Jasmine Mooney, the Canadian actress who appeared in the American Pie franchise, said she was chained up by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the border when she went to get a new visa. KGTV reported that the actress was held in inhumane conditions at a detention center where she had to sleep on a mat with no blanket and no pillow. The incident comes as the US-Canada relationship has gone south over the tariff war and the Donald Trump administration has started massive crackdown on borders.
Mooney said she entered the country through Mexico where border agents asked her to visit a US Consulate to apply for legal status to work in the country again. Reports said she was then refused re-entry to Mexico and was detained. She was kept in a cold room for three days before she was arrested by ICE and put in 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 a half days,” she said.
Mooney claimed that she, along with a group of 30 other women, was then rounded up in the middle of the night and shipped to Arizona.
How did Jasmine Mooney end up at the border?
The 35-year-old actor was working in Los Angeles for the health tonic beverage company she co-founded. Her visa was revoked when she visited her home in Vancouver. The actress came to know that she lost her legal status in the US when she attempted to board a flight.
Then she traveled to the US-Mexico border crossing near San Diego County thinking she would get a new visa there. There she was arrested by ICE agents and kept at a detention center. She told news outlets that she is now stuck inside the Arizona detention centre and every guard is curious how she’s there being a Canadian.
The Canadian government said it knows about Mooney’s detention and is working to get more information from officials in Arizona. “Every country or territory decides who can enter or exit through its borders,” Global Affairs Canada spokeswoman Brittany Fletcher told KGTV.
