“My sister asked, ‘How is she going to be deported if she’s Native American?’ and ‘We have proof,'” Maria Nunez, Jacobo’s sister. said the Arizona mirror. “They said, ‘Well, we don’t know because we’re not immigration and we can’t answer those questions. We’re just holding it for them. So when they come to pick her up tonight, they’re going to go ahead and deport her to wherever they’re going to take her, but we don’t have any information on that.”
Jacobo’s family went out of its way to prove she had been wrongly detained, posting on Facebook, contacting tribal leaders and even bringing her birth certificate to the prison. His social security number was also on file. Polk County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Mark Chance eventually admitted the jail made a big mistake and the inmate was intended for someone else.
“It was a human error, but I’m sure as soon as the command staff finds out, they’re going to have meetings with their supervisors internally and say, ‘Hey, guys, we need to keep a thumbs up on this, this is stupid,'” he said.
