Canadian American Pie actress detained by ICE while applying for visa at southern border says she was wrapped in chains
A Canadian entrepreneur and actress — who appeared in the “American Pie” franchise — said she was shackled and detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the southern border while trying to obtain a new visa, according to reports.Jasmine Mooney, 35, co-founder of Holy! Water, said she’s been held in “inhumane” conditions since she was nabbed at the San Ysidro border between Mexico and San Diego on March 3, KGTV reported.“Every single guard that sees me is like ‘What are you doing here? I don’t understand – you’re Canadian.How are you here?’” she told the outlet from inside the San Luis Regional Detention Center in Arizona.“I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane.”Mooney traveled to the border crossing earlier this month after learning in November her three-year TN work visa had been revoked as she was trying to catch a flight from Vancouver to Los Angeles, where she runs her health-focused tonic drink brand, the outlet reported.The former actress, who appeared in a racy scene in “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love” in 2009, decided to try her luck at San Ysidro – where she had obtained her first work visa on the advice of her lawyer – with a new job offer and her visa paperwork in hand. Mooney entered the country through Mexico, where border agents initially advised her to visit a US consulate to apply for legal status to work in the country again.
She was then refused entry back to Mexico and detained, she told the outlet. She described being kept in a cold room for three days at the world’s busiest land border before she was arrested by ICE and thrown into San Diego’s Otay Mesa Detention Center. “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 half days,” she told the outlet, decrying the food inside the facility. Brian Todd, a spokesperson for the private company that owns the detention...