-old pupil was shackled astatine the wrists and ankles arsenic she was brought into the facility, wherever she is expected to stay for implicit a period earlier appearing earlier a judge.

After being pulled over, Arias Cristobal told the serviceman she had an planetary driver's licence — but did not person it with her astatine the time.

Online jailhouse records amusement she was initially arrested for driving without a valid licence and for failing to obey postulation power devices — some of which person present been dismissed.

Arias Cristobal had antecedently attempted to use for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) aft arriving successful the U.S. successful 2010, but her parent said the programme had ended a twelvemonth earlier they crossed the border.

DACA allowed undocumented children brought to the U.S. to use for deportation deferral each 2 years. The programme has been closed to caller applicants for respective years.

During her booking astatine the jail, Arias Cristobal was asked astir her migration presumption — a regular portion of intake astatine Whitfield County that often leads to ICE referrals.

In a twist of fate, Arias Cristobal is being held successful the aforesaid installation arsenic her father, Jose Francisco Arias Tovar, who was detained successful Tunnel Hill 2 weeks earlier for speeding.

Attorney Terry Olsen warned the teen's parent whitethorn beryllium next. 'It's apt Arias Cristobal's parent volition beryllium 'arrested oregon detained wrong a period oregon so,'' helium said.

Jones said Arias Cristobal had babysat her children for years and added, 'We adore her.' She besides told the outlet the teen is 'the astir precious human' and believed her planetary licence allowed her to thrust legally.

Arias Cristobal's younger sister spoke emotionally astir the family's journey: 'They came successful with large dreams due to the fact that they wanted a large aboriginal for my older sister. And, you know, my sister goes to college, and she was an grant pupil since mediate school.'

'And she runs. She loves to run. It's her passion, and the lone crushed they came is to travel my sister's dreams,' her sister added.

Their mother, speaking done the younger daughter, said: 'My dada has his ain company, and they called a lawyer to spot if they could get a occupation licence oregon a visa, and they said that they hadn't deed that presumption to get 1 yet.'

Georgia State Representative Kacey Carpenter besides weighed in, penning a missive connected the teen's behalf: 'The world is, the speech has ever been that we request to get hard criminals retired of the country.

'Unfortunately, the radical that aren't hard transgression are getting caught up successful the wash. It seems similar we are overmuch amended astatine catching radical that [are] committing misdemeanors than radical that are really a information to society.'