The Canadian government is unlikely to force her to return to the United States in relation to something that wasn't illegal in Canada.
I suspect that they are not only wanting her birth certificate, but also checking when she entered the country. I don't know if they track the IDs of minors at the border that don't present passports or not.
I'm doubting that she had a passport if they are now trying to get a valid copy of her birth certificate. They usually scan or read the RFID in passports at the border, but I'm not sure what the do with a birth certificate and ID, which is still a valid form of ID for crossing the border by land.
They may not even have a record of when she crossed into the United States with which to verify the story that she only recently entered the US. However, she should be able to produce a birth certificate since she would have had to had either it or a passport in order to have entered the US in the first place.
If the stories about the lack of id for members of fLDS are true, there might not be any id at all. There was another story on yesterday’s daily thread about a sort of underground railroad for moving these young girls from state to state and between the US and Canada. I doubt there will be a record of her entry.
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They probably want to ascertain how she got into the US. I think a lot of these cross-border movements of people by the FLDS are of the sneaking across the border variety, not the presenting ID at a border crossing variety. Even if they let the girl go back to Canada (which I expect they will if the Canadian consul requests it), they still need to gather evidence about the cult leaders’ methods of transporting people across national borders.