Ximena Arias-Cristóbal, the 19-year-old facing deportation for a traffic violation she didn’t commit

Ximena Arias-Cristóbal, the 19-year-old facing deportation for a traffic violation she didn’t commit

Immigration authorities had arrested her father two weeks earlier. On May 5, it was her turn. Ximena Arias-Cristóbal, a 19-year-old college student who arrived in the United States with her undocumented parents when she was just four, was driving down the streets where she grew up in Dalton, Georgia, when police stopped her for allegedly making an improper turn. When asked for her driver’s license, she said she had an international one but didn’t have it with her, so she was arrested for driving without a license.

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