‘American Pie’ Actress Says She Was Detained by ICE While Trying to Renew Her Work Visa: ‘I Have Never in My Life Seen Anything So Inhumane’
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'American Pie' actress Jasmine Mooney said she was detained by ICE officials while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to renew her work visa.

Summary

“American Pie” actress Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian citizen, was detained by ICE while attempting to renew her work visa at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 3.

She described the experience as a “deeply disturbing psychological experiment,” including sleeping on a mat with “aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body,” being transported in chains, and receiving inedible food.

Officials allegedly told her she was “unprofessional because I didn’t have a proper letterhead” on her paperwork.

After her release, Mooney credited media attention and her support network for securing her freedom.

  • Colloidal@programming.devEnglish
    59·
    4 hours ago

    She spent 11 days detained.

    “I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days,” […] “I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane.” She went on to describe one incident when she and 30 other women were moved in the middle of the night to a facility in Arizona. During the ordeal, she was forced to be “up for 24 hours wrapped in chains.”

    From CBC.CA (Eagles is her mother’s surname):

    Eagles said the detainees at the San Luis facility have no sleeping mats or blankets or windows, and the lights are on all day and night.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
      33·
      2 hours ago

      Jesus Christ, they already tried that shit with the lights in Trump I and the 9th circuit told them to fucking stop it. I distinctly remember because one of the judges was in a Japanese internment camp as a kid, and he ate that dipshit Trump attorney alive.

      And yet, here we are again.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 hours ago

      WTF

      Edit: Americans need to be on the street for this shit and everything else that’s happening

      I don’t care how, just get that dictator out of there