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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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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (7 children)
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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 34 points 22 hours ago (1 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.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world -3 points 15 hours ago (19 children)
[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's the same thing, only the leopards have turned around and started eating a different set of faces.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I've never heard stories of people with green cards getting sent to camp prisons though before.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Google torture under George Bush.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website -2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

One of the comments compared US prisons to Dachau, reason has fled and fallen out of a high window

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't see the comment, but my guess is they were likely referring to Gitmo or El Nuevo Chipote.

Do you think these prisoners are being sent outside the country so they can be treated humanely?

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[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 209 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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?

Edit:
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 68 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago
[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's a good way for cruelty to come back around. Abuse a hundred thousand people and see if a few don't snap and take it out on those responsible. Seems like domestic terrorism may not be just a right wing hobby for too much longer. Bet authorities suddenly take it more seriously if that does happen.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours 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

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 242 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 90 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You have to say pwease and tank you, missus moodey

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 97 points 1 day 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.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 146 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] tamman2000@lemm.ee 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I don't recognize this one. What's it from?

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[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

At this point the bombs can only bring improvements.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like it was in one of the spin off movies

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Variety is an Entertainment Magazine, so it's relevant for their readers. If you read a news article about this, they don't mention her work history so much, except as it relates to the business she recently opened in the States.

Non-entertainment news source from last week here.

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[–] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

Canada has been hearing about it since the day the US government agents kidnapped her.

 

Yes, I intentionally chose those specific words.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 17 points 23 hours 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.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

White, some level of fame, voluntarily coming in from the “right” side of the border, had some sort of paperwork, her work visa apparently hadn’t yet expired?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world -2 points 19 hours ago

....such and such, a dental assistant masseuse's moral support assistant....

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