15 y.o. Child Accidentally Deported?

[LejaOMG]

Peep:

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?"

News 8 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 for her arrest.

So ICE officials stepped in.

News 8 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.

Video: www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Dallas-Teen-Is--Mistakenly-Deported--136626533.html




Thoughts?

[Chal™]

How? I mean, it's bad enough that they won't send her home, but what kind of slacker work place thing do they have going on that it even got this far? Why did she even make it out of the country?

[LejaOMG]

Maybe it's just me and my immigration lawyer ways, but I don't believe not ONE word of this article outside of "this child exists and for some reason, she is in Colombia."

I have LOTS of questions:

1. WhenTF did ICE start deporting people overnight?

2. How and why does she have a job? Explain fully.

3. She’s pregnant? How y’all know?

4. Where is the REAL Maria Acevedo? How, if at all, did anyone legitimately believe that she and Jakadrian were the same person?

5. Facebook, eh? Twitter too? I need screenshots.

7. What efforts, if any, did she make to rectify her situation once in Colombia? The answer is telling of much else.

8. to whom was she released in Colombia?

9. in whose custody is she presently? No, don’t just tell me “the Colombian Government.” As we know, Colombian government officials are notoriously corrupt. Tell me the name of a division, agency head, somebody. Which human can I sit down with to ask questions about this child’s situation?

10. How in the fcuk did she get internet access? Regular folks walking around the streets of Bucaramango do NOT have broadband.

[Chal™]

Ok, I slick chuckled at #10, but these are all valid questions. I smell a cover-up. They would have to tell me far more than what they are giving out. The information seems rehearsed, as if everyone has been briefed on what to say when questioned.

[QUIET As Kept]

I got the impression from the first article that she was on work duty...like some sort of prison alternative. But I could be making that up.

Jan 5, 2012 11:44:15 GMT -5 LejaOMG said:

2. How and why does she have a job? Explain fully.

Another article claimed she's believed to be pregnant.

3. She’s pregnant? How y’all know?

I'm so mad at you for using the name folks gave her on VSB! lol

4. Where is the REAL Maria Acevedo?

Yeah...I saw what is supposedly her Facebook page. Ummmmm...yeah...I have absolutely no words....there definitely has to be a LOT more to this story.

5. Facebook, eh? Twitter too? I need screenshots.

[LejaOMG]

It was I who named her "Maria Acevedo" on VSB, lol

[LejaOMG]

The internet streets have emerged a story that attempts to fill in some of the blanks. Read for yourself and decide whether you bang with any of it:

1) She didn’t leave home because she was distraught over grandpa. She had a MUCH MUCH older boyfriend who was a drug dealer/gangbanger in Houston. After a fight with her family over the boyfriend, drugs, and how much school she’d been skipping, she left Dallas to be with the boyfriend. It wasn’t made clear to me whether he took her to Houston or she followed him there.

2) There was some sort of fight/split with the boyfriend in Houston. No one is really sure right now if he’s the father of the baby or if she got pregnant in Colombia. The boyfriend is in his late-20s/early-30s, previously arrested on suspicion of homicide in the mid-aughts but later released. A real piece of shit, which maybe also explains why he has no compunctions about fucking a 14-year-old.

3) The fake name she gave? That’s someone Jakadrien knows who worked as a drug mule/dealer in Houston. The real woman was an associate of the boyfriend. Jakadrien did not pick the name at random, but I don’t think Jakadrien knew that this woman had warrants either.

4) Jakadrien did everything possible to avoid giving away her real identity. She was not only afraid of telling her family about the baby and that she had continued to see the drug-dealing boyfriend, but she’d also pissed off associates of the boyfriend in Houston who had some serious gang associations. Like cartel sort of gang associations. After she was picked up, she lied every single step of the way. Had she said at any point that she was a US citizen, she could have brought this whole thing to a halt.

It’s still horrible that she’s pregnant and stuck in a Colombian prison, obviously. But this is the real story behind whatever the media ends up printing.

[QUIET As Kept]

LOL #ninjas

Jan 5, 2012 13:24:51 GMT -5 LejaOMG said:

It was I who named her "Maria Acevedo" on VSB, lol

[QUIET As Kept]

Ummmm...she's been in Colombia for 8 or 9 months....if she's indeed pregnant, I don't think there can be any question as to where she was when it happened!

And re: ICEs efforts to ID her...they need more people. You're trying to tell me that when it comes to possibly sending to people to third world nations who may or may not have hostile diplomatic relationships with the US, the only way they confirm a person's ID is to ask them their name??? GTFOOH


Beyond that, this would definitely fill in some of the holes from the original story

Jan 5, 2012 14:03:30 GMT -5 LejaOMG said:

The internet streets have emerged a story that attempts to fill in some of the blanks. Read for yourself and decide whether you bang with any of it:

1) She didn’t leave home because she was distraught over grandpa. She had a MUCH MUCH older boyfriend who was a drug dealer/gangbanger in Houston. After a fight with her family over the boyfriend, drugs, and how much school she’d been skipping, she left Dallas to be with the boyfriend. It wasn’t made clear to me whether he took her to Houston or she followed him there.

2) There was some sort of fight/split with the boyfriend in Houston. No one is really sure right now if he’s the father of the baby or if she got pregnant in Colombia. The boyfriend is in his late-20s/early-30s, previously arrested on suspicion of homicide in the mid-aughts but later released. A real piece of shit, which maybe also explains why he has no compunctions about fucking a 14-year-old.

3) The fake name she gave? That’s someone Jakadrien knows who worked as a drug mule/dealer in Houston. The real woman was an associate of the boyfriend. Jakadrien did not pick the name at random, but I don’t think Jakadrien knew that this woman had warrants either.

4) Jakadrien did everything possible to avoid giving away her real identity. She was not only afraid of telling her family about the baby and that she had continued to see the drug-dealing boyfriend, but she’d also pissed off associates of the boyfriend in Houston who had some serious gang associations. Like cartel sort of gang associations. After she was picked up, she lied every single step of the way. Had she said at any point that she was a US citizen, she could have brought this whole thing to a halt.

It’s still horrible that she’s pregnant and stuck in a Colombian prison, obviously. But this is the real story behind whatever the media ends up printing.

[Oldskool]

Her mom was interviewed on my local news last night. I am still confused as to how this is an actual story and not a movie on LMN that has a potentially good ending.

[Rare_Commodity]

Yeah this was crazy. CNN reports she is suppose to be coming home today.

[LejaOMG]

Another article emerges, reporting that Jakadrien is headed home.

Peep: content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/cnn-runaway-dallas-teen-deported-to-colombia-heads-home/1

CNN quotes U.S. State Department spokesman William Ostick as saying Turner left Colombia at mid-morning. He noted that the U.S. Embassy in Bogota worked closely with Colombian officials as well as authorities in Texas to resolve the case.

This photo of Jakadrien Turner, 15, of Dallas, was posted on the website of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. She was mistakenly deported to Colombia last year after giving authorities a fake name. During hours of interviews with U.S. immigration officials, police and Colombian officials, Turner stuck by her story and her identity.

Her family had no idea as to her whereabouts.

She was finally located by her determined grandmother, Lorene Turner, who kept following clues and messages on her Facebook page until she tracked her down in South America, WFAA-TV in Dallas reported.

Jakadrien, who is pregnant, was given a job and citizenship in Bogota by Colombian authorities who continued to believe her false story.

The Colombian government says the teen had been working in a call center when Dallas police located her and alerted U.S and Colombian officials, the Associated Press reports.

WFAA reports that Colombian officials said Thursday night that they would turn her over to the U.S. Embassy today.

"Oh, I feel good," her grandmother, Lorene Turner, tells WFAA. "It was worth it. All the wrinkles under my eyes. I've aged. Look like I'm 80 now. But it's all right. It's OK."

[LejaOMG]

This provides no clarity to me. In fact, I have even more inquiries:

1. How do you mean she was "given citizenship" in Bogota? Maria Acevedo was a Colombian national. If she had to be granted citizenship, does that not mean that somebody in Colombia realized that Jakadrien was NOT who she said she was? I need to see an authenticated copy of that documentation

2. She was given a job in a call center? First of all how does that work? Maria Acevedo was a wanted woman both in the US AND in Colombia. Once she was "apprehended," why was she rewarded with a job rather than a jail sentence or fine? At least one of those clauses is incorrect. Also, in her FB communication, she reportedly claimed that her job was to clean a big house til the wee hours of the morning. Was she given this job as well? Finally, her Espanol must have been IMPECCABLE to hold down a job in a freaking call center. Earlier reports say that she spoke no Spanish. Even if she kicked it around Bogota for the past 9 months, I find that level of advancement highly unlikely.

3. She's pregnant? How pregnant? And how does that jive with earlier reports that she hid her whereabout from her family so because she was "scared to tell them about the baby." What baby? How many are there/have there been?

4. So was she ever in Colombian governmental custody? If so, for how long? Somebody needs to explain how, why and by whom this child is pregnant.

ETA: I learned that some American companies utilize call centers in Latin America, including Colombia.
www.nice.com/content/contact-center-americas-leading-outsourcer-colombia-chooses-nice-call-center-solutions-provi

[Oldskool]

She's baaaaaaccck! Reunion wasn't what the media expected.....to somber. hmmm

[123Diva]

This story is cray.
#tisall