"She looks like a kid, she acts like a kid. How could they think she wasn't a kid?"

The Dallas Morning News reported that the teen, who didn’t speak Spanish, was pregnant.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said the teen gave authorities a fake name when she was arrested in Houston last year for theft. The name was of a Colombian woman born in 1990, and Turner maintained the name through deportation proceedings.

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It’s unclear if she’ll be charged upon her return for falsifying her identity.

Jakadrien’s grandmother, Dallas hairstylist Lorene Turner, told the Associated Press that U.S. officials should have done more to identify the girl after she gave a fake name and claimed to be an adult.

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