last month, Arias-Tovar was arrested when he was pulled over for speeding and no drivers license.. This week, his daughter was arrested for running a red light, and no drivers license. That's odd... wouldn't you think after your dad gets arrested, for bad driving, you'd be really really careful when driving? But that's not the punchline.

 their entire family is in the USA illegally, and has been for 15 years. 

Arias-Cristobal admitted to being in the U.S. illegally and does not have an application pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to DHS.

"Mr. Tovar had ample opportunity to seek a legal pathway to citizenship. He chose not to." DHS said. 

And the father and daughter are BOTH in the same jail, the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., where her father, Jose Francisco Arias-Tovar, is also being held.

https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/georgia-dalton-state-college-student-ximena-arias-cristobal-faces-deportation-after-arrest-for-running-red-light/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-defends-ice-detainment-georgia-college-student-who-violated-traffic-laws-not-ignoring-rule-law.amp

I don't wish anyone's life to be utterly changed, instantly, by being returned to their country of citizenship, and origin. My aunt's are from Italy, Taiwan, and Canada. I have friends and co-workers from Cambodia, the Philippines, China, Mexico, etc etc. 

I do want people to get into this, or any other country legally, and once in those countries, if they choose to make a new life, to get the legal authorization to stay, with a work visa, a green card, or citizenship through the normal process that at least, the USA has. I don't know if other countries have a process, other than that gold passport that you've probably heard about. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2025/05/08/as-malta-golden-passport-likely-ends-demand-for-golden-visa-rises/ 

I know that it's been widely publisized for decades that Australia doesn't have a open door, unless you're a scientist, or investor, and that Italy and other European countries are welcoming in Hollywood celebs who spend a crazy amount of money there. And hey, that's cool, anyone with a crazy amount of money is welcome to spend it nearly everywhere around the world. It's called tourism. But the homeless, jobless, poor, are simply not welcome to move into any other country, as most countries are bankrupt. Just ask anyone, the USA is 39 trillion in debt.

Nearly half of the countries of the European continent, 40% of the countries of Africa, and 30% of the countries of Asia declared bankruptcy during the previous two centuries.

Ecuador has declared itself bankrupt most times among sovereign nations.

It has declared bankruptcy 10 times.

Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Spain and Russia have declared bankruptcy nine times during the same period.

Germany has suffered from bankruptcy 8 times in two and a half years, thus coming to the forefront of the major economic countries that have been bankrupt, followed by the US 5 times, China and UK 4 times, and Japan twice.

https://www.tbsnews.net/world/6-major-countries-went-bankrupt-recent-times-453426