Did you hear about this? Texas teen missing since 2010 was mistakenly deported

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http://www.kvue.com/news/state/Texas-teen-missing-since-2010-was-mistakenly-deported-136656878.html

Texas teen missing since 2010 was mistakenly deported . by REBECCA LOPEZ

WFAA

Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:28 AM

DALLAS - “It's very frustrating," Lorene Turner said.

She has spent hours on Facebook trying to find her granddaughter, Jakadrien.

"Once I get home I am up until 3 or 4 in the morning searching and looking," Turner said. "It's all I can think about. Finding my baby."

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?"

WFAA 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 Colombia, who had warrants out for her arrest.

So ICE officials stepped in.

WFAA 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.

"She talked about how they had her working in this big house cleaning all day, and how tired she was," Turner said.

Through her granddaughter’s Facebook messages, Turner says she tracked Jakadrian down.

U.S. Federal authorities got an address. U.S. Embassy officials in Colombia asked police to pick her up.

But that was a month ago, and the Colombian government now has her in a detention facility and won't release her, despite her family's request.

"I feel like she will come home," the grandmother said with tears in her eyes. "I just need help and prayer.”

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.

"ICE takes these allegations very seriously," said ICE Director of Public Affairs Brian Hale. "At the direction of [the Department of Homeland Security], ICE is fully and immediately investigating this matter in order to expeditiously determine the facts of this case."

ICE officials also noted there have been instances where ICE has seen cases of individuals providing inaccurate information regarding who they are and their immigration status for ulterior motives.

E-mail rlopez@wfaa.com.

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

The video packages listed below are from local stations two days ago. The latest according to CNN is that the 15 year old pregnant Texas teenager should be released to the US soon.

Story and video package

Another good version with more info

[Kathryn41 3,205]

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[Ashlee and Bjørn 6]

That is crazy to think that something like that could even happen.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

It was her damn fault, the little brat.

Worst part being the fact that she's now home and hasn't been arrested for her original crimes/lying to authorities.

On top of that, the little brat is pregnant and going to be an even bigger burden to the taxpayers.

Zero sympathy for this garbage in society.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

She didn't pull this off on her own. She's way too stupid and ghetto for that.

She's a hooker and was working for a Colombian pimp. She lied to federal agents, is guilty of material misrepresentation, and should be jailed for a long time. The little ####### should be taken away from her and given up to adoption. Too bad she didn't die down there.

Frankly, since she claimed to be a Colombian citizen, the drug lords down there should have taken care of her. Why spending tax payers' money on helping a no-good &%* like her to travel back to the U.S. She made her bed, they should have let her sleep in it.

Edited January 20, 2012 by Brother Hesekiel

[Susita 175]

The little ####### should be taken away from her and given up to adoption. Too bad she didn't die down there.

That's just lovely. You're a real winner.

She's a 15-year-old girl for G's sake. I feel bad for her, for whatever happened in her life that made her resort to this. Children are a product of their upbringing & their environment.

I hope she gets some help.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

That's just lovely. You're a real winner.

She's a 15-year-old girl for G's sake. I feel bad for her, for whatever happened in her life that made her resort to this. Children are a product of their upbringing & their environment.

I hope she gets some help.

there's already no help for her.

She's destined to be a leech for the rest of her life. The best thing that could happen would be to take the child away from her and place her in prison where she belongs. She made her own bed and now she needs to lie in it.

A product of her upbringing perhaps, but unfortunately as the product of such we don't need her as a drain on society by popping out more kids (which she will do). Take action now and rid society of the burden of this brat.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

So she had access to the internet in order to post FB statuses but never contacted the authorities to say she was deported wrongfully? She didn't contact ANYONE to get a msg to her family? No there is more to this story. Probably couldn't afford a flight out of the country and claimed to be illegal to get a flight somewhere else... how else do you explain the name actually being linked to someone? She knew what she was doing...

Her life obviously didn't suck too much over there. She's a bad kid.

Oh and no, not all children are products of their upbringing and environment. Some people are just born bad and no matter the positive influence they remain bad.

Edited January 26, 2012 by Vanessa&Tony

[ollie 47]

Bottom line is (which somehow has been omitted from this post).....SHE said she was an illegal immigrant.....and somehow there's now a huge uproar because she got deported