An American teenager mistakenly deported by US authorities to Colombia last year has been reunited with her family, The Dallas Morning News reported.
Jakadrien Turner was 14 years old when she ran away from home in the fall of 2010 to Houston, where she was arrested by police in April for committing theft.
The teen was then deported by US immigration authorities after she gave police a false name that suggested she was an adult from Colombia with no legal status in the US, FOX News Latino reported.
Since then, Turner was granted full Colombian citizenship, worked as a cleaner in a domestic house and became pregnant -- with her baby due this spring, The Morning News reported.
After the now 15-year-old arrived at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Friday night, an attorney representing her family told reporters that the family was not willing to comment about having their daughter back.
'They want to get their daughter home; they want their daughter to get some rest,' attorney Ray Jackson said.
'This is a happy day. We're eager to get to the next step and that is to make the people responsible pay for the civil rights violations that this girl had to go through.'
It is not yet known whether Turner will face charges for lying to immigration officials about her name and country of origin.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement Thursday that at no time during criminal proceedings against Jakadrien was her identity determined to be false.
After Texas authorities handed her over to ICE officials, Jakadrien, who had no identification documents with her, maintained she was from Colombia, despite not being able to speak Spanish.
'As is standard protocol, criminal database searches and biometric verification were conducted and revealed no information to invalidate her claims,' Barbara Gonzalez, ICE's press secretary, said in an email to FOX News Latino.
'She was ultimately ordered removed from the US by a Department of Justice immigration judge,' Gonzalez added.
Jakadrien's grandmother, Lorene Turner, eventually found the teenager on Facebook -- with the help of the Dallas Police Department -- and learned that she was cleaning a large house in Colombia. US embassy officials then contacted Colombian police and she was taken to a detention center.
