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Title: Missing Dallas teen accidentally deported to Colombia
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URL Source: http://ttp://news.yahoo.com/blogs/s ... TA0YjlhMwRwb3MDMgRzZWMDbW9zdF9
Published: Jan 6, 2012
Author: Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow
Post Date: 2012-01-06 05:57:08 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 352
Comments: 11

A Dallas teen missing for more than a year has been found living in Colombia.

Lorene Turner tells WFAA that her granddaughter Jakadrien Turner ran away from home in the fall of 2010 when she was just 14. Jakadrien made her way to Houston, where she was arrested by police.

That's when things took a turn toward the Kafka-esque. Jakadrien gave the police a false name and her new alias just happened to match up with the name of a 22-year-old Colombian citizen who had been in the United States illegally. And to compound Turner's plight further, the Colombian national had a warrant out for her arrest.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) then deported Jakadrien in April 2011.

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

Turner said she'd been looking on her computer every night for clues to her granddaughter's location, and has been cooperating with Dallas police as she carries out her search. It turns out that after Jakadrien was deported, she was given a work card in Colombia and released onto the streets.

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

Jakadrien is now being held in a Colombia detention facility while awaiting more information on her case.

"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."


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Ron • Phoenix, Arizona using the wrong name just made up to give to the police is not a good ideal i had a freind in az who was wanted on an open container warrent and was pulled over and he gave a false name guess what the name he used was wanted in NY for murder away he went

Arlen • Arlington, Texas Those of you saying things at home couldn't be all that bad and that kids should never run away are dead wrong...things at home are very often the worst possible situation a child can be in and running away may be the only solution at the time...think drugs, think irresponsible or uncaring parents, think beatings LITERALLY within an inch of their lives, think molestation, rape and murder...the list goes on...and the excuses range from "I just simply got distracted and forgot" to "God told me to do it"...all of these things have happened to children where they live. crimes committed by babysitters, boyfriends/girlfriends, parents, sisters, brothers and other family...it's in the news all the time

Human • Beverly Hills, California She's gonna come back with awesome skills! Super bilingual and didn't have to pay for Tuition expenses “studying abroad” and she doesn’t seem to bright so she has the job skills that are perfect for her in Houston. I think it was a win win! you go girl

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It's a cinch that a runaway teen can outwit local, state and federal government given the fact that when their inertial mis-guidance systems collide, the result is often disaster & calamity or sometimes simply comical error, as we see in this case.

The deportation of Jakadrien Turner

BY TED FRANK ON JANUARY 5, 2012 8:20 AM

Jakadrien Turner, an African-American 14-year-old runaway from Dallas, was arrested for shoplifting hundreds of miles away in Houston. Rather than tell police who she was and risk being sent back home, she gave them the name of a 22-year-old Colombian. Houston police determined that the 22-year-old was subject to a deportation order, and transferred Turner to federal authorities, who deported her to Colombia. Several months later, Turner contacted her grandmother through Facebook, and the story has hit the media, and people are outraged. [WFAA; Gawker; Likko]

I don't think we have enough facts yet to be outraged at the deportation. It seems very improbable that authorities would knowingly deport an American citizen; as it is, illegal aliens can use the legal process to delay deportation for years and there are 1.1 million unenforced deportation orders. I am willing to wager money that when all the facts come out, Turner never told state or federal authorities her true identity or contested her deportation to Colombia. Teens—especially the sort who view themselves mature enough to run away from home—often have fake ID. Turner could well have decided, once she learned she was subject to deportation, that it was better to compound the lie and have the adventure of going to Colombia than facing the wrath of her family, the risk of juvenile delinquency prosecution, or even whatever was waiting for her if she was released from jail to the Houston streets. The fact that Turner waited several months after arriving in Colombia to express concern to her family (all the while participating on Facebook posing as a 21-year-old) suggests an element of preference to being in Colombia rather than having her family get her home: Colombia isn't a North Korean gulag.

Perhaps this isn't so. Perhaps Turner was being forcibly prevented from contacting her family once she was deported. Perhaps several American officials callously ignored pleadings of mistaken identity; if so, heads should roll. But there are very many more voluntary teenage runaways than involuntarily deported English-speaking American citizens; very few immigration officials have the incentive to risk their careers to deport an American citizen. So the smart money is on the voluntary deportation theory.

If Turner did not contest her identity or her deportation, it's hard to see what immigration officials should have done differently. There isn't a national biometric database of teenagers' (much less illegal aliens') fingerprints, DNA, dental records, or government microchip implants—and, normally, we think that to be a good thing. There's no reason to question the identity of someone who assumes an identity simultaneously with the adverse consequences that go along with that identity; there isn't even a reason to do so in the future, because the costs of doing so almost certainly outweigh the benefits of the extraordinarily rare scenario of a Jakadrien Turner. Unless we're going to stop deporting people entirely, there's no cost-effective means, short of infringing on the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of Americans, of preventing a Jakadrien Turner from deceiving immigration officials.

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