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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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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of that shitstain Beria from Death of Stalin

"I have lists on all of you!"

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are these the privately owned detention centers? All I can say the USA has several Dachau's and it could become worse.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 221 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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?

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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.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Absolutely. They're handling scenarios this way to scare people and demonstrate cruelty.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Come to the US, the land of the fuck you."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 255 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to say pwease and tank you, missus moodey

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Like. It wouldn't even hurt your hand. Look at the fluffy thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (6 children)

They're ignoring the courts. What will suing do when there's nobody enforcing the ruling when you "win"?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sue? Make red the color of year.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (31 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think I've figured out what timeline we're in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't recognize this one. What's it from?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The original Fallout intro. Worth seeing the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3uBgQmTnk

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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