Authorities: Texas teen mistakenly deported to Colombia due back in U.S. Friday

(CBS/AP) EL PASO, Texas - Colombian officials say a 15-year-old Dallas girl who was mistakenly deported to Columbia after giving immigration officials a fake name will return to the United States Friday.

The Columbian government said late Thursday that the American embassy had submitted the necessary documents for Jakadrien Lorece Turner to return to the U.S.

A high-level official in the ministry of foreign affairs who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that Turner was turned over to the U.S. embassy Friday and was scheduled to leave Colombia quickly.

It was unclear where she was heading.

The girl, who ran away from home over a year ago, was recently found in Bogota, Columbia by the Dallas Police Department with help from Columbian and U.S. officials.

According to the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the girl was enrolled in the country's "Welcome Home" program after she arrived there. She was given shelter, psychological assistance and a job at a call center, a statement from the agency said. When the Colombian government discovered she was a U.S. citizen, it put her under the care of a welfare program, the statement said.

Her grandmother called the deportation a "big mistake somebody made" and said U.S. officials need to do better.

"She looks like a kid, she acts like a kid. How could they think she wasn't a kid?" Lorene Turner asked on Thursday.

Jakadrien's family said she left home in November 2010. Houston police said the girl was arrested on April 2, 2011, for misdemeanor theft in that city and claimed to be Tika Lanay Cortez, a Colombian woman born in 1990.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday that the teen claimed to be Cortez throughout the criminal proceedings in Houston and the ensuing deportation process in which an immigration judge ultimately ordered her back to Colombia.

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