Officials drop traffic charges that led ICE to arrest 19-year-old Georgia teen

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Dalton, Georgia -- Local authorities in Dalton, Georgia, on Monday dismissed the traffic charges that led Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain a 19-year-old Mexican-born college student who has lived in the United States since she was 4. Ximena Arias Cristobal, who is in the country without authorization, was taken into ICE custody earlier this month after a May 5 traffic stop in Dalton, where she lives with her family.
47% : But he said he could not opine on how ICE should treat Arias Cristobal's case going forward, given the new information.
43% : She did not qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program for other undocumented immigrant "Dreamers" who came to the U.S. as minors because she arrived after the policy's June 2007 cutoff date.
41% : He said local officials notified her lawyers of the dismissed charges but did not alert ICE.
30% : ICE arrested him last month, also following a traffic stop, his family said. ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment on what actions, if any, it would take in response to the decision by authorities in Dalton to drop the traffic violations against Arias Cristobal.
24% : Arias Cristobal's arrest is one of several high-profile cases of undocumented immigrants being arrested by ICE during the Trump administration, despite living in the country for many years and lacking criminal histories.
21% : Soon after President Trump took office, his administration dramatically expanded who could face arrest and deportation, reversing Biden-era rules that largely limited ICE operations to arrests of serious criminals, national security threats and recent arrivals in the U.S. illegally.

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