Comments about ‘American citizens get tangled up in immigration enforcement’

**The grandmother called the deportation "a big mistake somebody made."**

That somebody was the teenage girl who was old enough to know that lying in court is a bad idea. Working hard as a housekeeper isn't the worst punishment anyone ever got for lying.

So the daughter thought that Columbia was better than telling her parents she shoplifted?

Makes you wonder how many of these citizen deportations are escaping legal action or trying to discredit our government?

Really glad for social media on this one. Get the girl back to her family. Teens often do very irrational things. In the frustration of dealing with such acts, adults can get pretty some interesting ideas themselves.
The grandmother complains the girl was sent to Columbia without a "passport or anything." That is the point. When a person is here illegally or testifies in court they are here illegally, they don't get a passport as are returned to the country they claim they are from. Who was suppose to give her a passport, her pretend country or her country of citizenship of which she wanted a fast and sure exit from, at least at that point in time?
The government did the best they could with the information they had.

Its time for ICE to get real, why should deprotation be treated so criminal, its merely a transfer of POW's to their own country. Rather than prosecute justice can be served with kindness, just detain, identify as AKA's, and deport complete families without arrests or trial. POW's are not prosecuted so why prosecute illegal aliens occupying this country and in the process of being sent home as undesirable POW's? Illegal aliens have no rights to trial, as POW's they can be returned. Separating children born of illegal aliens is not justification to keep them from their parents, in fact its child kidnapping.

If its such an issue why don't they revoke the childs birthrights, which ICE does have the power to do, or allow children to volunteer to leave? When children become of age and accountable children can apply to return to the US as legal assets to this country. It is unfair to these families that children are not allowed to leave the country with their parents. If parents refuse to take their children, throw the parents in a Mexican jails as child abusers.

Dumb girl and hope she will get her act together. But Dumber to ICE and OBAMA for not use better stratagy.

With the thousand of people who are in this country illegally, who give false information to those who ask and who change names and identification at will, ICE would need many more officers to investigate the illegals they pick up. This teen, for whatever reason, chose to lie in court to a judge knowing what would happen. The only person to blame is the girl herself. The real problem is those who come to this country illegally, take advantage to all the services from schooling to medical care and then blame ICE for deporting them. They are the ones who are breaking the laws.

I read somewhere else she worked at a call center and was located in Colombia because of her facebook account with a fake identity. If she had a facebook account over there, then she was not having a hard time as the article says. It looks to me she tried to get out of the theft charges on what she thought it was the easy way.

My question would be, how many people have used the same process to leave(i.e. leave undetected), that weren't suppose to be here and should have be caught trying to leave.

For the last time, it's C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A. With an "O" not a u. There is Columbia University and Columbia, South Carolina but in South America it is Colombia.

I am just glad that she is safe and back and hope that she gets the help she needs.

Yes she did lie to get out of trouble, but the ball should not have been droped.

It is lucky she did not end up Dead or in a Brothol.

If she was White and spoke only English you would not be saying some of the things you have said.

Then if she was as described above she would not have fallen through the cracks.

I like Awe amd just glad she is safe.

"Deported by MISTAKE"?

>> The teen's grandmother, Lorene Turner, helped Dallas police track down the teen using social media. She asserted ICE "didn't do their work."

"How do you deport a 15-year-old and send her to Colombia without a passport ... without anything?" she said.

Sorry, somehow my comment posted incompletely.

Continued:

WHAT mistake? She lied to the police about her identity, age, and citizenship status. What U.S. citizen in their right mind, even a 15 year old who may not exactly be Little Miss Einstein, falsely claims to be an undocumented immigrant?

She has something in common with the poor kid who brandished a pellet gun at school in Texas and ended up being killed by the police. They're both 15 years old, both haven't got any common sense, and both need to learn that if you want to play adult games, you need to be prepared for adult consequences.

One estimate has it that 1 percent of those detained and deported are American citizens, with 20,000 being wrongfully deported since 2003.

REF: DEW | 9:38 a.m. Jan. 7, 2012
Sandy, UT

Dumb girl and hope she will get her act together. But Dumber to ICE and OBAMA for not use better stratagy.

Why the Obama bashing since this ICE stratagy (actually spelled strategy) has been in place long before Obama was elected President?

Don't like in court!!! Secondly, and funnily, she couldn't speak a word of spanish, and thirdly, she got what she deserved! Glad she got back where she belongs.