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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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[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 95 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But the average dumbass will care more about celebrities.

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 138 points 1 day ago (4 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.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 102 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 18 points 21 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.

[–] _absolve723@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

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?

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[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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 12 points 21 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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Those are some psychological mind games right there

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

It's called torture.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 130 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day 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.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Those people have been storing up their hatred for 150 years, passing to each new generation. Only way to combat it is to eradicate it at the source

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 222 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 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?

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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.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It tracks. They captured a German tourist with a valid passport and held her for over a month instead of sending her back. The cruelty is the point.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day 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

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 257 points 1 day 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 105 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to say pwease and tank you, missus moodey

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Like. It wouldn't even hurt your hand. Look at the fluffy thing.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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 1 day ago (1 children)

Sue? Make red the color of year.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day 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.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (31 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.

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[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 103 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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