Georgia teen says ICE detention was ‘life-altering’ and ‘like a prison’
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration is continuing its crackdown on immigration through enforcement raids, arrests, and deportations. |
| 0:07.5 | That has included some teenagers being taken into custody by immigration officials. |
| 0:12.0 | The recent arrest of an 18-year-old in Massachusetts on his way to volleyball practice has sparked protest in his community. |
| 0:20.0 | Laura Barone Lopez has the story of another teenager, this one in Georgia, who was recently |
| 0:25.1 | released from custody. |
| 0:27.3 | Last month in Dalton, Georgia, 19-year-old college student Jimena Arias Christobal became the |
| 0:32.7 | latest target of Trump's agenda. |
| 0:34.8 | After being pulled over for a traffic violation, she didn't commit. |
| 0:38.5 | Arias Christobal was handed over to immigration customs enforcement agents and detained for 17 |
| 0:43.8 | days. Her arrest sparked protests and support from the community, and the charges were |
| 0:48.7 | ultimately dropped. Arias Cristobal, who was brought to the U.S. illegally when she was four years |
| 0:53.8 | old, was released on bond and faces deportation to Mexico. |
| 0:57.9 | Hima, joins me now to share her story. |
| 1:00.3 | Hima, thank you so much for talking to us. |
| 1:02.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:04.4 | Hima, take us back to that day. |
| 1:05.9 | You were being pulled over for a traffic stop, and then you were handed over to immigration agents. What was going through |
| 1:12.1 | your mind? I was very fearful of what my future may hold because I know how immigration looks right |
| 1:19.0 | now and how even being in college, a 19 year old that has lives here for 15 years, that really |
| 1:26.7 | didn't mean much. |
| 1:28.0 | I was also very fearful because I knew that my father was already being detained in Stewart Detention Center for the same reason as me a couple weeks before I was taken to Stewart. |
| 1:42.0 | You were detained for a little bit more than two weeks, just hours from your home in Dalton. |
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