WTF??? a 14 year old **American** girl is deported to Bogata and is now in jail there??????

[CreekDog]

175. they should verify that you are who they *think* you are

maybe they cannot identify her, but they can identify that the suspect IS NOT her.

otherwise, they can just deport people with the names of criminals.

there are people here who have the same name as criminals and criminals who have no legal right to be in the USA.

if they're as careless about folks in here with that issue, then those people, those DUers can be just as easily deported.

yes, a law enforcement agency that routinely thinks people are lying to it anyway, should do a bit of checking before doing something major, by accident, like oh, DEPORTING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN CHILD who doesn't speak Spanish to a Spanish speaking nation, thinking she was an adult a decade older who was a native of that country.

a minimum level of checking either the child or the person she was purported to be would've revealed something to indicate they were about to make a major mistake.

but no matter, a girl's life may have been ruined and you and I will probably pay for it in big ways financially --all because they couldn't do a minimum of checking to see if she was who she said she was.