Jakadrien Turner, who was 14 at the time, was picked up for shoplifting last year at a Houston mall and identified herself to authorities as a 21-year-old Colombian national. She subsequently was deported and spent seven months in Colombia living in shelters before she was returned to the U.S. in January after her grandmother and Dallas police tracked her down.

“Ms. Turner’s illegal detention and deportation are the direct and foreseeable consequence of official policies, patterns, practices and customs that manifest not only intentional discrimination based on race and ethnicity and a failure to recognize basic principles of due process, but also a reckless disregard for human life and liberty,” according to the lawsuit.

Defendants named in the suit include Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, as well as various officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, do not comment on pending litigation, said ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen.

The Justice Department did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

ICE has previously said it had found no evidence to substantiate the teenager’s claims she tried to give her real identity to agency officials.

“Turner consistently used a false identity with her dealings with the Houston police, her defense attorney, ICE, the immigration court and the Colombian government. She continued to maintain this false identity as reflected in her social media postings for six months while in Colombia, never claiming to be a United States citizen,” ICE said in a January statement that Christensen referred to the AP on Wednesday.

The teenager’s attorney, Ray Jackson, said federal authorities were ultimately at fault for what happened to his client.

“The buck should have stopped with them,” he said.

The Associated Press does not normally name alleged victims of sexual abuse, but Jackson said the teenager’s family agreed to make this public to help detail what had happened to Turner as a result of her wrongful deportation. Jackson did not have details about the circumstances of Turner’s pregnancy, which occurred when she was 15. The teenager is expected to have her baby sometime this summer, Jackson said.

The suit also said that while living in Colombia, Turner worked at a call center and lived in a group home for unwed mothers.

“She was afraid that she would be jailed in Colombia and never see her family again,” according to the suit.

U.S. immigration officials have insisted they followed procedure and found nothing to indicate that the girl wasn’t a Colombian woman living illegally in the country.

The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said Turner was issued travel documents at the request of U.S. officials using information they provided.

A review by the AP of more than two dozen telephone calls Turner made while in custody in Houston showed the teenager never expressed concern that she was being misidentified as an illegal immigrant from Colombia.

Jackson said the lawsuit would explain the phone calls and also explain “why she did what she did.” He declined to offer more details.

“This was a cold calculated murder, not only meant to deprive Kala Golden of her life but to abduct her child,” Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon said during the 1½ hour bond hearing.

A detective who testified at the hearing said McClain initially told investigators she had found the baby after it had been left on her doorstep. But authorities say she later confessed.

Defense attorney E. Tay Bond had asked for a bond of $100,000 or less for the 30-year-old nurse, arguing she has no prior criminal history and that witnesses have not positively identified her as being at the shooting scene.

“We of course disagree with (the judge’s ruling). We believe she has a constitutional right to a bond,” the attorney said after the hearing.

But state District Judge Fred Edwards ruled preliminary evidence supported authorities’ claims that McClain was responsible for “the violent death of a young mother” and justified her being held without bond.

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Det. John Schmitt had testified that authorities found the jeans and handgun as well as a cell phone and a towel with blood on them in McClain’s apartment. The Lexus that witnesses said sped away from the shooting with the infant also was found in front of the apartment. Inside the vehicle, investigators recovered a shell casing similar to ones found at the shooting scene and blood was found on the driver’s side door.

McClain did not speak during the hearing. She kept looking down at the floor as she rocked back and forth in her chair and tapped her leg up and down. Bond said McClain continues to mumble and be visibly upset, as she was at a hearing last week.

Her “mental evaluations will be forthcoming,” he said.

McClain faces a capital murder charge, which could carry a death sentence. Ligon said his office hasn’t decided whether to seek the death penalty. Her attorneys have said she intends to plead not guilty.

The shooting happened last Tuesday outside the Northwoods Pediatric Center in Spring, about 25 miles north of Houston, where McClain had taken her three children for checkups. Investigators believe Golden was randomly targeted.

Authorities said 28-year-old Golden was placing her son, Keegan Schuchardt, into her pickup truck when McClain repeatedly shot her, snatched the child and sped off. Golden died at a hospital. But she was first able to give a description of who had shot her and taken her son, Schmitt testified.

After the Lexus was found at a nearby apartment complex, SWAT officers entered McClain’s apartment but found no one inside. Schmitt said McClain then approached investigators at the scene, telling them the Lexus was her sister’s and she had driven it earlier. McClain later became a suspect when her story kept changing after being asked if she knew where the infant was, Schmitt said.

The infant was found safe with McClain’s sister and after McClain was confronted with this, she told investigators that “after returning to the apartment with the Lexus (after running errands), she … located the baby on the front steps and took the baby” to her sister’s house, Schmitt said.

McClain’s sister told authorities that McClain informed her she planned to adopt the boy. Investigators said McClain had told her fiance she’d given birth to their child.

McClain was a vocational nurse and had been working for Epic Health Services, a Dallas-based company that provides private duty nursing services for medically fragile children and adults facing chronic illness or catastrophic injuries.

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“There is nothing to indicate this was anything beyond planning further than” going to the clinic, Zenor said.

Authorities say McClain saw her chance when 28-year-old Kala Golden and her 3-day-old son, Keegan Schuchardt, left the clinic after his first checkup since being born. McClain is accused of shooting Golden multiple times in the clinic’s parking lot and speeding away with her tiny newborn son.

Keegan was found unharmed hours later with McClain’s sister — who said her sister told her she planned to adopt the boy. Keegan is back with family members. Golden died at a local hospital.

McClain remains jailed without bail and faces a capital murder charge that carries a potential death sentence.

McClain, 30, who listed a Houston address, was set to make a court appearance Thursday before a judge in Conroe.

But Montgomery County Sheriff’s Detective John Schmitt said McClain, who authorities say has admitted attacking Golden on Tuesday and stealing the baby from his mother’s pickup truck, does “appear remorseful for what happened.”

McClain’s husband, who is separated from her, said he was shocked by what she is accused of doing.

“I can’t believe she shot someone. That’s not Vera,” her estranged husband, Theo McClain, of San Diego, told The Associated Press. The couple had raised three children, who are being cared for by a relative in Houston after McClain’s arrest.

Authorities say McClain had parked next to Golden at Northwoods Pediatric Center in Spring, about 20 miles north of Houston. As Golden was placing Keegan into her pickup truck, McClain shot her, snatched the child from the truck and sped off. The dying woman had leaned into the vehicle and tried to take the boy back, screaming, “My baby!”

Later Tuesday, two detectives spotted a vehicle outside a nearby apartment complex that matched witnesses’ descriptions of the one the shooter sped off in, said Montgomery County Sheriff Tommy Gage. Though McClain’s apartment was empty, she showed up and talked to investigators.

Detectives then learned of a residence in Harris County where McClain’s sister lives and the child might be, Gage said. Keegan was found later Tuesday evening at that home.

McClain’s sister, Corina Jackson, told authorities that McClain had talked about needing to “do the adoption” soon after taking Keegan.

McClain was later arrested. Police do not believe anyone else was involved.

Authorities say they have interviewed McClain’s fiance, who was not identified Wednesday.

The kidnapped baby has been returned to his family, according to his father, Keith Schuchardt, who said he had been married to Kala Golden for three years.

Asked by reporters what he would tell his wife now, Schuchardt said, “I wish you were here with me to get me through this.”

Schuchardt, who also has a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old, said officials were initially concerned about his criminal record, which includes felony convictions for possession of a controlled substance and burglary of a coin-operated machine.

Gwen Carter, a spokeswoman for Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services, said Schuchardt could see his children as often as he wanted while authorities worked on the case.

McClain is a vocational nurse at a local staffing agency, a job that involves providing basic nursing services under the direction of registered nurses and doctors.

McClain, who has vocational nursing licenses in California and Texas, has not faced disciplinary action in either state, according to licensing boards.

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Associated Press writers Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Spring, Michael Graczyk in Conroe and Nomaan Merchant and Danny Robbins in Dallas contributed to this report.