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‘American Pie’ Actress Jasmine Mooney Describes “Deeply Disturbing” 12-Day Detention At I.C.E. Facilities
Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney calls her detention in "inhumane" conditions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials "deeply disturbing."
Mooney, whose credits include American Pie Presents: The Book of Love as well as Kid Cannabis and episodes of Loudermilk and iZombie, tried on March 3 to cross at the U.S.-Mexico border, she said, in hopes of renewing her work visa. The actress told San Diego outlet KGTV that, in the privately-owned Otay Mesa Border Crossing Detention Center, 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 like a dead body for two and a half days,” she said. “When I got to know everyone else in there, and heard all of their stories and how long they were in there, I was like, ‘OK, I’m not allowed to feel sorry for myself at all, because every single person in here is in a way worse situation than me,'” she said, noting one girl had been in detention for 10 months.
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