A Georgia teenager who was arrested for immigration and the application of customs after being detained by mistake for a traffic infraction that he did not commit at the beginning of this month received Bond on Wednesday, according to his lawyer.
Ximena Arias-Cristobal, 19, was arrested on May 5 in Dalton, Georgia, when her dark gray truck was confused with a black truck that made an illegal turn, authorities said. The Local Police Department and the fiscal lawyer dismissed the charges against it related to the wrong traffic stop, although it was arrested by ICE agents for being in the country illegally.
The National Security Department said after his arrest that he is committed to ordering Arias-Christobal to “sport for himself” to Mexico and “admitted to the United States illegally and has no pending applications with USCIS.”
Dash Cam Video published by the Dalton Georgia Police Department that shows Ximena Arias-Cristobal arrested during a traffic stop, on May 5, 2025, in Dalton Georgia.
Dalton Georgia Police Department
During a bond hearing on Wednesday, Arias-Cristobal received a bail of $ 1,500, the minimum possible amount under the law, according to his lawyer.
“The government did not want to appeal. The family will pay the bonus as soon as possible and Ximena will be at home with her family tomorrow afternoon at the latest,” said his lawyer, Dustin Baxter, in a statement.
The next hearing in the case has not been scheduled, another of his lawyers, Charles Kuck, told ABC Chattanooga, Tennessee, affiliated WTVCadding: “It would be remarkable if it is before mid -2016”.
Arias-Cristobal, a student from Dalton State College, was arrested at the Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, as shown by the ICE records.
The teenager arrived in the United States with her parents when she was 4 years old and is not eligible for the relief of deportation through the Deferred Action Program for Childhood Arrivals, which temporarily protects some migrants from deportation if they were brought to the country when they were children, said a lawyer from Arias-Christobal to ABC News.
Arias-Cristobal was not eligible to register for the DACA program because it ended before he was eligible to run at age 16.
Arias-Cristobal, 19, was arrested by ICE after being detained by mistake for a traffic infraction he did not commit.
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His father, José Francisco Arias-Tovar, was arrested separately by the police, and later ICE, two weeks before his daughter for accelerating and driving without a license, according to DHS. His father was released on bail of ICE custody last week, WTVC reported.
“Both the father and the daughter were in this country illegally and have to face the consequences,” DHS said in a Declaration last week. “The United States is offering foreigners like this father and daughter $ 1,000 each and a free flight to defend now. We encourage all people illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the opportunity to return to the United States in the right legal way of living the American dream. If not, it will be arrested and deported without the opportunity to return.”
Nadine El-Bawab and Armando García de ABC News contributed to this report.
