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Summary

Jasmine Mooney, a 35-year-old Canadian woman, has been detained in U.S. immigration facilities since March 3 after attempting to enter with an incomplete Trade NAFTA work visa application.

She was initially held at San Ysidro border crossing before being transferred in chains to detention centers in San Diego and Arizona.

Her mother, Alexis Eagles, reports inhumane conditions including overcrowded concrete cells with constant lighting and inadequate facilities.

Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a "nightmare" while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they're aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.

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[-] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 170 points 2 days ago

If this is how they treat a white Canadian businesswoman, imagine what they're doing to non-white migrants. System's rotten to the core.

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[-] Alloi@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago

theres a channel 5 segment on it, the dude decided to cross from mexico with "coyotes" back into the US, as an american, and they got caught. spent several days in shite conditions, and talks about whole process. its pretty interesting.

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[-] mrhenry77@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

How to make anyone scared to ever visit your country again..

[-] prole 278 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fucking shameful. This is how we treat our allies? I am ashamed to be an American.

[-] RainbowHedgehog@lemm.ee 166 points 2 days ago

TBF, this is how we treat Americans.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 114 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That and threatening to eliminate our country altogether. We're not really feeling the "allies" thing these days. I fairly often visit the USA, but I'm rethinking that now, along with many other Canadians. And I'm taking my money out of the USA too, wherever possible.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 39 points 2 days ago

If I was a foreigner, I would not visit the US at all right now.

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago
[-] frezik@midwest.social 36 points 2 days ago

The US has countries that it used to know.

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[-] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago

Canada isn't an ally anymore

[-] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago

Friendship with Canada ended. Now Putin is best friend

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[-] wampus@lemmy.ca 235 points 2 days ago

It's starting to seem like Canada should issue a travel advisory against going to the USA.

In some ways I hope it doesn't come to that. In others .... I mean, I'd win a friendly bet if it happened, so there's that.

[-] jhymesba@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago

If I were in charge, that's exactly what I would do. "US ICE agents are detaining Canadian citizens at the border. Until and unless US agents stop detaining Canadians at the border and return those they have detained, we are advising Canadian citizens to not travel to the USA." Post it right next to all other Canadian travel advisories.

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 days ago

And do what Lithuania did at the Belarusian border: There are signs telling pretty much the analogue to what you're suggesting. On the roadside while approaching the border. As physical signs.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Honestly yeah, if a paperwork fuck up can get you detained for more than 24 hours there's something seriously wrong and travelling there is dangerous for the border police alone.

[-] imvii@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago

There already is a travel advisory in Canada. It's more personal though.

If I tell my friend I'm going to the states they'll stage an intervention.

"You're desire to travel to the US hurts me in the following ways..."

[-] wiccan2@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Not just Canada, there's similar stories for a lot of nationalities, every country should be putting out warnings.

The US has lost it's mind.

Couple the immigration issues with the fact that planes keep falling out of the sky in their air space due to air traffic control being gutted and even flying to Canada starts becoming dangerous too.

I'll be avoiding the whole of North America for the foreseeable future, it's just not safe.

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[-] Billybob22@feddit.uk 98 points 2 days ago

America is now an axis of evil state. No better than Iran or Russia.

[-] AreaSIX@lemm.ee 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Axis of evil" was a phrase coined by W in order to justify his highly illegal "war on terror", and we're still paying the price for that. Just adopting a propaganda concept this stupid as a viable way to categorize nations is not a good move.

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 32 points 2 days ago

Also ironic given Iran is in this state because of US imperialism

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[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i believe all states are evil, to be honest!

some are just actively persuing evil stuff more than others

but given half a chance, capitalists in any country would turn to fascism

[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

B.C. woman held in detention for 11 days after trying to enter U.S. to be released, father says

Grateful to the family using their privledge and platform to talk about the conditions at the San Ysidro border crossing, the San Diego cells, and in San Luis Regional Detention Center. Keeping the lights on all the time is torture.

"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.

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[B.C. Premier David Eby] also said he was "profoundly concerned about these kind of actions" by the U.S. administration, saying they "violate the very idea that Canadians are safe in the U.S. when we visit."

"The nature of our relationship is so fraught right now that this case makes us all wonder, you know, what about our relatives who are working in the States? What about when we cross the border, what kind of experience are we gonna have?" Eby said.

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai also weighed in on Thursday, with a letter to the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement urging Jasmine's "prompt release," and saying "the treatment of our citizens while in the U.S. must be fair and transparent."

[-] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 days ago

Inhuman treatment of others is the first sign you might be a closet Nazi. Our nation has soiled the bed, and keeps rolling around in it insisting nothing is wrong.

I do not find it a coincidence that its been happening specifically to young women. Yet to see 6'2 Canadian male hockey player get grabbed.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 82 points 2 days ago

That could just be the media's bias in reporting.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 95 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, same happens with kidnapping and murder victims. There’s a reason it’s called Missing White Woman Syndrome. The media is extremely biased towards covering attractive young white women who have gone missing, while virtually every other demographic gets ignored. Asian and Latina women are often covered disproportionately as well, but not to the extent that missing white women are covered. Black women get almost no coverage, and the same goes for men of basically every race and age.

[-] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

I remember many years ago, there were two little girls that went missing about the same time. One was white, the other black. The little white girl just got lost and was found pretty quickly, and her story dominated the news for weeks. Meanwhile, the little black girl (I think it was in West Virginia) had been kidnapped by a sadistic couple who abused and tortured her until one night she chewed through her bindings, escaped, and trekked through the forest for days before finding help. She barely got a "missing girl found" blurb on the news. The fact that she barely got any news coverage actually became a bigger story later on than her actual kidnapping did at the time. It was infuriating.

Don't even get me started on the missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) phenomenon that not only gets next to zero media coverage, but also a severe lack of law enforcement attention.

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[-] tacobellhop@midwest.social 20 points 2 days ago

Native women have been getting kidnapped for centuries. It’s not even news.

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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sure but I also remember trumps first term where thousands of specifically migrant women in US custody were unaccounted for for months. Im not in the habbit of giving people with track records of human trafficking benefits of doubt.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago

I guarantee you they do not care. This is far more likely to be media bias. If they're detaining her for an incomplete visa instead of just turning her around then they're detaining people every day, no matter their nationality or body build. It sounds cool to think they'd be afraid of a large guy but the US police are sadly just more likely to kill them with guns.

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[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 52 points 2 days ago

Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a “nightmare” while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they’re aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.

Oh fuck that, what else does Global Affairs do if not at the very least advocate for Canadians imprisoned in a hostile foreign nation? She was stopped and jailed for not having a complete work visa, that is not an immigration matter its a refusal of entry issue. Like whats the crime here? And not deporting someone due to them not being allowed in the US (but then holding them in the US) should be an act of war.

[-] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 2 days ago

Now it come back around to the white people

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 95 points 2 days ago

no amount of conformity will ever make you safe under fascism. the noose will always tighten to meet the fascists' needs for torture. once the old enemy is eliminated a new hegemony will be homogenized and the torture will continue either at the same pace or accelerated.

it's not really about skin tone, accent, visa access, sexual identity, gender identity, or even political stance. it's about that the fascists must other, and they will other you any way that thy can.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 34 points 2 days ago

Yep, just like how conservatives wanted to ignore aids since they thought it would only kill gays and drug users. They fail to see how their cruelty will come back around on themselves.

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[-] RainbowHedgehog@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago

White-Canadians now have the rare experience to feel what it is like to be brown in America.

[-] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Canada needs a Dennis Rodman to send over to try to get the hostages back like Obama did with North Korea

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In a statement, Global Affairs Canada said consular officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and provide consular assistance.

“Every country or territory decides who can enter or exit through its borders. The Government of Canada cannot intervene on behalf of Canadian citizens with regard to the entry and exit requirements of another country,” the statement read.

Whilst smiling very slightly manically, and quietly whispering with the eyes ”I’m going to fucking murder you, and I’m going to take my time about it”

This is a Type 2 “Sorry” scenario

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