A closing thought on the matter of the 14 year old deported to Colombia . . .

[suffragette]

100. It looks like she had already been using that name in working as a DJ

after she ran away as best I can piece from articles:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/05/us/texas-colombia-teen/index.html
Grandmother Lorene Turner said she then started following Jakadrien's best friend on Facebook. She eventually tracked her granddaughter to Houston, where she worked at a club under the name Tika Cortez. Johnisa Turner said she saw Jakadrien's face on the marquee on her birthday.

So, she could have been told to use the name if caught or just been already using it and stuck to it. Either way, it seems to be a specific name someone likely told/suggested/convinced her to use. And good point about the Colombian national.


It seems to be that ICE with all the tools at their disposal (and at least up here in WA) an ever expanding budget and expanding area of work (without attendant regulatory responsibility) has as a central part of their traditional work the responsibility to determine identity. She's far from the first person to give ICE an assumed name. And it does raise the question of whether this has happened to others who don't have a grandmother who did not give up, kept looking and kept both asking for help from different agencies and contacting them with info she found through her persistent search.