ICE Mistakenly Deports Dallas Teen Who Speaks No Spanish to Colombia

From ColorLines.com - An 14 year old African-American girl who speaks no Spanish was mistakenly deported to Colombia by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in April of 2011. And now Colombia isn’t releasing her. Jakadrien Turner was 14 and distraught over the loss of her grandfather and her parents’ divorce and ran away from her Dallas home, according to KHOU. Somehow she ended up in Houston, where she was arrested by Houston police for theft. She gave authorities a fake name and when police ran that name, authorities learned it belonged to a 22-year-old undocumented immigrant from Colombia who had warrants for her arrest. Read more
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