Dallas teen missing since 2010 was mistakenly deported

[Newsjock]

Source: WFAA-TV

Lorene Turner ... has been searching for (her granddaughter) Jakadrien since the fall of 2010, when she ran away from home. She was 14 years old and distraught over the loss of her grandfather and her parents’ divorce.

... Turner said with the help of Dallas Police, she found her granddaughter in the most unexpected place - Colombia. Where she had mistakenly been deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in April of 2011.

... News 8 learned that Jakadrien somehow ended up in Houston, where she was arrested by Houston police for theft. She gave Houston police a fake name. When police in Houston ran that name, it belonged to a 22-year-old illegal immigrant from Columbia, who had warrants for her arrest.

... News 8 has learned ICE took the girl's fingerprints, but somehow didn't confirm her identity and deported her to Colombia, where the Colombian government gave her a work card and released her.

Read more: http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Dallas-Teen-Is--Mistakenly-Deported--136626533.html

[RC]

1. I don't even recognize my country anymore.

[girl gone mad]

4. It's just a little state interventionism.

Lincoln would have approved.

[Historic NY]

2. Its Texas oooooooops....

There are still many unanswered questions about how an African-American girl who speaks no Spanish is mistaken for a foreign national. Immigration officials are investigating and released a statement late Tuesday.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. A 14 year-old was thought to be a 22 year-old woman? Unreal.

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Most disturbing news of the day.

Bureaucracy gone mad......

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. At least she wasn't indefinitely detained

........ops sorry about that.

[mrs_p]

7. OMFG

That is crazy. Simply, shamefully, crazy.

[MilesColtrane]

8. I hope the family sues the ever living shit out of Customs for this.

[Starry Messenger]

9. Reason # 139000 why ICE should be dumped.

What a total cock up. If this was my 14 year old alone in Colombia, there'd be wigs on the green.

[struggle4progress]

10. ICE (and prior INS) has regularly made mistakes like this for years

Part of the current problem is that the courts today don't think all due process protections extend to non-citizens -- so once you get into ICE custody, the natural presumption will be that you don't have all the rights of a citizen

I bet we can find at least two or three cases like this every year in the last decade: I remember a post on DU2 back in 2007 or 2008 detailing several dozen recent cases where US citizens vanished into the ICE system

[L. Coyote]

11. They at least shipped her out of a really dangerous country

where anyone can be detained for life without charges or rights, and sent her to a country with nice people.

[obamanut2012]

12. An AA teen who speaks no Spanish

And she was deported???

And, why is Colombia being allowed to still detain her? Where is the US Government on this???

I hope she wins a huge settlement from ICE.

Someone just told me she's now pregnant, too?

[Lionessa]

13. It says she was released, not detained. Columbia isn't "still detain"ing

her.

[obamanut2012]

14. Not per that article -- she's detained

By the Colombian government. I even just Googled to make sure she hasn't been released in the last few hours. She's in a detention facility in Colombia.

[pinboy3niner]

15. "...where the Colombian government gave her a work card and released her."

From the OP.

She was free until she was detained again last month "at the behest of American officials."

Relatives of an Oak Cliff girl are trying to figure out how the 15-year-old, born in this country, ended up being sent by authorities to Colombia, where she has been living for months under a false name and is now pregnant.

Jakadrien Larise Turner is in the custody of Colombian authorities, who picked her up last month at the behest of American officials who are now trying to unravel a bureaucratic tangle to get the girl home.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/oak-cliff/headlines/20120103-dallas-runaway-a-u.s.-citizen-deported-to-colombia.ece

[obamanut2012]

19. Correct, she is detained as I stated in my post

And, as I stated before, I was wondering why the Colombian government hadn't released her back to the US.

[marshall]

16. Sounds like she doesn't want to come home

Grandma got her address, and instead of sending her a ticket home or telling her to turn herself into the US embassy, she asks the police to pick her up.

And I wonder if Jakadrien tried to correct ICE when she realized that she was being deported. Why give the name of somebody from Colombia? I think it's possible that she wanted to get to Colombia, either because she knew somebody there, or she wanted to get as far away from her family as she could.

Of course that doesn't excuse the fact that she is a minor, and her grandmother seems to havve custody of her.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. African American deported?

[yellowcanine]

18. "ICE takes these allegations very seriously," said ICE Director of Public Affairs Brian Hale.

Allegations, Brian? The young woman was in ICE custody and now she is in Columbia. I guess you can call them allegations if you want, but seems like a slam dunk case that ICE mistakenly deported a non Spanish speaking African American citizen to Columbia.

[Matariki]

20. There are no phones in Columbia?

She couldn't call her family or find an embassy? Something about this is screwy.

[Historic NY]

21. Moral of the story if your running away and lie about your age &

who you are to the police you could end up and expenseless trip to an exotic country not of your choosing...