Bamboozler fakes way to Columbia

At least that's what the parents think. Apparently this girl gave a fake name to get a job in Houston at some club after running away from home. She then was arrested for shoplifting under that fake name. Using the same fake name she went through the court system where she was eventually deported to Columbia sometime in 2010. All of this was when she was 13. She's 15 now though, and an expecting mother. She also was quite the life of the party in Columbia despite not knowing how to speak spanish. Her facebook page was also riddled with photos of her sitting on men's laps whilst smoking weed.

Non of this makes sense to me. Obviously we as Americans are pretty happy to get rid of what we assume to be illegal Colombian immigrants. However there is a different theory.

Jackson says he believes something more sinister is going on."There has to be something behind this 15-year-old girl ending up in Colombia, besides the fact that ICE dropped the ball," he said. "Of all the nicknames ... to pick one that's of Latino descent, for that to be a name that sticks and gets you deported, that doesn't make sense."

That's right. He thinks she was coerced into faking her way to Columbia, in order to smoke pot in the comfort of some man's lap. Jackson is her father by the way. I find this hard to believe. The sad fact is that if you try to hide your identity, it will be exposed. There are exceptions to this rule but I doubt she's former special forces or in the CIA or something. In fact, the detectives looking into this would seem to agree.

"I don't buy that she had the wherewithal to be able to bamboozle the government," Jackson says. "You know, kids are scared when they get around authorities. ... To think that you could bamboozle them to create a new identity, it just doesn't make sense."

A little heavy on the bamboozlement part for my tastes but it gets the point across.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/05/us/texas-colombia-teen/index.html