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‘American Pie’ actress says she was detained by ICE while trying to renew her work visa: ‘I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane’

variety.com 'American Pie' Actress Says She Was Detained By ICE

'American Pie' actress Jasmine Mooney said she was detained by ICE officials while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to renew her work visa.

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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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‘American Pie’ actress says she was detained by ICE while trying to renew her work visa: ‘I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane’

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‘American Pie’ actress says she was detained by ICE while trying to renew her work visa: ‘I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane’

variety.com /2025/film/news/american-pie-actress-detained-ice-1236339981/

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Bunch of barbarians.
- They prefer americans

Try being a federal employee lol.
- Hey man, what's with the 88? You do know what that is tied to right?
  
  Some people were born in 1988, also.

Maybe some people will start to care more now that it's happening to celebrities
- When it comes to the people that still don't care, I figure they won't care until it happens to them directly.
- I think maybe they care when the person is white
- I don't know if I'd call her a 'celebrity'
  She was in "American Pie, the book of love." The 9th movie in the Pie series and direct to dvd.
  Though she's getting a lot of attention now, and if hawk tuah girl can become a millionaire off a sloppy bj, good luck to Jasmine!
- People should be disturbed that this is happening to ANY human being. Not just celebrities.
  
  They should, but anecdotes featuring a person you somehow know beyond the specific situation are more potent.
  
  they should, yes. they SHOULD have cared back in 2016. maybe they will now.
  
  But the average dumbass will care more about celebrities.

She spent 11 days detained.
“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 a half days,” [...] “I have never in my life seen anything so inhumane.” She went on to describe one incident when she and 30 other women were moved in the middle of the night to a facility in Arizona. During the ordeal, she was forced to be “up for 24 hours wrapped in chains.”
From CBC.CA (Eagles is her mother's surname):
Eagles said the detainees at the San Luis facility have no sleeping mats or blankets or windows, and the lights are on all day and night.
- if you work in a restaurant law enforcement eat at, I think it's safe to completely forget about food safety. food safety regulations have never been as big a deal as anti torture laws. really just have fun with it, you know?
  
  On the other hand, if you have undocumented people working at that restaurant, best not to draw any unneeded attention to the staff by law enforcement.
- Jesus Christ, they already tried that shit with the lights in Trump I and the 9th circuit told them to fucking stop it. I distinctly remember because one of the judges was in a Japanese internment camp as a kid, and he ate that dipshit Trump attorney alive.
  And yet, here we are again.
  
  Christ with a bejeweled handbag, does somebody have a link to the juicy transcript?
- WTF
  Edit: Americans need to be on the street for this shit and everything else that’s happening
  I don’t care how, just get that dictator out of there
  
  I mean, no. this is several steps past when americans needed to be on the streets. this is the point where we should be getting off the streets, because there's not enough cover there.
- Those are some psychological mind games right there
  
  It's called torture.

The family's using her traumatic experience to publicize the inhumane conditions at those 3 detention centres, and raise awareness for her cellmates. They talk about constant lighting (torture), being moved at 3am to a different state (fucking with your lawyer), being chained and overcrowded.
“There’s 30 other people in her cell that have not even been spoken to by a detention caseworker. So there are people in there whose families don’t know where their kids are.” - Jasmine’s father, Stephen Mooney, speaking on March 13th.
These conditions should be common knowledge, and this traumatized family is doing what they can on that front.
You and I are not more safe than she is. Our neighbours are not more safe than she is. Her escape does not make her the enemy of her cellmates. We're all Venezuelan gang members (or whoever it's ok to fuck with) if they take our papers and deem us so.
Non-entertainment news source here.
- and if people don't think political dissidents are on the list, they're delusional. we may not be the priority yet, but they're checking off demographics at an alarming rate.
  
  but they’re checking off demographics at an alarming rate.
  yeah those two arab protestor students that are getting deported- they're essentially getting detained and eventually removed because they spoke out against Israel. it's an attempt to put a damper on speech for the whole country. sort of sending a message to immigrants- you better watch what you're saying or we will get you
  
  Reminds me of that shitstain Beria from Death of Stalin
  "I have lists on all of you!"

Are these the privately owned detention centers? All I can say the USA has several Dachau's and it could become worse.
- Vast majority of immigration detention centers are privately owned
  It's a sharp contrast to private prisons where it's less than 10%.

MacNamara's 100,000 idiots programme during Vietnam War wasn't a success, so the next best thing for them is to institute the programme domestically and with intended results.
- The idiots here are the ICE agents.
  10-to-1 they had no idea what to do when a Canadian citizen showed up at the Mexican borderder.
  The real scary shit is in the last line:
  After her release, Mooney credited media attention and her support network for securing her freedom.
  How many people don't have that luxury?
  Like, not every lawful immigrant is a C-list actress best known for an American Pie spinoff that didn't even have Stiffler. Surely several are falling through the cracks.
  This has got me concerned that a statistically significant number of people who don't have that kind of reach are just...disappearing...

When this is happening to even the beautiful white women, you know shit's a thousand times worse for BIPOC... I know that we had issues with immigration during previous administrations, but they were nothing compared to this vile treatment.

Those people have been storing up their hatred for 150 years, passing to each new generation. Only way to combat it is to eradicate it at the source

sue.
- They're ignoring the courts. What will suing do when there's nobody enforcing the ruling when you "win"?
  
  You can sue for false imprisonment and other stuff I'm sure. Shouldn't be too hard to win in California, especially if her green card was valid when she was taken.
  
  The rest of the government isn't though
- Sue? Make red the color of year.
  
  this. the system is broken. the DOJ is owned. trump et al are above the law. they knew going in that the entire charade only operates under the threat of violence and they currently have a monopoly on that. if you don't have stock in violence, you don't have a place at the table. we all need to buy some stock.

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.
- It tracks. They captured a German tourist with a valid passport and held her for over a month instead of sending her back. The cruelty is the point.
  
  And a message
- Absolutely. They're handling scenarios this way to scare people and demonstrate cruelty.
  
  "Come to the US, the land of the fuck you."
  
  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.
- 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

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!
- You have to say pwease and tank you, missus moodey
  
  Such a punchable face.

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.
- no this is very new....
  
  No, it's just at home now. The CIA has been torturing people in black sites around the globe for decades now. If anything, those conditions were far worse, since it doesn't seem like any migrants detained are getting waterboarded yet.
  
  I guess you just slept through the War on Terror, then.
  
  It's the same thing, only the leopards have turned around and started eating a different set of faces.
  
  Google torture under George Bush.
  
  One of the comments compared US prisons to Dachau, reason has fled and fallen out of a high window

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.
- And there are numerous European/German companies who have already have put a hold on all US travel for their staff. Some critical infrastructure/defence companies even seek to implement "not even for vacation" clauses for their management levels.
  The German government is openly considering a travel warning. Which would fuck over things a lot because then a) employers can hardly make their staff go to the US anymore b) most travel insurance companies won't cover the US anymore with their standard plans (it's already more expensive due to the insane healthcare costs) and require individual high risk country plans - which are a lot of paperwork and everything.
  This will fuck over the US royally - because even if Trump wants to push US based manufacturing these factories need equipment. And this equipment is really not produced in the US much - it comes from Europe/Japan if you want the best and China if you are interested in the "cheap" stuff. But now it will come with either a hefty surcharge (think like double the price - or more) or not come at all because it's not worth the hazzle.
  Especially for factory equipment, healthcare (there are already a lot of medical product manufacturers who simply do not serve the US market due to the insane costs to access it with little to gain) and pharma this is very relevant.

I think I've figured out what timeline we're in.
- I don't recognize this one. What's it from?
  
  The original Fallout intro. Worth seeing the whole thing.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3uBgQmTnk
- At this point the bombs can only bring improvements.
  
  At least the writing will get decent for about 80 years.

She was in American Pie?
- Looks like it was in one of the spin off movies
  
  At that point does it even matter? Like, if she were working another profession would they put it in the headline?

of course pie would be American.
- What does this mean?
  
  I think they were trying to make a joke and failed

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