‘American Pie’ actor Jasmine Mooney detained by ICE while renewing work visa: “Inhumane”
Jasmine Mooney, the actor who starred in hits such as American Pie, has revealed she was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials while she was trying to cross the border from the US to Mexico to renew her work visa.
Mooney has starred in a range of productions, including Six, iZombie and Kid Cannabis. She is a Canadian who was crossing the border from Mexico to America to renew her work visa. The actor was travelling to San Diego due to her lawyer living there who she was planning to visit to arrange her work visa.
Instead of being granted access to the country, she was instead detained by ICE. Since being released, she has described the experience as a “deeply disturbing psychological experiment.”
“I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminium foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days,” she said during an interview with San Diego news outlet KGTV 10.
She added of her experience of being held by ICE: “I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane.”
Mooney described the conditions in more detail, firstly stating that the quality of the food was so poor that she refused to eat it, to the extent that she had lost weight by the time she was released. She also spoke about one night when 30 women were transported to a facility in Arizona. During this period, Mooney was allegedly forced to stay up for 24 hours while “wrapped in chains.”
It remains unknown why Mooney was detained. According to Variety, there is speculation that it could be because of her connection to the Holy! Water brand, which sells “full-spectrum hemp” drinks.
Mooney has since said she is grateful to have been released and remains shocked that it occurred. “I still don’t even know how I’m home,” she said, “My friends and my family and the media are the reason, I think, that I’m home.”
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