"News reports surfaced last week that a fourteen-year-old girl from Dallas, an American citizen who did not speak a word of Spanish, was deported to Colombia," writes Ali Noorani on the Huffington Post.

"How many cases like this will it take before the Department of Homeland Security calls a time out and fixes the serious flaws in its Secure Communities program? [She] is not the first American citizen to have been mistakenly detained as part of the program -- and it has other egregious problems."