Ghost
Thu Jan 5th, 2012, 02:14 PM
There is a history of U.S. citizens who were accidentally deported (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2009/06/16/175487/immigration-citizen-deportation/) by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, and thousands of American citizens have been illegally detained as the federal government cracks down on undocumented immigrants. Now comes the story of a Texas teenager (http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Dallas-Teen-Is--Mistakenly-Deported--136626533.html?gallery=y&img=0&c=y) who is a citizen and was still deported. Dallas resident Lorene Turner had been searching (http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Dallas-Teen-Is--Mistakenly-Deported--136626533.html?gallery=y&img=0&c=y) for her granddaughter Jakadrien Turner since she ran away from home at the age of 14 in fall 2010. She searched for months until Dallas police helped her locate her granddaughter — in the South American country of Colombia, it turns out. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had deported Jakadrien (http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Dallas-Teen-Is--Mistakenly-Deported--136626533.html) in April 2011, even though the African American teenager spoke no Spanish
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/05/397705/teenager-mistakenly-deported/
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/05/397705/teenager-mistakenly-deported/