Family demands answers after Texas teen mistakenly deported to Colombia

This story is baffling to me. I cannot understand for the life of me how a person can get deported without proper identification being made. Was this an attempt to just write off another black child? I am truly disgusted by this part of our system. I hope whomever is ultimately responsible is held accountable. I am glad that this story is getting some national attention. A couple of days ago, the officials in Colombia had stated that they would not be sending her back. So I guess we will have to wait and see.

A Dallas teenager who ran away from home more than a year ago somehow wound up deported to Colombia after U.S. authorities mistook the girl, who lacked identification, for a Colombian national.

Now her family is demanding to know why immigration authorities deported the now-15-year-old teen -- a U.S. citizen with no knowledge of Spanish -- and why they simply took her at her word when she gave them a fake name.

The family of Jakadrien Turner had been searching for her since she ran away in the fall of 2010. Her grandmother scoured Facebook looking for the girl, viewing Jakadrien's friends' pages for any information.

"There's no words," her mother, Johnisa Turner, told CNN of the ordeal. "It hasn't been easy at all."

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