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In reply to the discussion: A closing thought on the matter of the 14 year old deported to Colombia . . . [View all]Scairp
(2,749 posts)Her lie has ZERO to do with how she ended up in Columbia. Not obvious to me. What is obvious is the inability for someone like you to understand this child told a lie to federal authorities and they weren't bright enough to figure it out and send her to children's services or contact her family before railroading her to Columbia. You clearly have never had teenage girls who lie. If a mom can determine that teenagers are lying about something, then why in the hell couldn't these officials at immigration figure it out? Again, her lie has NO part in this. She is a kid. She had nothing to back her lie. They had no proof she was the person who's name she was pretending to be, that the name was hers and it seems they made no attempt to find out who she actually was before shipping her to Columbia. Any doctor could have told them she was a teenager and any skilled interrogator could have gotten the truth out of her. And why in the hell did Columbia take her, with no documentation proving she was an adult citizen who had been deported back there? Stuff went wrong down there too but our system is the real problem. And who cares what she wanted? Kids do stupid shit like this. They get a story in their heads and they stick to it. No way. You don't get away with saying her lie is the catalyst here. Something else is going on and it has fuck all to do with a child lying.