Canadian American Pie actress speaks out after ICE arrest while applying for visa at southern border

“American Pie” actress Jasmine Mooney is finally back home in Canada after being detained at the US-Mexico border for 12 days while trying to get a new visa — saying that nobody “deserves to go through what I witnessed.”Mooney, a 35-year-old actress and entrepreneur, returned to Vancouver just after midnight Saturday after she was held by US Immigration Customs Enforcement at the San Ysidro border between Mexico and San Diego since March.3.“I’m still, to be honest, really processing everything,” Mooney told CTV News as she arrived at the airport.
“I haven’t slept in a while and haven’t eaten proper food in a while, so I’m just really going through the motions,” she said, saying she would “never in a million years” have gone to the border had she thought there was “even a possibility” she could be detained.“I do not wish it upon anyone.No one deserves to go through what I witnessed.”Mooney, a co-founder of the health-focused tonic drink brand Holy! Water, said she went to the southern border —where she obtained her first work visa — on the advice of her lawyer, and came prepared with a new job offer and her visa paperwork in hand.While Mooney, who appeared in a racy scene in “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love” in 2009, had a work visa revoked in November, she said she didn’t think she would have any issue applying for a new one with her recent job offer — just as she had previously done.
Mooney said she was transported three times over 12 days, hadn’t slept in 24 hours, and still had no answers as to why she was detained.“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.” When asked if she felt President Trump’s border policies led to her detention, Mooney said she couldn’t say as she still had received no explanation for her detention even after returning to Canada.
“I have no idea,” she said.“I don’t...