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Canadian detained for 11 days by U.S. Immigration speaks out.

www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/jasmine-mooney-ice-detainee-canada-mexico-border-work-visa-1.7501758

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Mooney says she left a lot of women behind when she was released and wants to shine a light into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centres and how people end up trapped there.
"I met a girl who had been in there eight months," she said.
She says the women helped her get out — and urged her to tell their stories. Mooney says there were about 140 women in her unit at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, one of the first places she was held, in the Ysidro Mountains foothills of Otay Mesa overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border. She describes how most of the women she met had lived in the U.S. illegally and overstayed visas — detained with no warning when they reapplied.
"You meet all of the girls who had trekked from India, from Iran, from Africa, they're covered head to toe in bug bites and scars from their journey and they paid all of this money, gave up everything they owned to come to America and then end up in jail and they're all most likely getting shipped back to their countries," said Mooney.
What happened to her was wrong
She tried to circumvent the American Visa process at a very bad time
She to this day is still a MAGA grifter
- She drinks "health" water and is suspicious of Big Pharma so she's MAGA? I'm gonna need someone to connect the dots here, I just see an average wellness influencer.
  
  https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/15718257
- There is no doubt in my mind this is all driven by the private for-profit prison system in the US.
  There is zero reason to detain anyone for weeks/months that has not been charged with any crime, and wants to return home.
- Wanting to be healthy is MAGA? Is there other evidence she is MAGA, because I eat healthy and exercise and avoid pharmaceuticals and I’m a socialist.
  
  I'm reading and I can't find anything in her being MAGA
  Saunders says that Mooney plans to appeal her revoked visa and loves the U.S. She was pursuing a marketing career there selling a hemp-infused water product – after running bars and restaurants in Vancouver.
  Like that line from the article is about the closest I can find. I can see that she's an actress but nothing about being MAGA.
  
  Selling “healthy” water (named “holy water” lol) is evidence that she’s a grifter. That she’s MAGA you can tell by her follows
Look, it's very simple. It's not safe in the US for us. Canadians should know that it's a terrible idea to travel there.
This lady's turning herself into knots with the mental gymnastics of condemning this treatment and yet supporting the administration that did that to her
- She sells toxic positivity, she can’t admit that the people involved in what she went through are fucked up

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