Dallas teen missing since 2010 was mistakenly deported

[boston bean]

Turner has been searching for 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 searched for months for a clue.

"God just kept leading me," she said. "I wake up in the middle of the night and do whatever God told me to do, and I found her."

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.

"They didn't do their work," Turner said. "How do you deport a teenager and send her to Colombia without a passport, without anything?"

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

[think]

1. People need to be fired, named and shamed. This is a severe travesty of justice.

[Maine_Nurse]

5. More to the story. Still a problem, but...

She was arrested. She gave a false, made-up name which happened to be the same as a foreign national that had previously been deported. That fast-tracked her for deportation. The problem is that they fingerprinted her, but didn't bother to check them against the actual person with that name.

A LOT of the blame lies on her in this one for lying and stealing. Not all of it, obviously, but play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[think]

6. I stand by my statement. This is incompetency and utter stupidity

I expect a hell of a lot more out of those law enforcement officials than I do a 15 year old kid in handling something of this magnitude.

From the article:

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.

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

[surfdog]

2. Not a very bright lady

She can't even recognize it was the Dallas police that found her daughter and not the Lord

[bitchkitty]

3. Not a very bright kid.

She couldn't speak up and tell them the truth? She didn't wonder where the plane was going?

[jberryhill]

4. How do you know what she did and didn't say?

Oh, I see... Once she was turned over to ICE all she had to say was "I'm really from the US" and they would have said, "Oh, we've never heard that before. You can go now. "

But I'm interested to know where you got your information about what she did in custody.