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Jakadrien Turner : Dallas teen mistakenly deported to Colombia will return home
Jakadrien Turner, the 15-year-old Dallas girl who was mistakenly deported to Colombia after giving a false name will be handed over to U.S. officials Friday, the Colombian foreign ministry announced.
Jakadrien Turner, the 15-year-old Dallas girl who was mistakenly deported to Colombia after giving a false name will be handed over to U.S. officials Friday, the Colombian foreign ministry announced.
What happened to Jakadrien Turner?
Jakadrien Turner ran away from home in the fall of 2010 following her parents divorce and the death of her grandfather. She ended up in Houston, where she was arrested for theft. The girl gave police a fake name, which apparently belonged to a 22-year-old undocumented persoms from Colombia, who had warrants for her arrest.
Colombia’s foreign ministry stated they would transfer Jakadrien to representatives from the U.S. embassy in the capital Bogota so she could be transported back to Dallas.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement that at no time during criminal proceedings against Jakadrien was her identity determined to be false.
Although Jakadrien is coming home, her family still wants to know why the U.S. authorities did not question her fictitious back-story further.
The ICE said that the research it ran did not provide any information that suggested she had assumed a false identity.
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