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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
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Views: 166
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." Poster Comment: From among comments: 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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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
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.
I thought that this story was interesting and instructive in that it illustrates how hopelessly out of touch with reality our immigration system is. How is it that among the scores of grownups that this youngster encountered in the system, none could make heads or tails out of what was going on here? This girl has been cleaning houses in Colombia which, according to her facebook entries, is "boring." She's also pregnant, if the newswires are to be believed, and she wants to come home. BY TED FRANK ON JANUARY 6, 2012 7:47 AM If you were betting on the true story of what happened to the 14-year-old American citizen deported to Colombia, I hope you paid attention to my odds- making. ABC News reports: An ICE official told ABC News that people who do enter the US illegally often have no documentation whatsoever to identify them or a country of origin. So, they took Turner at her word when she insisted she was a 21-year-old Colombian citizen. "[Turner] maintained this false identity throughout her local criminal proceedings in Texas where she was represented by a defense attorney and ultimately convicted," an ICE statement said. "At no time during these criminal proceedings was her identity determined to be false." Once she was convicted, she was handed over to ICE, where she still said she was a Colombian citizen, even while being interviewed by a representative from the Colombian consulate. Eventually, the Colombian authorities agreed she was a Colombian citizen, and authorized her deportation, providing her with full Colombian citizenship upon arrival in the country. http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/2012/01/jakadrien-turner-update.php
She never told anyone her real name, even her lawyer. When seconds count, the police are minutes away.
I guess not. But everyone, not limited to her lawyer and including ICE and the Houston cops it seems, couldn't find their butts with both hands. A young black teen who speaks no Spanish gets deported to Colombia. Those responsible are a bunch of 9-to-5ers, none of whom wanted to take responsibility to put two and two together on this one. This case speaks volumes about how our system works.
Her choice. She kept up the lie beyond her arrival in Columbia so that she wouldn't have to go home and face up to petty theft charges.......there is no short supply of stupidity in this case. " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
No doubt. She was off on an adventure. No mom to listen to and three squares a day. Probably pretty decent treatment all around. But what gets me is that there were dozens of adults involved in processing her case and active her daily management, and no one had a clue. ICE is investigating itself on this one. There is a magistrate or two that needs to be on the griddle. No wonder that there are 1.1 million unresolved deportation cases in this country. The system is staffed and run by career incompetents.
"Yo, das right, I be from Columbia....'n sheeit." Seriously, how could ANY adult not ask questions when a niglet from Dallas opened her mouth and revealed that she spoke English with an Ebonic accent??
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Jakadrien Turner update
#3. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
"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?"
#4. To: Turtle (#3)
She never told anyone her real name, even her lawyer.
#5. To: randge (#4)
A young black teen who speaks no Spanish gets deported to Colombia.
#6. To: abraxas (#5)
Her choice.
#7. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
(Edited)
-Alex Kurtagic
#8. To: X-15 (#7)
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
#9. To: ghostdogtxn (#8)
Freedom4um. Stay tuned, MLK's birthday is coming up on January 15 and then the whole month of February is set aside for whitey to genuflect upon the (mis)adventures of the darkies in America.
-Alex Kurtagic
#10. To: X-15 (#9)
Which one is White Pride Month? I get them all mixed up.
#11. To: X-15 (#7)
Phunnie! "Yo, das right, I be from Columbia....'n sheeit." Seriously, how could ANY adult not ask questions when a niglet from Dallas opened her mouth and revealed that she spoke English with an Ebonic accent??
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