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    Missing Texas Teenager Was Accidentally Deported to Colombia

    Missing Texas Teenager Was Accidentally Deported to Colombia

    A 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in 2010 was mistakenly deported to Colombia, despite being an American citizen who doesn't speak Spanish. According to a report from WFAA in Dallas, she had been living and working in South America for nearly nine months before immigration officials were alerted to the mix-up.

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    Jakadrien Turner ran away from her Dallas home after her parents' divorce in the fall of 2010 and eventually made her way to Houston, where she was arrested for shoplifting. Turner reportedly gave police a fake name that happened to belong to a 22-year-old immigrant who had warrants for her arrest. (One immigration official disputed that claim, which actually makes the error even more egregious.) At that point, immigration officials stepped in, taking Turner's fingerprints, but never confirming her identity before sending her "back" to Colombia. Though Turner had no family or connections of any kind, government officials in that country gave her a work permit and sent her on her way. That was in April of last year.

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    Turner's grandmother, with the help of Dallas police, managed to eventually track the girl down using Facebook. She's now in custody in Colombia at the request of the U.S., but at this point officials there have refused to released her. (Oh, and she might also be pregnant.)

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    The case demonstrates a stunning break down of the already maligned federal immigration system. Even the President will reportedly get a briefing on the matter this week, as those who question the ability of ICE to do its job properly will certainly be up in arms. Even though some of her Facebook posts suggest that she may have encouraged the belief that Colombia was her home, the fact than any U.S. citizen could actually be deported is quite disturbing.

     
    • Gary in Houston  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      The country is spelled COLOMBIA. The District is spelled COLUMBIA. The editor of this article should be deported for "no speekle eenglish."

      By the way though, the INS is still screwed up.
      • A Yahoo! User 4 mths ago
        Not a big deal it wasn't in caps, they're just Mexicans with long necks.
      • Scortch Dearth 4 mths ago
        It's not the INS!!!!...it's the ICE!!!
      • Swinny 4 mths ago
        There are many contries that are spelled in American English that do not equal the spelling of the particular country.
    • Casey  •  4 mths ago
      Could someone please proof read these before publishing?
    • jen  •  San Diego, California  •  4 mths ago
      Wow, didn't anyone edit or proof read this article? "Even though some her facebook posts" and "Though Turner had family or connections of any kind" is shameful writing! No author should be able to graduate from college with grammar this terrible, and certainly not anyone with hopes of working in journalism. If a journalist can't make their point, then they have failed their readers and, honestly, shouldn't be working in the journalism profession. The writer completely hacked an important story with confusing sentences and innacurate use of the English language. Ack!
      • James 4 mths ago
        I think you meant inaccurate. I agree with you, otherwise.
      • Sharnhorse 4 mths ago
        and also "Columbia" ...vs "Colombia". Columbia is the university in NYC
      • MobGal 4 mths ago
        I'm a univ. prof. "Graduates" of high schools come to us with the inability to write correctly ALL the time. It's absolutely pathetic. We've had to implement a "writing across the curriculum" aspect to our program so they are forced to learn how to write correctly. It helps absolutely NONE of them, but gives us profs even more to grade. (The papers have more of MY ink color on them than theirs!) Sorry world, we're trying!
    • old woman  •  4 mths ago
      Sounds like the old Cheech movie, "Born in East LA".
      • P H 4 mths ago
        yea it does lol
      • J 4 mths ago
        What is the name of the current US President?????
    • OldsRagtop  •  Round Rock, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      This article appears to have been written by someone in Junior High School. Journalistic standards sure have dropped on Yahoo.
      • Don 4 mths ago
        The Atlantic Wire, NOT Yahoo.
      • Detritus of Sloth 4 mths ago
        stop dissin' junior high!
      • ScorpioJax 4 mths ago
        Even a junior high student could see that this article was written by someone with the Atlantic Wire and not Yahoo! by the byline and the huge banner above the byline. Newswire articles and bylines have been around for over 150 years since the AP was first formed, These are automatically posted by computers and will appear exactly the same on CBS, CNN, and Yahoo! errors and all. How did you even get out of junior high not knowing this?
    • Rat Carcass  •  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  •  4 mths ago
      So the U.S. isn't the only country that will give a work permit to illegals.
      • Carlos 4 mths ago
        I think she was presented to them as Colombian.
      • JOHN 4 mths ago
        We Americans we are people from round the globe.First USA president was Englishman,George Wasshington.
      • JOHN 4 mths ago
        Real Americans live in reservation.Who created reservations for natives so call Indians? Europeans colonialist and Europeans settlers.
    • Julie  •  Everett, Washington  •  4 mths ago
      The editor of the article should be deported.
    • Krazee-Eyez Killa  •  4 mths ago
      When I read the title I thought she was deported to Columbia University! But then I realized the editors don't know the difference between Colombia the country and Columbia, which could be British Columbia, a Canadian province or the Ivy League university in New York City.
    • susu  •  4 mths ago
      Anyone noticing the bad grammar in more and more articles?
    • Captain_ron  •  Corpus Christi, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      My eyes rolled so much while reading this article it gave me a headache. Sounds like shes perfectly fine wheres shes at. Job, reading to settle down and have a family. Why ruin a good thing right? leave her there.... (btw, if INS wants to "accidentally" deport me, then please deport me to Germany so I can drive down the autobahn and scratch that off my bucket list)
    • marshhawk  •  Louisville, Kentucky  •  4 mths ago
      Partly her fault for not telling ICE or anyone else that she was under the age of 18 and she was a runaway.
    • CALI  •  Stafford, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      where is COLUMBIA???????????????????????????????????????????
    • Barry  •  Colorado Springs, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      The expulsion of a US citizen to a foreign country is one example of a system that is out of control there's enough illegals here to keep you busy.
    • James  •  Charlottesville, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      The editor of the article should be deported to "Columbia."
    • badboy88  •  Herndon, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      Its not Columbia!, Its COLOMBIA!!!
    • Gator  •  Branford, Connecticut  •  4 mths ago
      People ! she lied. she got deported. end of story. sounds like she's doing fine down there.
    • James Loganwolf  •  Lower Salem, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      And yet thousands of illegal immigrants gather outside Home Depots across the land . INS can easily round em up , but that would be too much like work . Ironically there are a bunch standing outside Lowes that would do it for 5 bucks .
    • wipemy****  •  Bellevue, Washington  •  4 mths ago
      She should be arrested for falsely using the government resources to get a free trip to South America!
    • Not Treshawn  •  4 mths ago
      I dont see how it is the fault of the INS, when she gave a fake name. Maybe you should not be a stupid fu(king person.
    • Ryuk  •  4 mths ago
      Looks like she screwed herself by being a thief.
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