Georgia college student detained by ICE after being wrongly pulled over is granted bond

Ximena Arias-Cristobal, 19, who was brought to the U.S. from Mexico when she was four years old, still faces deportation charges, the Trump administration said.

A 19-year-old college student in Georgia, who was detained by immigration authorities after police pulled over the wrong car in a traffic stop, was granted bond on Wednesday.

Ximena Arias-Cristobal was held in a detention center under the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in western Georgia while her lawyer and family fought for her release.

She was detained after she was pulled over by the Dalton Police Department on May 5 and accused of making an improper turn and driving without a proper license. A week later, all charges against her were dropped after the department said police had pulled over the wrong car.

Ximena Arias-Cristobal, 19, was arrested in Dalton, Ga., following a traffic stop.City of Dalton via WXIABut ICE kept Arias-Cristobal in detention because the agency determined she was in the United States illegally. Arias-Cristobal was born in Mexico but has lived in the United States since she was 4 years old. The Dalton State Community College student did not qualify for protections under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) established in 2012 because she was brought to the U.S. after new applications were stopped, following lawsuits by Republican states trying to end the program.

She now faces deportation proceedings.