African-American Teen Missing Since 2010 Mistakenly Deported To Colombia - TheGrio

[WillyT]

African-American teen missing since 2010 mistakenly deported to Colombia
By Alexis Garrett Stodghill - TheGrio
1:28 PM on 01/04/2012



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An African-American teen from Dallas who has been missing since 2010 was found to have been wrongfully deported to Colombia, area outlet News 8 reports. Jakadrien Turner was mistakenly deported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) in April of 2011 after being arrested as a teen runaway.

The troubled youth had fled her family at the age of 14 under duress caused by the death of her grandfather and her parents' divorce. Having made her way to Houston, Jakadrien was brought into police custody for theft, where she gave a fake name. That name coincidentally belonged to a Colombian illegal immigrant who had warrants out for her arrest.

Jakadrien's grandmother, Lorene Turner, had been looking for her granddaughter ever since she left the family fold, seemingly having vanished into thin air. Staying up many late nights for months searching on Facebook, Turner credits messages on the social network for aiding her discovery of her granddaughter's location. She also received help from Dallas police.

Turner alerted U.S. authorities after discovering that Jakadrien had been working as a cleaner in Colombia. The Colombian government had given her a work card upon her arrival there. After being informed by American authorities, Colombian officials took Jakadrien into custody where she has been waiting for a month in detention. It has also been discovered that the African-American teen is pregnant.

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[sofa king]

1. The automatic-anchor-baby is a nice twist.

Wonder how this story is trending on the knuckledragger boards?

[Justice wanted]

2. Don't mean to be racist BUT IF a white girl had given the same name would they have deported her?

[WillyT]

4. Not Racist... Great Question...

[EFerrari]

3. ICE has been out of control for years now. nt

[WillyT]

5. Yep... And We Deported A Pregnant 14 Year Old American Citizen... I'm SO Fucking Proud...

of this country... NOT !!!





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[whistler162]

7. I believe they are trying to bring back a

now pregnant teenage runaway.

Problems with I.C.E. chekcing the id's of possible illegals and the teenager giving a false name.

But keep up the rage!

[WillyT]

9. Damned Right I'll Rage...

This SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE !!!

The family should have NEVER had to go though this.

They FUCKING FLEW HER DOWN TO COLOMBIA ???

What if it was your daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, friend ???

[Dawson Leery]

6. Shame.

[Starry Messenger]

8. ICE is a thuggish organization of storm troopers.

They need to be dissolved.

[HipChick]

10. There is much more to this story....Read at Link...and the reason she's still being held in Colombia

http://gawker.com/5873138/teen-girl-mistakenly-deported-now-trapped-in-foreign-prison-and-pregnant

Well, I think you know that I work as an immigration/DV attorney for legal aid in Austin and south Texas. We were actually brought in to consult on this, and I honestly can't say everything I know, but what I can say is that almost everything in the linked news stories is bullshit. I'm not going to get into victim blaming, because ICE obviously did not do its due diligence here. But Jakadrien engineered almost everything that happened, and the grandmother's declaration that she ran away because she was "distraught over the loss of her grandfather and her parents’ divorce" is a complete fabrication.

Here's what I know, or at least what I'd be allowed to say.

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.

[WillyT]

11. And All That May Be True... BUT SHE WAS SENT TO COLOMBIA !!!

There is NO WAY ANYBODY should be dumped into a foreign country without DUE PROCESS.

PERIOD!

[metalbot]

13. What part of due process was she denied?

Based on the story, she claimed to be an illegal alien. There's an immigration hearing, and then a deportation...

[WillyT]

14. She's A 14 Year Old American... ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ???

Lovely to know how America is rotting from the inside.

[flamingdem]

12. The details are rather important here

but it is hard to believe they thought she was Colombian but probably had no Spanish and was clearly American, unless she kept quiet.

[XemaSab]

15. I don't care how big of a POS her alleged boyfriend was

When Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped, had someone said "Oh, her boyfriend is a drug dealer," would everyone have gone "Oh well, we'll stop looking for her then; she keeps bad company, so who cares?"