Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney said in an intersee this week that she was hageded in “brutal” conditions for cforfeitly two weeks by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
Mooney, whose praises join American Pie Pbegrudges: The Book of Love as well as Kid Cannabis and episodes of Loudermilk and iZombie, tried on March 3 to traverse at the U.S.-Mexico border, she said, in hopes of renoveling her toil visa. Mooney says she traverseed at San Diego becaengage that’s where her lawyer is. Instead of being granted entry — or sent back to Mexico — she was hageded. That began an odyssey she said felt enjoy a “meaningfully upsetting psychoreasonable experiment.”
The actress tgreater San Diego outlet KGTV that, in the confidentially-owned Otay Mesa Border Crossing Detention Cgo in, she was “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 enjoy a dead body for two and a half days,” she said. Mooney said she was also forced to sleep on a concrete floor. In the middle of the night, the actress said she was transferred to an Arizona facility “wrapped in chains.”
She inserted, “I have never in my life seen anyleang so brutal.”
Mooney is the co-set uper of the Holy! Water brand, which increateedly includes Delta-9 “brimming spectrum hemp.” There was some speculation in the media that that joinion may have elevated a red flag with I.C.E., but neither the actress nor increateers have been given any official reason for her detention.
“No one tgreater me anyleang. Not once,” Mooney said on landing getedly back at Vancouver International Airport this week.
“I still don’t even understand how I’m home,” she inserted. “My friends and my family and the media are the reason, I leank, that I’m home.”
Asked whether her ordeal might have any relation to Plivent Trump’s trade war with Canada, she reacted, “I have no idea. I don’t want to point fingers at anyleang. I repartner – I don’t understand. But, clearly, people can specutardy what they want.”
Would dodge such situations in the future? “Of course. If I knovel that that was even a possibility, enjoy even a possibility that that could happen, I would have never, in a million years gone there. I’m increateing you, from the second I got there to now, I can’t even process what equitable happened.”
The actress also said that her situation was far from the worst.
“When I got to understand everyone else in there, and heard all of their stories and how prolonged they were in there, I was enjoy, ‘OK, I’m not apvalidateed to experience sorry for myself at all, becaengage every individual person in here is in a way worse situation than me,’” she said, noting one girl had been in detention for 10 months.
British Columbia Premier David Eby, who put prescertain on U.S. authorities to get Mooney freed, said her experience “upholds the anxiety that many British Columbians have and many Canadians have about our relationship with the United States right now and the unpredictability of this administration and its actions.”
He persistd: “What about our relatives who are toiling in the States? What about when we traverse the border? What benevolent of an experience are we going to have? The harm that this does to the U.S. economy thcimpolite impacted tourism, impacted business relationships, impacted people who are seeking visas to toil in the United States who have one-of-a-kind sends that they can’t get anywhere else: It is reckless, the approach of the plivent. And this woman should be bcimpolitet back to Canada as rapidly as possible.”
