Missing Dallas teen accidentally deported to Colombia
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/missing-dallas-teen-accidentally-deported-columbia-162535506.html

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"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.""

1/5/2012 5:03:36 PM

What the fuck is a fingerprint?

1/5/2012 5:05:40 PM

that'll teach her to run away from home, lol

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM. Reason : ]

1/5/2012 5:06:21 PM

Lesson: Don't name your kid Jakadrien. Pick one or the other.

1/5/2012 5:07:17 PM

I fail to see what the government did improperly. This girl gave a false name, another report said she had a fake ID with the name, and never cared to try to correct the situation.

1/5/2012 5:15:39 PM

The girl is also pregnant now, btw

1/5/2012 5:18:58 PM

lol @ cleaning a house all day and how tired she was.

1/5/2012 5:22:13 PM

so you sick fucks don't have any problem shipping a child to Columbia and dumping her on the streets?

got it

1/5/2012 5:23:08 PM

http://message_topic.aspx?topic=614874

1/5/2012 5:24:56 PM

she wanted to run away

got further than most

1/5/2012 5:26:42 PM

^^^ no. Because the darwin candidate gave the authorities a fake name, bullshit story, etc. At any point during that she could have told the truth and gotten herself out of the situation.


I will say the authorities stepped on their collective dick by not taking fingerprints, but that wouldn't have done any good if her fingerprints weren't already on record.

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 5:28 PM. Reason : carat]

1/5/2012 5:28:21 PM

They should do this more often

1/5/2012 5:30:11 PM

she didn't even try to backpedal when she realized she was being deported? surely some details are missing.

1/5/2012 5:33:03 PM

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"What the fuck is a fingerprint?"

Seriously.

Deporting someone is seriously bidness. I'd think that you'd try to confirm identity somehow. Fuck. Who cares if she has a fake ID on her? The cashier at the ABC store knows how to spot one, why couldn't they?

1/5/2012 5:34:43 PM

wouldn't have done any good if her fingerprints weren't already on record, and what are the chances that a 14 year old has fingerprints on record with the cops?

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 5:38 PM. Reason : edit]

1/5/2012 5:37:49 PM

i just have to think she had to be trying to fight it. telling them to call her parents and they could produce her birth certificate and whatnot. or she's just a fucking idiot and let it happen.

1/5/2012 5:40:32 PM

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"What the fuck is a fingerprint?"

1/5/2012 5:50:08 PM

lol

like ICE gives a shit about fingerprints

1/5/2012 5:52:08 PM

well, she had an ID and name that is of a 22 yr old illegal who would not have any other records anyway, as far as the authorities knew, she was a 22 yr old illegal who was wanted in her home country, therefore a fugitive. Columbia wanted the fugitive asap and the US had no complaints handing over a wanted foreigner.

regardless of how it happened, that must have been rough and I do feel for her. It was unfortunate, and despite her own decisions leading her there, she is only a minor. Her frontal lobe (part of the brain that is connected to consequences and forethought) was not developed and so you can't say she necessarily deserved all of this. I feel bad, but she did learn a very expensive lesson.

1/5/2012 5:52:19 PM

It isnt the governments responsibility to double and triple check the background and story validity of someone who admits a given identity over and over again.

They "found" the broad over a year later, after she decided she wasnt having fun anymore. More like she finally decided to come clean. Hell, they took some runaway shoplifting shitstain off the streets and turned them into a productive citizen (of Columbia). I think this is actually a success story

1/5/2012 5:53:33 PM

I like ThePeter's glass half-full take on this situation .

1/5/2012 6:08:32 PM

no, i'm asking... what the fuck IS a fingerprint?

1/5/2012 6:14:32 PM

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"It isnt the governments responsibility to double and triple check the background and story validity of someone who admits a given identity over and over again. They "found" the broad over a year later, after she decided she wasnt having fun anymore. More like she finally decided to come clean. Hell, they took some runaway shoplifting shitstain off the streets and turned them into a productive citizen (of Columbia). I think this is actually a success story"

10/10

1/5/2012 6:16:28 PM

Uhm, has anyone considered the fact that she was a 14 year old African American teenager and not a 22 year old Colombian? I mean, if she gave them a fake name then she had to have opened her mouth to speak. Even if she claimed that she was fucking Pablo Escobar that should have been enough right there to clue them into the fact that she was lying.

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 6:31 PM. Reason : .]

1/5/2012 6:17:21 PM

have you ever been to Columbia or met any Columbians? they don't all look the same, and neither do african americans, there is not a stereotype that fits races enough to judge anybody by their appearance and definitively know what race they are.

How were they supposed to know she was a teen? for all you know she was working the streets as a hooker or was working somewhere where you have to be 18, hence the fake ID, and so in her surroundings/ in her dress she may have appeared older. I know people who look 10 years older than their age, and I know a 4'11" who looks like she is 12 and has no boobs and she is 22. My 24 yrs old friend is still carded for 'R' movies, and when you say you look like an 'african american' your employer will call you racist and to hurry up and deport the foreign fugitive convicted of who knows what crime.

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 6:29 PM. Reason : .]

1/5/2012 6:27:15 PM

i've been to columbia, but not colombia.

i am colombian, btw. bet yall didn't know THAT

1/5/2012 6:30:01 PM

I'm not talking about her appearance, but the sound of her voice. You don't need a degree in linguistics to know that a black girl from New Orleans doesn't sound like a Colombian woman.

Oh, and I'm a 30 year old mother of two who is still carded for cigarettes and beer.

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 6:34 PM. Reason : .]

1/5/2012 6:30:37 PM

lol

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"They should do this more often"

1/5/2012 6:38:12 PM

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"so you sick fucks don't have any problem shipping a child to Columbia and dumping her on the streets? got it"

Seriously this. Come on Seth LeDown, let's blow this popsicle stand.

1/5/2012 6:42:21 PM

Weak trolling by bottombaby?

Come on, son

1/5/2012 6:45:42 PM

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"Uhm, has anyone considered the fact that she was a 14 year old African American teenager and not a 22 year old Colombian? "

I know right? Everyone knows that there are only black people in America and Africa!

1/5/2012 7:19:51 PM

Whatever method they use to determine that just because I have the same name as another person who has a warrant out for there arrest that I am not that person just because we have the same name should have been employed.

I'm sure they use pictures, ID, Fingerprints and evidence and shit.

1/5/2012 7:30:39 PM

she wanted to run away

got further than most

1/5/2012 7:32:28 PM

I can only wonder if they found it suspicious that she had no Colombian accent. moreover, did they even check to see if she had a hat, a mule, and a sack of coffee? but, yeah, the voice probably should have been a bit of a giveaway

1/5/2012 7:36:51 PM

Thank you, someone finally understands the point of what I was saying.

Black girl from the south does not SOUND like a person from South America.

1/5/2012 7:42:05 PM

Sounds like the next Home Alone sequel just wrote itself.

1/5/2012 7:46:53 PM

Weird. Deportation isn't an instant thing. It's not like they nab you one day and then ship you off the next. She'd run away so surely her family had filed a missing persons report when they realized she wasn't coming back.

So if she'd given any of them her real name and they'd actually looked it up on the computer, the whole thing would have been over in a few hours.

Either she didn't ever tell them who she was, or they just didn't listen to her. If it's the former then she's a stupid teenager who hopefully won't do that again, if it's the latter then it's lawsuit time!

1/5/2012 7:50:01 PM

I also think it should have raised some red flags that the girl only spoke english...

1/5/2012 7:51:42 PM

that is pretty weird. I am really wondering what the girl said when they told her about the deportation. Was she mute, or did she say that is not me? It is really sad that it happened either way, but we don't actually know what happened.


the only thing I can come up with is they thought she was attempting to blend in and picked up a southern accent to help stay in the country?

Even then, that is pretty weak, so I guess I am now convinced something weird/fucked up happened that actually led to her being placed in Colombia... hmm

also, previously wrote Columbia out of habit, sorry, Colombia.

1/5/2012 7:56:53 PM

They may have told her in Spanish.

1/5/2012 8:06:46 PM

^ that is still weak, she would have spoken English at some point, and someone would have noticed.... at least when she saw the boat or plane they were about to force her on

1/5/2012 8:08:23 PM

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"I can only wonder if they found it suspicious that she had no Colombian accent. moreover, did they even check to see if she had a hat, a mule, and a sack of coffee? but, yeah, the voice probably should have been a bit of a giveaway "

LOL

there are plenty of illegal immigrants who grew up here.

1/5/2012 8:08:54 PM

I may be wrong, but I thought they do not deport children brought into the country. Also the alias she was using had a warrant, therefore was was in Colombia at an age old enough to commit a crime that brought about a warrant, obviously I do not know the laws in Colombia or how warrants work, but that shit doesn't add up

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 8:13 PM. Reason : or was it a crime in the US?? there needs to be more details.]

1/5/2012 8:11:45 PM

I saw some special on 60 Minutes about how ridiculous those holding places are for people about to be deported. Totally overcrowded and disorganized--accusations of all kinds of abuse, as well.

I imagine she may have been scared. Also, she could have been ambivalent about her future; a lot of people go through periods of not giving a crap, and things can happen during those periods that are pretty darn big, but you don't really care until later.

It's a very fascinating story. I kind of have a rosy outlook on it: I think it's impressive that, at 14 and 15, she lived in a whole other country on her own for so long. But goodness knows what happened to her...still, people are resilient, and runaways typically don't have the best outcomes anyway, but they don't necessarily have the best outcomes at "home" either.

Also, total PWNT on her parents. She totally got them back for their divorce. LOL

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 8:30 PM. Reason : ]

1/5/2012 8:27:31 PM

She assumed and maintained the identity of a 22 year old Colombian who had a criminal record and an arrest warrant. At no point during her stay with ICE did she refute any of this, probably because she's an idiot teenager who didn't want to get sent home.

Assuming, of course, this is all accurate.

How about we ask why this girl chose a life in Colombia as opposed to going back to her American parents whose idea of tracking their runaway daughter was to stalk her friends on Facebook.

1/5/2012 8:28:39 PM

^ that is why I initially was not surprised it happened, they have no order to deporting people. Still sketchy though.

I thought it also was a good life experience, she lived abroad for a whole year.... that is pretty intense for a teen, and she will probably not take it for granted again.

1/5/2012 8:30:27 PM

It wasn't even her parents who were looking for her, but her grandmother.

And she's only been in Colombia since April.

1/5/2012 8:31:51 PM

I'm sure she probably didn't mind the free plane trip at the time, I don't really have sympathy for her in the regard.

But i don't see how you can saw the authorities didn't screw up. This points out yet another systemically (i.e. unintentionally) racist system. If this were a white girl, she would have been questioned more, and someone might have bothered to check missing persons reports. They just wouldn't have said "oh you say you're <insert name>, well off to Colombia!!!"

1/5/2012 8:35:25 PM

And she got arrested in November. What's the deal with them having an illegal immigrant criminal in custody for 4-5 months

Oh so Colombians are never white? Come on, son

[Edited on January 5, 2012 at 8:39 PM. Reason : weak sauce]

1/5/2012 8:39:06 PM

^^I mean, it is a kind of a "racial" issue, but mainly because there aren't a lot of "white" women from Latin America. And by "white," I mean women with blonde hair, blue eyes, or fair complexions. My dark-haired white friend with an olive complexion gets mistaken for Latina routinely to the extent that people automatically speak Spanish to her. So I imagine she might slip through cracks of something like this, as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is...this is actually less about race and more about our overzealous, aggressive, and disorganized deportation initiatives.

1/5/2012 8:54:04 PM