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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.

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[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 252 points 4 months ago

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 102 points 4 months ago

You have to say pwease and tank you, missus moodey

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 148 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

At this point the bombs can only bring improvements.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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[-] Colloidal@programming.dev 142 points 4 months 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.ee 110 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[-] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Christ with a bejeweled handbag, does somebody have a link to the juicy transcript?

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 33 points 4 months ago

I hate the fucking title of this video so fucking much it pains me to share it, but this is really the best cut, IMO. There's also the full hour version on YouTube if you search "9th circuit Sarah Fabian".

https://youtu.be/0QGLh7JOQHc

Enjoy!

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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

[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 136 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 101 points 4 months 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.

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[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 95 points 4 months ago

Maybe some people will start to care more now that it's happening to celebrities

[-] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

I don't know if I'd call her a 'celebrity'

She was in "American Pie, the book of love." The 9th movie in the Pie series and direct to dvd.

Though she's getting a lot of attention now, and if hawk tuah girl can become a millionaire off a sloppy bj, good luck to Jasmine!

[-] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

When it comes to the people that still don't care, I figure they won't care until it happens to them directly.

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 84 points 4 months 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 56 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 46 points 4 months ago

Bunch of barbarians.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago
[-] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

Looks like it was in one of the spin off movies

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

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

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 46 points 4 months ago

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 18 points 4 months 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.

[-] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 36 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] polle@feddit.org 19 points 4 months ago

At this point, why does anyone even want/try to get into the usa if something like this is a big possibility to happen?

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 months ago

That's terrible, but let's be real. The only reason why this is news is because she's a white woman.

[-] papertowels@mander.xyz 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I found it very uplifting that in her own written piece, she spent much of it highlighting and telling the stories of others. Sure, it's unfortunate that this has made the headlines due to her being a white woman, but what she does with the spotlight is admirable.

The part that I learned the most from. I had no idea the detention centers were for profit:

The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.

Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.

The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally starting to make sense.

[-] thepresentpast@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago

You're getting downvoted but it's important that we remember this. She's hot, she's white, she's an actress. She said herself she thinks it's thanks to her friends and family working with the media that she got released at all. I bet she'd agree with you that being white played into her favor here.

Think about all the people who don't have those types of resources or public empathy points. We have no idea who is actually locked up right now or what will happen to them.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

MacNamara's 100,000 idiots programme during Vietnam War wasn't a success, so the next best thing for them is to institute the programme domestically and with intended results.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The idiots here are the ICE agents.

10-to-1 they had no idea what to do when a Canadian citizen showed up at the Mexican borderder.

The real scary shit is in the last line:

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

How many people don't have that luxury?

Like, not every lawful immigrant is a C-list actress best known for an American Pie spinoff that didn't even have Stiffler. Surely several are falling through the cracks.

This has got me concerned that a statistically significant number of people who don't have that kind of reach are just...disappearing...

[-] SolidShake@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago
[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

They're ignoring the courts. What will suing do when there's nobody enforcing the ruling when you "win"?

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[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 16 points 4 months ago

Sue? Make red the color of year.

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