The roundups are the beginning:
After a traffic stop for turning right on a red light in Dalton on Monday, a 19-year-old Dalton State student is now facing possible deportation.
Friends say Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who has lived in Whitfield County since she was 4, was taken to the Stewart Detention Center wearing chains around her wrists and ankles. There, she’ll wait a little over a month before she appears before a judge. That facility is near Columbus about 3 and a half hours away.
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Dalton police took the teenager to the Whitfield County jail, where a spokesperson says their booking procedure includes asking everyone their residency status. Whitfield County has had a “Jail Enforcement Model” agreement with ICE since June of 2020.The ICE website says that means they can
…identify and process removable aliens — with criminal or pending criminal charges — who are arrested by state or local law enforcement agencies.
… Jones says Arias-Cristobal’s parents came to the Dalton area from Mexico City in 2010, when she was a toddler.
Arias-Cristobal’s father has also been scooped up. He also doesn’t have a criminal record and owns a construction company and pays taxes.
They came in with big dreams because they wanted a big future for my older sister. And, you know, my sister goes to college, and she was an honor student since middle school. And she runs. She loves to run. It’s her passion, and the only reason they came is to follow my sister’s dreams.
Arias-Cristobal is a graduate of Dalton High School and cross country athlete, is now attending Dalton State College. Jones says her family has been paying out-of-state tuition.
She was too young to qualify for DACA.
I feel like crying. This person is not a criminal nor a danger to anyone. Neither is her father or anyone else in her family.
The federal government (with the help of plenty of locals) are gathering up anyone they can find on the streets, in workplaces, schools, everywhere, putting them in chains and throwing them into prison for weeks and months at a time before sending them off to god knows where. All so that Donald Trump could get re-elected and his Nazi majordomo could fulfill his life’s work as Satan’s apprentice.
There is a reign of terror happening all over America, menacing every non-citizen no matter their circumstances from tiny children to green card holders to workers to tourists, all of whom contribute more to this country than the entire horde of MAGA ghouls ever have or will. It is a monstrous, unspeakable nightmare for millions of people who live among us.
We are literally a fascist country.