WOW, just WOW!! Our Federal tax dollars at work!!!!

I guess for today here in Texas we have one in, one out and one down!!

BTW, why deport her? Hell there are 12 million illegals here already.

Obama's lacking & ignorant employee's........there you go, that explains it.

I thought all the politicians were refusing to enforce immigration laws and are suing the states that try to. Wasn't there many news reports saying that only the aliens with felony crime offenses were going to be deported?? Was just on a story the other day about making English the official language of the US. Well this girl could speak perfect English why didn't ICE get that?? OOPS they don't get that most of the illegals are the ones that speak little or no English!!

Thank you, Tyler.

First, we do not know why she ran away. It may have been a poor choice on her part, or there may have been abuse.

2nd-she is 15 years old. Of course she should not have lied, she is a teenager. Shocking! Teenager makes a poor choice-and one that would be somewhat understandable if there was abuse involved and she was scared.

3nd-none of the above excuses the lack of process and stream of errors that had to have taken place for her to be deported. Do we not "double check" these things?

Clerarly this girl has a lot of problems-and now a pregnancy. Rather than cursing her-maybe a few prayers in her and the baby's direction would be more appropriate.

lmfao

am i suprised a conservative decided to bring up politics 1st, then the tax dollars, like only they pay?

sure, pick n choose, call it propoganda LOLZ

bunch of internet troll party

Wrong demographic breakdown, K2. Welfare recipients by socio-economic status:

poor 90%

con artists 10%

If I were to give a false name I would go with maybe Jon Marley in hopes of being deported to Jamaica...Ya mon :^)

Typical ... propaganda.

Which part of the reporting do you consider "propaganda"? It looks like straightforward reporting: who, what, when, where, and a quote from a person of knowledge regarding a hypothetical why.

Your comment, on the other hand, resorts to name-calling, irrational appeal to the emotions, scapegoating, false 'facts', and other propagandistic tricks.

K23424049 Now please give us the breakdown as to what percentage of each group you listed is in America.....

Why she ran away is open for conjecture, but when you give a fake name you may just pick the wrong one. Lying to police about your name is a bad idea and this proves it. Mistakes happen in large operations like the INS. She is also pregnant, which doesn't exactly speak for her decision making skills. She could have gone to Social Services, but instead made difference choices. She obviously is paying for the consequences of those choices. When she returns, we will pay for her choices...by supporting a child that she is not able to provide for. Life ain't always fair....

K2:

source?

Wow, don of the rockies, you're a great example of the conservatives in this country and why they're so hated. Before you call someone idiot, maybe you should look in the mirror first....

Welfare recipients breakdown by race:

Interesting stats K2

White 38.8%
Black 39.8
Hispanic 15.7
Asian 2.4
other 3.3

Of course since whites make up 64% of the country and only 40% welfare, they are doing pretty good, right? The same with Hispanis who make up 16.3% of the country and 15.7% of welfare, and Asians who make up 4.7% of the country and 2.4% of welfare.

Of course, Blacks make up only 12.2 of the country but 39.8% of welfare cases. Go figure.

This would be very comical if it wasn't real. Yes, the girl was wrong to lie about her identity, but being a run away, it is understandable. That doesn't excuse the ADULTS who totally screwed up! The INS people responsible for this "oops", SHOULD have to pay to bring her back out of their own funds!

If you give a fake name why say Queen Elizabeth so you get diplomatic immunity

I'm a little curious about some of the comments here. Several folks believe we should have checked further. She says she is a particular person; that person happens to be an illegal and a criminal; we probably don't have fingerprints for the Colombian illegal so we have to go with the name the girl gave, and she was deported. Lynnial seem to feel this was a language issue, but the girl apparently, only spoke English. Did the girl ever say "Wait a minute. I lied and my real name is such and so!" The article doesn't say one way or the other. If she didn't, why would anyone believe she wasn't the person she said she was.

I did read somewhere that deportations were up since Pres. Obama has been in office.

I wonder how many citizens are in South America goin "WTF"?

Hey nothing is perfect ok

I guess K2 and Bker don't like blacks. Fine by me. But what use to complain about them? Do you have a solution? Might as well complain about the moon, it's not going away either. But thanks for your rays of sunlightenment. Without you I would still think the kkk are bad guys. (sarcasm).

Lying to police about your name is a bad idea

Blind,

Exile of a minor to a country she has never been to before, and one where she doesn't even speak the language, is not an approriate punishment for lying to the police about her name.

If you disagree, please cite the specific law that you believe authorizes the goverment to exile citizens based on the veracity of their responses to the local constabulary.

Police officer: "Do you know why I pulled you over?"

Speeder: "No, officer."

Police officer: "You were doing 80 and the speed limit on this stretch of highway is 55. You couldn't possibly have missed it. Since you lied to me, have fun in Tajikistan, which is where we're sending you."

Just another in a long list of ICE mistakes:

Rennison Castillo, a Washington state man who was born in Belize but took his oath of citizenship while serving in the U.S. Army in 1998, spent seven months in an ICE prison in 2006. Castillo, 33, of Lakewood, came to the United States at age 6 and later became a permanent lawful resident. He was sworn in as a citizen during his seven-year stint in the Army, which ended with his honorable discharge in 2003.

Lack of proper training of immigration inspectors resulted in their mistaken conclusion that Sharon McKnight’s passport was fraudulent. McKnight spent eight days in Jamaica before returning to New York. While there, her luggage, containing all her money, was stolen. Airport workers contributed money so she could reach family members. Once there, her mother flew to Jamaica from New York to take her case to the US consulate in Kingston. With the help of Rep. Michael Forbes (D-NY), consulate officials determined that the passport and birth certificate, which immigration officials had declared fraudulent, were in fact real, and established McKnight’s US citizenship.

When Angela Boneva, a 34 year old went to renew her passport in 2003, the State Department told her she was no longer a citizen. Boneva's father was born in Indiana, and the US consulate in Bulgaria gave her U.S. citizenship while she was growing up in Bulgaria in 1981.The State Department said that an employee at the consulate broke a rule that required her father to have lived in the U.S. for 10 years before she was born, the Tribune reported. Her father had only lived in the U.S. for six years before moving to Bulgaria.

The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months. Veloz had to prove his citizenship from behind bars. An aunt helped him track down his father's birth certificate and his own, his parents' marriage certificate, his father's school, military and Social Security records. After nine months, a judge determined that he was a citizen, but immigration authorities appealed the decision. He was detained for five more months before he found legal help and a judge ordered his case dropped.

Mr. Ibarra, 46, was born in Mexico but was raised since infancy in Arizona. In his late 20s he enlisted in the Marines and served three years on active duty, including time in Iraq, before being honorably discharged. On February 23, 2011 Department of Justice adjudicator Richard Phelps ruled in Eloy, Arizona that George Ibarra had by a preponderance of the evidence proven that he is indeed a citizen of the United States. Rather than apologize to Mr. Ibarra for previously wrongfully detaining him, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is holding Mr. Ibarra in solitary confinement at the Eloy Detention Center, in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and a memorandum requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release anyone with "probative evidence" of U.S. citizenship.

Hans Joachim Keil was arrested in Dutton in September and accused of being an illegal alien. He was an official representative of Samoa, a current Member of Parliament and a prominent businessman with many family links. He had diverted to Missouri on the way home from trade talks in Brussels where he represented Samoa. “They were going to lock me up for five years plus five years. Five years for impersonating a US citizen and five years for using an illegal US passport. On the day of my arrest when I brought to their attention, that I served in the US military … they threw that out the window and said that I’m an illegal alien and I have no right to be in the United States. They knew I was a Samoan diplomat but they had no regard for my diplomatic passport.”

More than two months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, at least 30 survivors who were waved onto planes by Marines in the chaotic aftermath are prisoners of the United States immigration system, locked up since their arrival in detention centers in Florida. In Haiti, some were pulled from the rubble, their legal advocates say. Some lost parents, siblings or children. Many were seeking food, safety or medical care at the Port-au-Prince airport when terrifying aftershocks prompted hasty evacuations by military transports, with no time for immigration processing. None have criminal histories. But when they landed in the United States without visas, they were taken into custody by immigration authorities and held for deportation, even though deportations to Haiti have been suspended indefinitely since the earthquake. Legal advocates who stumbled on the survivors in February at the Broward County Transitional Center, a privately operated immigration jail in Pompano Beach, Fla., have tried for weeks to persuade government officials to release them to citizen relatives who are eager to take them in, letters and affidavits show.

Houston chef Leonard Robert Parrish, 52, went down to the Harris County Sheriff's Office in September to clear up a problem over a couple of bounced checks. He wound up in jail on immigration charges. He was strip-searched and spent 12 hours in custody. "The deputy told me I had a foreign accent," Parrish recalled. "I told him I had an East Coast accent. He said, 'It sounds like a foreign accent to me.'" A 2008 Texas law required a person's citizenship status be linked to his driver's license. A sheriff's deputy told Parrish he was detained because when they ran his driver's license information through their computer, it said that his citizenship status was unknown. "I served on a murder jury in Texas and they can't find out I'm a citizen?" asked Parrish.

Ernesto Galarza, a New Jersey-born U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent who was held illegally for three days in the Lehigh County Prison. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ordered his detention, erroneously believing he was an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic. Galarza’s Social Security card and Pennsylvania driver’s license were in his wallet at the time of his arrest and in the prison’s possession during his detention. Galarza was not told why he was being held for nearly three days. “I was shocked and upset that they assumed I am an immigrant. No one bothered to check or ask me about it. It’s clear that they only reason they decided I’m Dominican is because I’m Latino,” said Galarza. “I was born in New Jersey, and I’m a proud American. This isn’t how Americans should be treated. It’s like getting slapped in the face."

Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held Warziniack for weeks in an Arizona detention facility with the aim of deporting him to a country he's never seen. His jailers shrugged off Warziniack's claims that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had concluded that he was a U.S. citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona.

She says she is a particular person ...

Speaking of hypocrites, whatever happened to Due Process as a proper legal consideration?

It's a good thing she didn't give her name as John Doe, or the police might have assumed she was the unidentified dead man lying in the county morgue and buried her alive!

When I saw the title of the article I was thinking "one little mistake" out of how many correctly processed. Then I read that she ranaway (shouldn't have), lied (shouldn't have), AND got pregnant (shouldn't have). So, technically, she was "correctly" deported with the false name she gave (shouldn't have). She very much wants to come home (should we?)

Actually, I think her family should just go get her and bring her back. Bring documentation to prove her citizenship and get her the hell back home...I'm sure she's learned from this.

hope they hurry back with her...need to get that girl on the wic program...

K2-3424049,

You are a liar, who has absolutely no proof of the stats you post. They are out of date and therefore, inaccurate, which is beside the fact thay have nothing to do with the fact that an American citizen was deported, and not for the first time!

Keep your bigotry on the Faux News website, and allow people with functioning brain cells to post here.

According to the 2010 census which is the latest information posted on the www.census.gov website, the government welfare expenditures are broken down by racial statistics. According to the information posted, 384 billion dollars are spent annually on welfare programs. Of this sum, 212 billion (55%) went to white recipients while 105 billion (28%) went to African-American recipients and 69 billion (17%) went to Hispanic recipients.

There you have it... check it for yourself. The recipients of more than 55% of all welfare dollars are white. That's twice the amount of blacks and more than three times that of hispanics.

Reference.com,(2010). Welfare Statistics by Race retrieved on January 2, 2012 from http://www.reference.com/motif/Society/welfare-statistics-by-race

She was caught stealing(a crime) and gave a fake name that matched a criminal. Nothing to see here cops did everything correctly.

Chuck blacks are only 13% of the population maybe you should take that into account next to their welfare and crime statistics. Here is blacks(13% pop) commit more murders than any other group.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl03.xls

BKER1492 you are a sad excuse of a person. Your statistics are so wrong and you know it, or maybe your just that dumb.

Thank you Chuck 414139!

Those who are angry they may have to support her or her child. Did you ever stop to think that she may have been raped? Strange country, only speaks english. Who knows how she survived there!

@steveaae

You know I could spend all night searching for statistics... population disparity, etc., however, the overwhelming argument is that blacks and hispanics via welfare are bankrupting the nation. Certainly we can agree on that premise. That over and over whites; particularly republicans repeat the mantra that welfare is a given away indiscriminately to undeserving "black and hispanic welfare queens".

Well, guess what of all of the money given away to welfare recipients ($384 Billion Dollars)... whites are by far the one's receiving the money. To dispute this is ludicrous.

Is this for real there is now a mod banning and suspending flamers and trolls? wowzers.

I wonder if I.C.E. will be paying this girls expenses to get back home I hope all the stress did not harm her pregnancy.

...

ShortOrderCook –Perhaps you need to look up the meaning of "propaganda" in the dictionary – right after you look up a good psychotherapist in the phone book for yourself that is. This article does not editorialize in the least. It simply states the facts of the case, nothing more, nothing less. And since something like this happening is extremely rare in this country, even unheard of, it certainly merits a headline, don’t you think.

As for the rest of you uptight paranoid idiots all I can say is this story has nothing to do with politics, race, or anything else. It’s simply about some lazy careless state employees who made a costly and tragic mistake. And to those of you quoting welfare statistics all I can say is; what does that have to do with anything? But as long as you brought up the question of why the black population has a higher percentage of welfare recipients, I’m going to tell you. First, contrary to what some may believe, it has nothing to with genetics. Nor does it have anything to do with a lack of opportunities. The problem is a "perceived" lack of opportunities. You see, Blacks, particularly those raised in ghetto neighborhoods, are raised in an environment in which their peers (parents, friends, etc) program them from birth into believing that the cards are stacked against them in life and that they have no chance of making it in a "white mans world". Eventually they grow to actually believe this and therefore sink into apathy. And of course, once you take away a man’s hope then he no longer even wants to try. This in turn leads to a life of crime for many. They just take what they want and their justification (excuse) to themselves for this life crime is always going to be that society just wont give them a fare shake. The fact of the matter is though, if you were to take someone like self made billionaire and high school dropout Richard Branson, and put him into a black body prior to him starting his first business at age 16, he would still be a billionaire today. If whites have any advantage over Blacks its purely a psychological one in that they do not have it pounded into their heads from day one that their race defines who they are as a person and what they can accomplish in life. And if a White should study hard and become very articulate and well spoken he is not made to feel like he is somehow selling out and betraying his race. These are the kinds of attitudes and mechanisms that keep people from getting ahead in life. The more you can help a person to realize that he is an individual and not simply his race the better off he will be. Simply put we are not our bodies and race is purely a manifestation of having a body – there is no such thing as a "black soul" (thats science not religion). Anyway people are people, but they somehow manage to convince themselves otherwise and identify themselves with their race, always to their own detriment unfortunately.

BKER1492

Of course since whites make up 64% of the country and only 40% welfare,

Spoken like a person who barely made it through remedial math.

The overall population demographics have absolutely nothing to do with the welfare demographics. Its a shame mods cant ban stupidity.

I guess we have to deport our citizens to make room for the real illegales. And the libs want more Government!

it's like the battle of the band... tyler and the trolls...

The girl has no one to blame except herself. She is old enough to know right from wrong and should have not lied.

@Ken F-1996858

Very eloquent but your argument fails the simple test of truth. Sad, cause so many people would believe you. This deception makes your argument sinister on so many levels. You use Richard Branson as an example but discount institutional racism, inequality in income and education.

You would be saying something if in fact you could materialize actual statistics. It's funny how statisitics are used to support negative ideas about blacks but none to support racism.

Your solution is to re-victimize the victim by stating that it’s all in the victim's imagination.

You negate any remnant of slavery, lynching, murder, income disparity, privilege, etc. It's all just a figment of their imagination or perception. That racism does not exist in the 21st century. The perpetuation of the belief system you propose is disingenuous at minimum.

**Commomsense**.....DUE PROCESS applies to U.S.A. citizens, not illegals. When you tell the officer that your name is Chiquita Rosalie Salazar and there just so happens to be an illegal named Chiquita Rosalie Salazar on the Most wanted list....well you get what you ask for.

If you're old enough to play, you're old enough to pay. That girl wanted to play.......so now the cold hard world of reality has left bite marks in her runaway, pregnant, 15 year old butt.

So all of you passing judgment over this 15 year old child were perfect angels at 15? You all made good decisions with or without positive role models and/or guidance in your lives? How quick some of you are to dismiss a child for having a difficult life. My guess is because she is Black. If she were White, I suspect most of you who dismiss her life would be sympathetic to her cause. If she were White, there would be total moral outrage in her favor. Please don't suggest that if she were white she wouldn't be in this situation. White teenagers lie just as much as Black teenagers - the difference is the White kids get away with it. And, to head off other foot-in-mouth comments from the nut gallery - I was a White teenager, grew up in a rural area, now I am White middle aged and middle class with a full time "real" job and a house, good credit and all. Wow. I can be all that without hating the less fortunate.

I THOROUGHLY ENJOY that a 15-girl old GIRL "Pulled a Cornholio" on the State Dept !! BWAAAhahahaha !  It is to laugh.  In an old Beavis-n-ButtHead esipode, Beavis drank too much soda pop, and the sugar rush turned Beavis psycho and produced his alter ego, Cornholiio.  
Cornholio got deported by U.S. Immagracion to Mexico.

Kids, and people in general -- DO NOT LIE.  See what lies can do to derail your life?

For Donoftherockies. I don't know how stupid, racist you are, but I'll put you and your 16 choir in the same category as the KKK, tea partiers, republicans, white trash. I'll let you and your racist buddies choose the group. How can you have the cake and eat it too. First, the papers please law, was passed so police, actually, Jose Jalapeño from Maricopa county, Az could go after his own kind and in that way, a la Obama, try to be accepted by the crowd that hates all that are not white. I do have a question for y'all? Why are all dummies flocking to tea party, republican party? Can some one please say: Enough is enough? Your groups have too many special needs people. You should leave some for the democrats and some for independents. And who was that rocket scientist that said: Good for the police for making a mistake and to top it all, trying to kill two birds with one stone, being that she is black. First pea brains, the police shouldn't be involved in the enforcement of immigration laws, they barely know our laws to try to make them enforce more that they know diddly squat. If they make mistakes left and right on the ones that they are supposed to be proficient, what makes anybody think, not being rocket scientists, that those pea brains can take on any more tasks? I have a better for you and your groupie, why not you and your buddies head down to Colombia and become mules. Maybe you can leave your trailer trash living behind, one way or the other. Because I have no doubt that you are drug users and white trash. All racist people are. Of course, for our Sherlock Holmes police, this is not the first time. Actually, here in Texas is a daily occurrence and that is one of the reasons this state is broke. The keystone cops deporting U.S. citizens and then the suits come and the millions we don't have evaporate to lawlessness and disorder. Maybe we shopuld start exporting these special needs people, we have too many of them and maybe other countries will not notice. Most racists look like Mexicans any way. If you don't believe, look that Jose Jalapeño from Maricopa county. If he talks like a Mexican, walks like a Mexican, and dresses like a Mexican, he is a Mexican and papers or not, let's deport that Mexican. It's better in Colombia than being in jail in Arizona, because I hope that is where he is going when DOJ 0puts his a*ss in jail. Atta boy Jose! and don't forget your Boys in the commentary.

Texas... couldn't even get a simple immigration done right. Doesn't surprise me. Probably made up the excuse as I doubt that even if this child passed a name that she even remotely met the criteria they had of the actual person in their so called warrant. Can't those Texans do anything right at all?

mikela... maybe it is High Time... to go ahead and "mess with Texas"...

Really Really seriously Really!!? .

JoeB- Why have status of a minor in this country?

She messed up no doubt about that. However being shipped off to another country is not the crime fitting the punishment. This is somebody not doing there job in a big way. What protocols are in place to check the authenticity Legal or illegal ?

For everyone who is saying she 'shouldn't have lied', 'shouldn't have' this, shouldn't have' that, here is what likely happened(from someone who has been through ICE detention and is familiar witht he system):

She gets picked up on the street. For whatever reason, probably doesn't want to go home, so she gives a fake name, a name she may have heard once or twice, maybe one of her street friends. The cops leave her in holding, they go run her name. hors and hours later, someone comes to her cell, puts her in handcuffs/shackles. She's frightened. She asks what she's being arrested for. She's told she's not being arrested. They take her out, load her in an unmarked van. A ride later, she's unloaded at an ICE office. Once in there, she's told to take off her clothes for a strip search and then they tell her she's going to be deported. She protests, says she knows her rights; she's had history classes like all of us, she knows the Constitution says 'No person shall be denied due process of law'. She's told she can't protest, she's illegal. She panicks. She cries. She tells them her real name. They tell her she'll say anything now, they all do. She demands a phone call; she'll call her relatives, they'll straighten it out. she's told she doesn't get one either; she has to have money for a phone call (when I was in ICE detention it was $10 for a call no longer than 5 minutes; if no one picked up you had to have $10 for another phone call.) She asks for a lwayer-she's told she's illegal, she doesn't get one. She has no choice but to take her clothes off for a strip search; she does. (There may or may not be a female officer in the room; when I was detained there wasn't, it was all guys.)

She's only being detained, not arrested; no fingerprinting. Being here undocumented is the same as a speeding ticket; you don't get arrested and fingerprinted for a speeding ticket. Days, maybe weeks later, she's put on a plane with a bunch of other people being deported to Columbia; she is dropped off there with no money, nothing but the clothes on her back, doesn't speak the language, terrified that she'll be subject to the same pricess in Columbia that she did here. She makes freinds with street kids, who help her out, give her a place to stay, finally she manages to get near a computer, hits Facebook, wham, she's found and she knows she's coming home.

as annoying as I find these socail media sites to be, and I avoid them like the plague, in this case it served a very valuabe function and I am glad she's found and safe.

DancingSpiderman

mikela... maybe it is High Time... to go ahead and "mess with Texas"...

We don't have to really... Texas is already a mess.

I'm not shocked at all that a teenager lied. All teenagers lie. And any of you who claim that you didn't lie as a teenager are STILL lying. LOL.

BlueDevilBasher said:

**.....DUE PROCESS applies to U.S.A. citizens, not illegals.

Actually, look up Amendment 5 of the Constitution. It expressly says 'no person shall be deprived of life liberty or property without due process of law.' It doesn't say No US citizen. It says 'no person'. The founding fathers didn';t care if you were legal or illegal, terrorist or criminal or citizen, they started with the premise that you were innocent until proven guilty. Now ICE starts with 'guilty until YOU prove you're innocent,' and it's very very hard to do when you're in a deportation camp with no phone calls, no emails, no lawyer, no arraignment or hearing or right to a speedy trial, and all your mail is censored going out and coming in.

And human rights are being violated too--Do a Google search for 'Ritmo'--the Willacy Family Processing Center in Raymondville TX. Called 'Ritmo' by the press because they resemble the military detention facilities at Gitmo--Guantanamo Bay. Five giant tents on concrete pads, no windows, 200 people in each tent, 5 bathrooms for each 60 people, no walls separating the toiletspace from the living space. Lights on 24-7, hard to get sleep, sometimes they 'run out' of eating utensils and you have to eat with your hands, food served crawling with maggots, women given underwear still crusted with blood from another woman's period because the clothes weren't washed between detainees. Rampant physical and sexual abuse, no investigation of complaints, people dying while in ICE detention and their LEGAL relatives never told because ICE is not required to be accountable for deaths. There are no verifiable figures for how many people have died in ICE custody. Human Rights watch and Amnesty International are furious with ICE over detainee treatment--it's a clear violation of human rights.

Want to know why the numbers of illegals are dropping? Yes, the deportations. But word is getting out about what these deportation camps are like and many are quietly smuggling themselves out of the US because they don't want to end up in one of those--in much the same way that word started getting out about the German deportation camps in the late 30's and people started smuggling Jews and other non-Aryans out of Germany so they didn't end up in the deportation camps. And so, desperate to keep getting that $1.7 billion budget request from Congress, ICE has to keep up the number of deportations and detentions. Even at the expense of legal American citizens. There are many, many US citizens living in exile overseas after being wrongfully deported and the numbers are growing. Governments of other countries are becoming increasingly unhappy about the numbers of Americans in their countries who can't go home.

KenF said:

And since something like this happening is extremely rare in this country, even unheard of, it certainly merits a headline, don’t you think.

It's not extremely rare. See post 2.28 above. There are many many more examples but they'd take up a whole page; I trust I made my point. Do a Google search for 'ICE wrongful detention deportation' and see how many links come back to how many names for how many people. George Ibarra. Rennison Castillo. Diane Williams. Angela Boneva. Mark Lyttle. Deolinda Smith-Wilmore, 71, partially blind. Sharon McKnight. Christopher Zambrano. Hector Veloz. Victor/Victoria Arellano. Blanca Catt, 19, wants to go into the military but is facing deportation instead because she was smuggled in at 5 and her foster/adoptive parents never knew she wasn't a citizen because Social Services never told them.

Do a Google search for ICE UAM camps--unaccompanied minor deportation camps. Children as young as 18 months, decreed illegal because the adoption agency was crooked, taken from the adoptive parents who so desperately want them and putting them in deportation camps.

I'm not saying we shouldn't deport. I'm saying we need to fix what's wriong with the system!

But theGrio.com asks how an African-American speaking no Spanish Exactly. How can an African-American teenager that does not know how to speak Spanish get deported to Columbia???

The deportation of this girl is an example of terrible bungling.

This African-American teenager did not speak a word of Spanish.

Common sense should have dictated that she was not a citizen of Columbia;

This girl should not have been sent there.

Her grandmother should sue for the additional harm that has been brought to this troubled teenager.

Mikan,

Mikcan" "Turner a 'dumb little nig'

Mikcan, if it was your teenage daughter who had ran away would you advocate and cheer deportation? Of course not!

Maybe it is you who should have been deported.

This African-American teenager did not speak a word of Spanish.

Common sense should have dictated that she was not a citizen of Columbia;

Are you saying we shouldn't be deporting people if they are brought here as young children and thus don't know any other culture but ours?

Z1P2

are you saying we shouldn't be deporting people if they are brought here as young children and thus don't know any other culture but ours?

ZIP2,

Where was the evidence that this African-American minor was a Colombian Citizen?

Where was the evidence?

Maybe you were present at the time of her illegal deportation.

If so, please tell me and the rest of us why the decision was made to send this American citizen to a foreign country?

Are you saying to "teach troubled juveniles a lesson" that we should ship them out of the country?

...do not answer my question - I am concerned that your reply will further endanger American youths.

A child running away from home and giving a fake name means she deserves being shipped to a foreign country? What planet are you from? Certainly not Earth.

That's not what Leo said at all. What I took from Leo's comments is that lying can have worse consequences than just telling the truth. Had she given her real name, she would probably have been sent home. She gave a false name, and that got her deported.

I didn't see where Leo said she deserved it.

Some people were raised to think its ok....

No, but a felon in this country is. She happened to be the one that gave the false information. None of these "undocumented workers" have any proof of who they are. Guess what undocumented means Accipiter. So, what is it they were supposed to verify who she was with. I'm sure at any point in this process she could have told them.

Could it be that she was desperately afraid of being sent home and so gave the false name?

Typical Liberal ideology, praise the biggest idiots of society and demand they get their "rights" and in the same breath cuss the intelligent ones and demand they have theirs taken away because they don't have any right to what they have.

Democraps at their finest.

could it be if she was afraid that if she was sent home mom or dad would not let her stay out late and sex with all of the boys that she wanted ?

Teapub...seriously??? Oh let's not take any reponsibility for our own actions and push it off on a specific party...ignorance truly is bliss I guess! This young girl did not deserve to get deported however please in all of your brilliance and integrity tell me how you correct the problem. I am sure you have the answer right now and are just burning to let it out.

It's not a normal or typical teenage behavior..........to lie to uniformed authorities telling you what is about to happen to you.

Lynnial are you an idiot? Did you not read the whole story it said that the girl DID NOT speak spanish? I totally agree that they screwed over the only real Americans, the American Indians but get your facts straight.

I totally agree, and maybe they should let her stay in Columbia for an extended vacation. She might not do the same thing again. and Willing Sniper you might rethink your statement about typical behavior. Most teens will lie through their teeth to get out of trouble, especially now days where mommy and daddy hand out money and give them $500 cell phones and actually believe their kids when they say they are here or there. Wake up and smell the coffee wannabe armyman.

Sorry folks but I doubt once she gave a name they just put her on the next flight, she had to keep up the lie for quite some time and sorry I don't care how mess up her family was if she would have come clean and asked the truth to be verified she wouldn't likely have been shipped off. Even if they sent her back to family she could have ran away again and obviously her grandmother cared about her she could have asked to be sent to her. Therefore she must have kept the lie up thinking it would be fine and cool to go to in live in another country where she didn't need to worry about being sent back to her family so I have little sympathy. No where did the article elude that she was abused or mistreated by her family, they where just going through changes or dysfunctional big deal.

Any of you ever go to church and get taught that lying is wrong and that liars never prosper?? Maybe if she had told the truth the whole thing would have been avoided. But she can use the excuse of her parents divorce and grandmothers death and no body noticing that she was running around and getting knocked up. She and her parents that are supposed to be caring for are the ones at fault. Whose going to be responsible for her offspring? thats what I want to know. Another welfare baby on the way??

Any of you ever go to church and get taught that lying is wrong and that liars never prosper?

Then someone please tell me why are politicians so rich?

Any of you ever go to church and get taught that lying is wrong and that liars never prosper??

I didn't need a church to teach me right from wrong. My parents did a fine job.

But just to be clear, liars are usually the ones that prosper the most.

I don't understand why so many people are saying she deserves this.

She was dumb to lie, and she may have been dumb to run away (depending on the reasons), but she is a 15 year old. Many 15 year olds do dumb things, and then lie when caught. Regardless she shouldn't have been deported.

People overlook the real problem here is that a 15 year old, non-hispanic, english speaking girl should have never been mistaken for an older hispanic criminal. Too many INS workers didn't do their jobs properly that we pay them to do!

Also, she was probably just emotionally overwelmed, but she may have been running from abuse, and sometimes running away is a childs safe option in those cases. But we don't know the reason she ran (too many MSNBC articles are woefully short on information)

She made a poor choice. the people who deported her are doing their job trying to keep our country safe by only having people who belong here behind our borders.

Life is hard its harder when you are stupid. Should have gave a fake name of royalty to get diplomatic immunity.

The only smart people can lie and prosper

It's a good thing she didn't give her name as John Doe, or the idiots might have assumed she was the unidentified dead man lying in the county morgue and buried her alive!

the people who deported her are doing their job

No they aren't!

No part of their job description allows (much less requires) them to exile citizens of the United States for alleged 'crimes' committed by another person without benefit of a fair trial.

Far from doing their jobs, those bozos completely FAILED in their jobs, and wasted a good bit of government resources in the process.

They should be suspended immediately, and fired following a thorough investigation of how anyone can botch something so thoroughly.

The 'laws' these idiots thought they were upholding were passed by unscrupulous politicians equally as incompetent, and are defended most loudly today by fools and bigots.

The benefit to the United States for this debacle is what, exactly?

Keep her in columbia......we have enough liars in america.......especially riding in the clown car.

The process of deportation is not quick. She had ample opportunity to state who her family was...ONE PHONE CALL and the problem goes away. Hopefully, this is a "whoopin'" she'll never forget. It should be the family who goes to get her back.

It was not a mistake. She took the ID of someone illegal. And is a liar. Immigration did their job. And the brat got deported. Make her parents go get her.

AUSACITIZEN

When she returns; she should be arrested for "identity theft" and sent back to Columbia to do her time there for impersonating a Colombian citizen.

Jesus! A 15 year old girl is deported to Colombia where she knows no one, and does not understand the
local language, Spanish -- a stranger in a strange land, indeed!

The benefit to the United States for this debacle is what, exactly?

People caught stealing might be smart enought to not give a fake name of a illegal with multiple warrents.

The fact she was caught stealing makes her not inne cent. How many in prison do you think have an IQ above 90?

It doesn't matter what IQ they have. Many criminalsare smart. It matters what impulse control they have.

And to think that for a tiny moment there I was thinking of voting for the Republican candidate. . .after reading the comments here about this CHILD who ran away from God only knows what horrific conditions and emotional trauma only to find herself deported to Columbia without a freakin' clue, I'll stick to the lever on the left. I cannot wrap my mind around the abject hatred you people express towards a mere child who is immature enough to make some pretty serious misjudgements. Perhaps you don't remember when you were that young. Alternately, you never EVER did anything even remotely "wrong" because you're perfect. Yes, keep telling yourself that and I'll keep praying for your cold as stone hearts and way past dead souls. The lot of you should be watching out for a bolt of lightening with your names on it! Good LORD!

Jon Jones

Typical Liberal ideology, praise the biggest idiots of society

Coming from the political group that gave us George Bush and Michelle Bauchman. LOL! Clowns.

Bottom line is the young lady LIED about her name. Did she ever tell them who she was?????? NO. They don't just put you on a plane the day of your deportation. And I'm sure she didn't have ID. I ran away when I was 15 trust me no one asks questions. I'm sorry she went through this but her silence and lies are what put her where she was. Plus the Columbians don't have a medicaid system. Lil girl got preggers and HAD to come home if she hadn't have she'd still be in Columbia.

cps is not all its cracked upto be either. children are being abused in that system also, and in extream cases murdered.

This is a real bonanza for bigots. They can hate on immigrants, Latinos, and African Americans all at the same time!

And one of the objects of hatred hasn't even been born yet, making their bile all the more savory to them.

I hope she is comfortable and happy in columbia, strip her of usa citizenship.

It seems like that they have some “slavers” working at the ICE.

I was a fost adopt mother andf only about 33% or less, from my observation, of children in the CPS system get adopted out. If they go to the CPS system, which would happen because of abuse, etc. the children probably will not get adopted out.

HShaver, the Cretans on here spewing their brand of bigotry and hatred don't have a clue about CPS or anything else they typically like to spew about. I want to personally thank you for being a foster parent. It is a very selfless act of love.

Exactly, what crime did she commit? Sadly, she's young and dumb. That is not a crime. You don't know what her situation is but given the limited information from the article, she was obviously in a terrible emotional state with her parents divorcing, losing a loved one, and pregnant at 15. Let's not be so quick to judge her. Try praying for her, if you're capable.

Wow, some heart. I bet you call yourself a Christian, too?

Gosh, I'd hate to live in the totalitarian world you wish existed. If a child running away from home and giving a fake name warrants being shipped to another country, I'd hate to see what your punishment would be for shoplifting. Chopping off a hand, maybe? Hey, you'd be right at home in certain Middle Eastern countries 500 years ago!

Want me to get you a plane ticket? People like you aren't welcome in the United States, where the punishment fits the crime.

wow, well ain't you an ignorant piece of turd.

i wonder if the ice agent was doing hes job or eating donuts (checking finger prints)or he just said another black that it is latino or just a race profile because her eye were not green or blue or she wasnt blonde ,with so much technology and so much money they use from the tax payer some head had to fall here ? dont u think so

killerteam, if that is truly your logo and you were in fact with the air/cav you're a poor and boorish representative of the shield. I know many who did serve, I see and work with them every day at the VA and cannot say I've EVER heard even one of them refer to the President of the United States as an "community agitator". As a Rule, they are patriotic to the core and you, with that statement bring them nothing but shame with your post. Some people are nothing but racists in poorly hidden disguises.

What crime did she commit? SHe lied yes, but they should've verified who she was. If the person's named she used had warrants the had been finger printed. A simple finger print test would've avoided all of this

Put yourself in her Situation, shes scared and a kid. You dont know what really happened, and your only going by what what written...geez you peolple will believe anything

STRONGLY AGREE WITH YOU, Damion

"Lying" to police or federal officers is a crime in itself.

anthoney

We are not born knowing write or worng it is up to the indivduals in our life to teach us right from wrong

Everyone is born knowing the difference between right and wrong.

No we aren't. As a species we have to be taught what is right and wrong.

We have an entire industry devoted to protect children that are still learning right from wrong. All children start out as liars. To say otherwise would be a lie.

The lie is the first wrong thing a child learns to do.

@Killerteam... you sir are a liar. I know who the enemy is and the enemy is you. Take your Turner Diary reading neocon, new world order white trash rhetoric some where else. For that matter, any other specious piece of carbon-based trash that pretends to be of honor whom chooses to hate his fellow citizen purely because of race.

You act as though you were trusted to be close enough to witness or guard the President but then volunteer that you are disabled. Your treasonist words resound of someone who is desperate to be associated with the code but lack honor. I know honor and I know code and it takes more than skin color.

I make no mistake in saying that you sir are not and never will be given the pride to be ranked with the best!

Lying to cops can be a crime. If someone admits to being a criminal with multiple warrents they will have to pay some price.

For the folks who believe that a simple fingerprint test would have prevented the deportation, I say, probably not. As a 15 year old, her fingerprints probably aren't in the system and an illegal, on the run from the law probably doesn't have prints in the system either, unless they've been caught and deported before.

"They should have verified"

If she would have told them her name and given them a number to call, do you think that INS would have checked it out...I do. It was not verified for a reason. And the reason is not because INS are government workers people think are plain stupid. This girl was acting plain stupid. They probably investigated as far as they could with the information she provided. If she did try to "tell the truth" it would have obviously been after the mechanics of their system was in motion and too late to stop it.

Chuck for POTUS!!! That was the most eloquently written post I've ever read and I, for one, greatly appreciate your obvious skill and gift of prose. KUDOS, SIR!

At least i served my country and do not go around the world apologizing for America. Obama and his wife have both shown how treasonous they both are in words and actions. I will never forget Obama ignoring the flag as it passed him by with everyone else on the stage saluting or placing their hand over their heart, but obama just stood their like the muslim marxist he really is. You sir are the fake, and fraud, and if you had one ounce of American in your veins you would recognize what this anti American Marxist is doing to this country, but since you do not, just fall in line with the rest of the baby killing marxist democrats you love so much. This country has gone to hell because of liberalism and your president that stirs up more trouble and race baits daily. He is just another jesse jackson and al sharpton rolled into one, and uses race every chance he gets to achieve his agenda..... and that is to take this country down. I would never ever serve this unAmerican president, and for someone to even begin to think that he represents this country is nothing but sickness. You cannot ignore his friends, his church, his lack of attending church, his constant cutting down this country, his dislike of Israel, and making fun of its president, and someday obama will have to answer for all of this. But until then, stand with your marxist president that wants to steal from the workers and give it to the non workers....... its only fair, right? Again i say, if you disagree with obama, your labled a racist, and that is getting mighty old... cant you democrats come up with something different that George Bush and anyone that disagrees with obamas socialist, racist policies as being a racist?

Do you have to polish that skinhead of yours after you give it the old radical razor cut? KILLERTEAM, Bah for the Humbug you are; you are not branded racist for your disagreements with society, you are branded racist for your choice of words and the way you insidiously insert them into what you call the truth.

Again, you are a disgrace to the shield you post as a logo.

Let me get this straight....ICE lets millions of illegals overrun our country like cockroaches and when they finally DO deport someone...it turns out to be a US citizen

Perhaps Columbia will exchange her for one of their nationals illegally in our country - although somehow I doubt this will happen

This young girl was obviously afraid to go home. A child does not always make good decisions, especially when she is frightened. You do not know what environment she was living in. There are many reasons a child will run away from home. There is no need to judge this young girl. What good does it do to judge her?

@makaveli559m

....and you know what you and your white horse can do, my friend

What was going on in her mind as they were shipping her out of the country? Why did'nt she just admit who she was and where she came from? 15 is plenty old enough to understand right from wrong even under a huge load of stress. She could have saved herself, her family and this country, worry, grief, anda huge expense. SHE CHOSE TO LIE!

15 is NOT a child... this girl knew that she was lying, continued the lie, and ended up in a bad situation for it. As far as her not speaking spanish, put youself in the illegals shoes for a second, "if i admit to this name, and admit to speaking spanihs, <G> what are they gonna do". Um yeah, an illegal who isn't completely moronic would never admit to speaking spanish if they knew how to speak fluent English. The only person to blame here is the dumb 15 y.o. Not her race, her creed, the ICE agents or anybody. Some of you seem to forget that there are other sides to the story than yours and this idiot teenager.

fingerprints are only taken from those who are caught, arrested and processed. If the girl who was actually the criminal had been arrested and processed they would have had fingerprints to compare, but im guessing they did not.

Most 15 year olds do not have fingerprints on file. Americans get fingerprinted if they have been arrested for a crime, been in the military or on a police force or they have had a background investigation for a security clearance. You might be surprised how many adults don't have fingerprints on file anywhere.

Didn't realize that. I just accepted everyone had fingerprints on file, since I got fingerprinted for being a foster parent and a teacher.

on the brighter side, maybe she will find a good job in Columbia

I agree with your comment.

Thank you very much.

Gotta call it how I see it...We all do stupid things as teens whether the world finds out about it or not, but nothing she's done deserves Mikcan's or anyone else's ignorant responses. None of us knows all of the details, only what's being reported and all ICE did was make a bad situation worse. I wouldn't even be surprised if it wasn't done deliberately by an idiot with the same views about her as Mikcan....I don't put anything past anyone in these days and times.

Killerteam.....I don't give a darn what race it's coming from or directed to, racism is racism. Period. I do/will NOT sugarcoat it for anyone; and if you take offense to it, that says a lot to me about you.

I agree with you 100%

@killerteam

As many of your fellow Fox News patrons are, you are misinformed regarding Jeremiah Wright. You are saying he preached for 20 YEARS the SAME sermon? It was one particular SERMON that was controversial. Get a clue.

I just finished listening to the nearly 40-minute sermon Rev. Jeremiah Wright gave on April 13, 2003, titled, "Confusing God and Government."

For those of us watching and listening to the media in the last week, it is better known as the "God Damn America" sermon.

Wright's scriptural focus was Luke 19:37-44 (reading from the New Revised Standard Version). In this sermon, Wright spoke about the military rule during biblical days, led by Pontius Pilate. It was clear, through his language, such as "occupying military brigade" that he was making an analogy to the war in Iraq.

He then gets to the thesis of his sermon, saying, “y’all looking to the government for only what God can give. A lot of people confuse God with their government.”

Wright criticizes the Bush administration and its supporters for using Godly language to justify the war in Iraq. He equates using God in America as condoning the war in Iraq to the same perspective of Islamic fundamentalists.

He also criticizes the “lily white” G-7 nations for controlling the world’s capital

He then went on to talk about the salvation of Christians through the death of Jesus Christ. The sermon ended with a song proclaiming, “God never fails.”

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/21/the-full-story-behind-wright%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cgod-damn-america%E2%80%9D-sermon/

How is this rassess? She told cops she was a wanted illegal alien with multiple warrants for arrest. With no ID on her, like illegals usually don't they processed her like she told the truth. Do you think a white guy could go up to a cop and say he killed his great grandad without them arresting him and looking into if he did, or go to the airport and say you got dino mite in your undies. There are good and bad people of all races, unfortunately blacks only sold their criminals and defeated enemies into slavery so most of the good blacks are still in africa. Somali christians are persecuted but we only get somali muzzies as asylum seekers because they are allowed to lie to infidels (everyone not them).

Life is hard , its harder if your stupid.

Nikki, how is this racist?

Adias- Jeremiah Wright preached the same message for 40 years of

1. YT is evil and merit based standards are how YT keeps the black man down.

2.Even tho black live better in the USA than anywhere else in the world, black not better off cuz of wraaassessm

3. Black convicts and defeated rival tribes sold by blacks into slavery,who would have been killed otherwise like the zulus did to the Hottentots, suffered by the white devil who had modern medicine.

4. Since black kids in africa die every 6 seconds to malaria is cured by plants YT showed natives how to use its rassess to not give lottso more aid, cuz quinine b hard 2 harvest sustainably when thieves b about

YT.... rassess and wraaassessm. lmao! I guess he means whitey... races and racism? Hillarious! I'm not trying to be the spelling cop on this thread but damn! You would think that of all the words... there are a million examples on this thread to at least copy. no offense intended but whoa! :)

Sounds like a simple case of "airing" grievances. No different that the The Declaration of Rights and Grievances passed October 19th 1765 by the Stamp Act Congress of New York.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/content/antistamp-doc.html

Naw go on bak ta ur rawkin chair ya ol' sourpuss

Yeah. The Police are real geniuses! No wonder why they go from being a thug in high school to a thug with a badge.

Of course you would brand cops as thugs.....just look at your name "Lindsay Lohan"...an all american girl if there ever was one, who has plenty of run-ins with authorities. She gave false information to the authorities (a crime) and it happen to be a name of an illegal.

nothing was said that the parents or the grandmother actually filed a report. and Lindsay... maybe you should ask to assist on a missing persons case of a 15 year old runaway... unless they leave a trail its easy to lose them completely especially if they are giving fake names. she had run away in 2010 and was not caught and deported until 2011.. april at that. so she was out there for quite a while and never made the attempt to get back home.

But I bet they continued cashing the gov't check.

They said nothing about a government check. read the article and stop making things up.

You must not watch 16 and pregnant

Please please tell me what is untrue on here.

72 percent of blacks are born out of wedlock. For Whites that number is 48.1 percent or 33 percent. Having a child outside of wedlock IS a big deal to 92 year old GRANDMAs but to younger generations, not so much. People have a child THEN get MARRIED.

Within age groups, 87 percent of births to teenagers and 62 percent of births to women aged 20-24 were nonmarital...

There are wide variations in the proportions of nonmarital births across states. In 2009, the proportions were lowest in Utah, Colorado, and Idaho (ranging from 19 to 26 percent) (Internet Table I-4). At least half of all births were nonmarital in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and the District of Columbia. These geographic variations largely reflect compositional differences by race and Hispanic origin among states.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus10.pdf#007

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarry.htm

Rangewolf your statements are completely based on personal opinion illustrated by your disparaging attack on Mrs. Obama. You and Killer team are NOT worth the breath it takes to say GO FUKKK YOURSELF

Using the F word on newsvine SHOULD get you suspended unless you are a liberal.

and misspell duck...

There is a profanity filter that is enabled by default for all Newsvine accounts. Now the filter would not protect your eyes Stealth1 due to i decided to make a play on words.

Next time I will NOT go around the filter and anyone who has not followed the below steps will see such a post auto-collapsed.

ACCOUNT > Account Settings > Profanity Filter > OFF

We are a country of hatred thou! You have pot in your pocket your under arrest! You are gay you can not legally get married because we don't believe in true freedom. Listen to our current republicans "We must bomb Iran" Why????? Israel has bankrupted the US tax payer not Iran!!!!!. LOL we are a people that love to hate! But yes I do agree with you!!!!! Less hate more love...I will email that to the IRS....lol.

Why is it racismn if people expect immigrants to come here legally? I think a lot of people are sick and tired of being told they are racists for that view. Go try living in Mexico. You'll find their immigration laws are far tougher than the US and if you knew what goes on in mexican jails and prisons you would'nt want to risk trying to get into that country illegaly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No Mark. As long as there are ignorant morons like you, there will be racism. Get used to it, and get over YOURSELF, you piece of @!$%#. You give REAL Americans like me a bad name.

FactoftheMatter, there you are again, spewing hatred. Why don't you be quiet and not call names.

Name calling is the last bastion of defense for the one who loses the arguement (typically the Liberal)

um.. she did lie.. and apparently she did not correct that lie since they did deport her and if she would have at any point told anyone who she really was they would have checked it out. Also she had the option of going to the embassy in Colombia and tell them who she was. Or novel idea call her grandmother or parents. She choose not to, she most likely figured it was a free trip somewhere and that was that. If she was on facebook she had many ways to alert people of who and where she was.. she choose not to.

While that may just bust your little anti authority bubble... she had many means and ways to get ahold of someone to tell them who she was.

Tseirpa said:

if she would have at any point told anyone who she really was they would have checked it out

ICE is not required to validate anyone's claims that they are a citizen. You are guilty until YOU prove you're innocent.

Or novel idea call her grandmother or parents.

You're not allowed phone call while in ICE custody If you want to make a call you have to pay for it--hen I was in ICE detention the going rate was $10 for a 5 min call, if you didn't have money no phone call. If you dialed the number but no one picked up, you have to give them $10 for another call.

If she was on facebook she had many ways to alert people of who and where she was..

There is no internet allowed in a deportation camp. Letters are read before guards and checked for 'factuality and relevance' and if she wrote something like "I'm in detention and its horrible, please get me out!" she would have been sent to solitary confinement.

Actually they believed her when she said she was a illegal alien with multiple arresst warrents. By changing her story she seemed like a liar.

Life is hard, its harder if your stupid

Too true.

In some ways I agree with you. At 15 she should know better. On the other hand what kind of officials do we have that don't investigate. Guess that shows what security does. Nothing.

But again at 15 you have most likely been taught along the way that lying can get you into trouble.

My sympathy is with the people that had to go looking for her.

i bet she got pregnant from the toilet seat too....

How can we deport all you teatards straight to Hell?

thefireswamp, really? You'd laugh at her? After you filled out all the forms and filled up all the offficials' and airlines' pocketsto get her back? After she got lost in Colombia for a long time without thinking she would ever get home maybe? Or would you get her back because you sound like such a caring person.

Nice rack:)

You kidding me? Looks like a plumber at work

racks on racks on racks!

Thank you! You actually seem to have gotten the point of the story. I wish you could persuade the rest :-) This is a case that is a BLATENT civil rights violation. The funny thing, is that so many of us as Americans cannot see past the end of our own nose.

Lets hope that not all 15 year olds from divorced family that suffer loss of a grandparent run away. That would empty out half the country.

My sympathy to those that had to look for her.

How so? She told them who she was and they believed her.

Exactly how were her Civil Rights violated?

she gave a fake name. She did not speak up to say she was an american. She continued to keep silent about her real identity. She chose her path. She had many opportunities to tell someone or get ahold of her family and she chose not to.

Its the White people that are being discriminated against!!! Wake up and look around..... Do we have a White Entertainment Network? YES. NBC, ABC< CBS< MTV White Miss America? SEVERAL A National Organization for the Advancement of White People? YES KKK A United White Peoples College Fund? EVERY IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE Special voting privileges? Even the president accused a white cop of being guilty of racism when he and a black cop went and arrested his black friend.... HAPPENS ON BOTH SIDES and was it not obama and eric holder that released the Black Panther thugs that were poll workers for obama and had billy clubs? SEE EVERY WHITE COLLAR AND KKK SON OF THE SOUTH They were convicted of voter intimidation, yet let go by obama and the racist holder.... LOL TOO FUNNY the crap people get away with in this country. Please look around before calling anyone racist, and just who is the racist people now that get all the advantages that our entitlement system allows.

Damion... You little devil you, you probably had to spin your little head around 4 times to come up with that one...

Kilerteam The only reason these black organizations came into existence was not to discriminate against white people but to bring some sense of equality to black people. There wouldn't be a BET if black people could get on other tv stations. Some people want to pretend that racism doesn't exist anymore and that black people are trying to play some type of card to get an advantage. You point to black gangs. Organize crime sydicates are the biggest gangs ever. The italian and irish mobs have killed and destroyed more lives than I can count. The difference is the police departments and local governments were on their payroll so their crimes were largely ignored. You can point to the bad people in any race and condemn the race as a whole, but that is just you trying to justify your racist upbringing. There are good and bad in every race. I see which side you represent.

Yea she has that disorder that keeps her from closing her legs & the one that forces her to lie to cops.

Damian- You know white people have to pay to go to college or get there by merit, there is no graduate from HS with a 2.5 and get $10,000 for whites. You can't say you believe in both affirmative action and that everyone is equal.

Steveaae, Obviously you are unhappy with your life and make yourself feel bette by putting down a 15 year old child. Someone who puts a child down, doesn't say much for the adult. Was she influenced and inpregnated by an older man who took advantage of her? Of course you don't know. You just want to think the worst about others because it makes you feel superior to someone. Get your life together and you won't feel the need to verbally attack 15 yr old children.

After seeing some of these arguments, i can see why 72% of black babies are born out of wedlock.

Killer, I think your number is just a tiny bit high, but you're close. Let's put the blame where it really belongs though. Did you know that 100% of babies born out of wedlock are born to women! I think we need to do something about that. Let's send them all back where they came from. That will teach them!

Mark said:

Exactly how were her Civil Rights violated?

Amendment 5: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

The Constitution specifically says no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. the operative words here? 'No person'. the Founding Father's laws didn't make the distinction between citizen or illegal or undocumented, terrorist or not. It says 'no person'. And THAT is your violation of civil rights.

Due process includes phone call, lawyer, arraignment, trial or at least a hearing. Immigrants, some of them actual legal citizens are being deported without this due process. And the Patriot Act indemnifies ICE against lawsuits, which is why local police offices are being hit with wrongful detention lawsuits.

Zeedee: God help you for referring to an ignorant 15 year old girl as a rat! Trapped she is, but a rat, she isn't. I don't condone getting pregnant at fifteen or lying for that matter. My goodness, I hope you never make any mistakes in your life or have ever received any assistance be it from family, friend, neighbor, government, etc. because you're so perfect. Right? Doubtful!

zeedee,

RAT? You are the reason we need activists reminding us that racism is alive and well in America. ICE had a teenager in custody. A teenager they fingerprinted and had they looked for her identity they would have found her since she had been fingerprinted before. They were so gung ho to get rid of another RAT (African American) they didn't bother to look. This is a child. Now a pregnant child. I cannot blame the Columbians for not trusting us Americans with her welfare since we were so quick to be her judge and jury and send her away because she didn't look like the majority of us even though she sounded just like us.

You are the rat Zeedee along with the ICE enforcers handling her. She is an innocent child who stole something and tried to hide her identity. I expect police and ICE to be professional and put two and two together and figure things out. That is what I pay tax dollars for. Not racism.You need to look at everyone with hands in this case up to and including the judge and her appointed public defender if she was given any. They are all dirty.

You say she was fingerprinted before what crimes did she commit. Cops only have access to previous criminals fingerprints. Maybe her crimes where worse than the illegal alien with multiple warrents she claimed to be.

She is a child. A runaway from a bad situation according to records. No one can judge her. But with the amount of cold hearted people on this post I'm not surprised Columbia is hesitating sending her back to this country. When it comes to raising children we are still a third world nation.

Steveaae,

I have seen several references now to the supposed FACT that police agencies (I was raised not to refer to officers of the law by terms as derogatory as COPS) only have access to fingerprints of persons with prior criminal records. This is a patently false argument, as many law enforcement agencies sponsor fingerprinting drives for young children to aid in the identification of children who have been abducted or even those who have (as in this case) run away. While the article says nothing regarding whether or not her fingerprints were previously on file, please do not continue to live under the misconception that law abiding citizens cannot have their fingerprints documented through their own intentional action.

Well at least now she will know where lies will get you but what I don't understand they tell her she is going to columbia and she still doesn't tell the truth. And to top it off she a pregnant 15 year old? Let her stay there we don't need her kind of stupidity in this country any way.

Exactly. Why are we so ready to condemn a child but not the authorities who were the screw ups? Irregardless of whether she used a false name or not, it is the authorities responsibility to verify information especially when it involves a child.

You call her dumb, but i guess she got it figured how to get more welfare by getting pregnant. Or are you saying thats just imbred in them?

What are they supposed to do? serioulsy? she gave a name. she didnt contradict them. She allowed them to deport her and did not try to correct the mistake. There is nothing saying the family filed a missing persons report. And she lives in Texas, she most likely knows a spattering of spanish ( and doesnt the writer know that there are latinos who are darker-- ie black-- as well ?) What exactly was the law enforcement and immigration supposed to do? guess that she wasnt the person she said she was.. based on what? Its very telling that the girl never made the attempt to get back to her family or contact them. They found her through facebook, so she had internet access... but hey lets blame law enforcement for doing their job and forgive the girl for lying and causing the mess.

@tseirpa-3456427 Exactly! You just made me think that the girl should be made to pay restitution once she is old enough to have a job.

How was law enforcement even to be sure she was 15. So many teenagers dress, act and look much older than they are. The female with the warrant was probably over 18 or they would've treated this matter a little differently?!?!?!

The point people are trying to make is the only huge ignorant mistake was done by the girl, everyone else acted correctly. Go down to the airport and tell them you got dino mite in your undies, they will believe you, & treat you correctly

Hopefully this girl learn her lesson and will never lie again. At 15 one should know the difference between telling the truth and lying. She has only herself to blame for this.

At age 15 I KNEW enough not to lie, especially to police. I also knew being of mixed race and looking hispanic to some that I might face discrimination.

Because of that fact I also know I will never set foot in Mexico I want to stay in the USA and I was born here and have been "legal" my entire life. My father LEGALLY immigrated to this country and in 1974 became a naturalized citizen of the US.

That said, I worked in Law Enforcement, here is how it went, Girl gave a false name. Girl's finger prints were not on file (one poster claimed they should have been because of Young Child I.D. programs, well those programs are voluntary and they DO NOT keep the finger prints they are given to the parents to take home and keep in case their child disappears or runs away they are NOT KEPT ON FILE). The name given comes up with I.C.E. warrants. Now the police have two choices and it depnds on the directives from their Chief 1. Follow I.C.E. Warrants 2. Not Follow I.C.E. warrants. This police department obivously decided they should follow them.

So once they determined by a fake name she was wanted by I.C.E. it was out of their hands and I.C.E. was called and she was picked up. Now why would I.C.E. believe her claiming she was a U.S. citizen, I wouldn't. Even if she did and this poorly written story did not indicated that. She would not have been believed.

It is unfortunate that this happened to her but she did in fact bring this upon herself. So it is all her fault and do not pity her at all. Hopefully the cost is on her parents to bring her back so they can remind her of the cost of her lie. Which she hopefully is reminded of daily, which because she is pergnant she will be.

Maybe she did finally tell them who she was and maybe she didn't. What do you think an illegal, trying to avoid deportation, might do? From her initial arrest to being placed on a plane to Columbia, there were lots of folks involved. I cannot believe that if she really wanted to prevent being deported, that she didn't tell everyone who she was and, if she did that, I can't believe that not one of them at least attempted a phone call to verify.

With ICE you are guilty until YOU prove you're innocent.

Former ICE executive James Pendergraph told a conference full of police officers in 2008 that 'If you don't have enough to charge someone criminally but you think they may be here illegally, we [ICE] can make them disappear."

Yes, they can.