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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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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago

Bunch of barbarians.

[-] RedditSucks88@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Try being a federal employee lol.

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 63 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social 3 points 2 hours ago

I think maybe they care when the person is white

[-] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours 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!

[-] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 30 points 14 hours ago

People should be disturbed that this is happening to ANY human being. Not just celebrities.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

They should, but anecdotes featuring a person you somehow know beyond the specific situation are more potent.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 hours ago

they should, yes. they SHOULD have cared back in 2016. maybe they will now.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 19 points 14 hours ago

But the average dumbass will care more about celebrities.

[-] Colloidal@programming.dev 103 points 17 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.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

if you work in a restaurant law enforcement eat at, I think it's safe to completely forget about food safety. food safety regulations have never been as big a deal as anti torture laws. really just have fun with it, you know?

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 68 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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.

[-] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 18 points 13 hours 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!

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

I have been literally dragged away and locked in a cage overnight for being a miniscule fraction as evasive dishonest and disrespectful as this piece of shit nazi scum was to a judge. these people are at fault for not just locking this bitch up-and for bonus karma, doing it in conditions it defines are okay.

treating nazis with kid gloves is how we got here.

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 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

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

I mean, no. this is several steps past when americans needed to be on the streets. this is the point where we should be getting off the streets, because there's not enough cover there.

[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 101 points 20 hours 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.

[-] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago

and if people don't think political dissidents are on the list, they're delusional. we may not be the priority yet, but they're checking off demographics at an alarming rate.

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

but they’re checking off demographics at an alarming rate.

yeah those two arab protestor students that are getting deported- they're essentially getting detained and eventually removed because they spoke out against Israel. it's an attempt to put a damper on speech for the whole country. sort of sending a message to immigrants- you better watch what you're saying or we will get you

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Reminds me of that shitstain Beria from Death of Stalin

"I have lists on all of you!"

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 28 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] kava@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Vast majority of immigration detention centers are privately owned

It's a sharp contrast to private prisons where it's less than 10%.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours 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 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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...

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 73 points 22 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.

[-] SolidShake@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago
[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours 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 15 points 16 hours ago

Sue? Make red the color of year.

[-] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago

this. the system is broken. the DOJ is owned. trump et al are above the law. they knew going in that the entire charade only operates under the threat of violence and they currently have a monopoly on that. if you don't have stock in violence, you don't have a place at the table. we all need to buy some stock.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 54 points 23 hours 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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