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"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.

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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 1 points 8 minutes ago

Sue? Make red the color of year.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

Are these the privately owned detention centers? All I can say the USA has several Dachau's and it could become worse.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 13 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

Those are some psychological mind games right there

The family's using her traumatic experience to publicize the inhumane conditions at those 3 detention centres, and raise awareness for her cellmates. They talk about constant lighting (torture), being moved at 3am to a different state (fucking with your lawyer), being chained and overcrowded.

“There’s 30 other people in her cell that have not even been spoken to by a detention caseworker. So there are people in there whose families don’t know where their kids are.” - Jasmine’s father, Stephen Mooney, speaking on March 13th.

These conditions should be common knowledge, and this traumatized family is doing what they can on that front.

You and I are not more safe than she is. Our neighbours are not more safe than she is. Her escape does not make her the enemy of her cellmates. We're all Venezuelan gang members (or whoever it's ok to fuck with) if they take our papers and deem us so.

Non-entertainment news source here.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 42 points 5 hours ago

When this is happening to even the beautiful white women, you know shit's a thousand times worse for BIPOC... I know that we had issues with immigration during previous administrations, but they were nothing compared to this vile treatment.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

These stories make me wish people hadn't reelected Bush and Obama when both made it very clear they were supportive of fascist policies like torture, extraordinary rendition, drone bombings without accountability, permanent imprisonment, etc.

None of this is new. It's just louder now.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 2 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 8 minutes ago

I guess you just slept through the War on Terror, then.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 162 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm confused, did she even try to cross the border or was she just there to renew her visa? Why not just send her back for fuck's sake?

Edit:
Okay, if I understood it correctly, she was already in the US and had a valid visa, which was about to expire. Her lawyer told her to go to the border to renew it, and as she was working in LA, that was the nearest border crossing. This makes it even more insane.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Seriously , that’s what happened? I was going to say, the article wasn’t clear on whether there was actually a problem but it sounds like not

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 39 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely. They're handling scenarios this way to scare people and demonstrate cruelty.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"Come to the US, the land of the fuck you."

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago
[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 194 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Officials allegedly told her she was "unprofessional because I didn't have a proper letterhead" on her paperwork.

How dare her paperwork not wear a suit!

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 59 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You have to say pwease and tank you, missus moodey

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 5 hours ago

Such a punchable face.

[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 84 points 13 hours ago

While the actress has some notoriety, huge part of the international trade relies on short term work visa. When Airbus builds a new factory in the US, or That a US factory chooses German industrial robots, you need to send people on short-term work visa to kickstart it.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 121 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I think I've figured out what timeline we're in.

[–] tamman2000@lemm.ee 2 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

I don't recognize this one. What's it from?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

The original Fallout intro. Worth seeing the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3uBgQmTnk

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

At this point the bombs can only bring improvements.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 24 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

At least the writing will get decent for about 80 years.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 27 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like it was in one of the spin off movies

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

At that point does it even matter? Like, if she were working another profession would they put it in the headline?

Variety is an Entertainment Magazine, so it's relevant for their readers. If you read a news article about this, they don't mention her work history so much, except as it relates to the business she recently opened in the States.

Non-entertainment news source from last week here.

[–] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 35 points 13 hours ago

You're only hearing about her because she has media connections in the first place.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world -2 points 4 hours ago

....such and such, a dental assistant masseuse's moral support assistant....

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't want to minimise her suffering but I'm sure there are many other people in similar situations that we haven't heard about.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

White, some level of fame, voluntarily coming in from the “right” side of the border, had some sort of paperwork, her work visa apparently hadn’t yet expired?

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 43 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No, but I suspect the last line qualifies it's inclusion, where her"status" and presence in the media field gave her an opportunity to amplify her story and provide the visibility it needed to get her freed.

[–] rockhard@lemm.ee 13 points 7 hours ago

Yes and it also raises visibility for the very real issues that people have raised concerns about. It's one thing to detain and/or deport people without proper documentation. It's another to act as though people with the proper documentation who are abiding the laws are also being detained and/or deported. Say nothing for the US citizens who are also being detained and/or deported.