Dallas teen missing since 2010 was mistakenly deported

DALLAS - “It’s very frustrating,” Lorene Turner said.
 
She has spent hours on Facebook trying to find her granddaughter, Jakadrien.

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.

There are still many unanswered questions about how an African-American girl who speaks no Spanish is mistaken for a foreign national. 

(Source: coeus)