A Canadian actress who appeared in one of the American Pie movies says she was locked up and put in chains by ICE while trying to enter the US from Mexico after her visa was revoked.
Jasmine Mooney, 35, claimed she has been held in inhumane conditions since she was detained at the San Ysidro border crossing between Mexico and San Diego on March 3.
‘Every single guard that sees me is like “What are you doing here? I don’t understand – you’re Canadian. How are you here?”‘ said Mooney, who appeared in a racy scene in American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love in 2009.
The entrepreneur told Team 10 that US officials revoked her work visa in November as she was trying to travel from Vancouver to Los Angeles, where she had been living at the time as she worked on the health tonic drink she co-founded.
She said that, on her lawyer’s advice, she went to the border crossing in March with a new job offer and the paperwork to ask for a new work visa.
But a border agent told her she needed to obtain a new visa at a US consulate, and detained her, according to Mooney.
Canadian citizen Jessica Mooney says she was detained at the US-Mexico border and held in inhumane conditions
Mooney had one scene in 2009’s American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love, where she is seen, on the right, lifting her top and exposing herself
Mooney was detained while trying to cross the US-Mexico border in San Diego
The officer reportedly did not allow her to return to Mexico and instead sent her to the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego.
‘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 added.
Mooney was then transferred to a facility in Arizona. She claimed she was woken up in the middle of the night and held in chains for the entire journey.
As Team 10 notes, Mooney’s tonic drink, Holy! Water, contains Delta-9 ‘full spectrum hemp’ – so it’s possible the border agent could have taken issue with her previous employment.
Any product that contains more than 0.3 percent of THC is considered a controlled substance.
CBP told the outlet that there could be as many as 60 different reasons to detain a traveler and they treat ‘all travelers with integrity, respect and professionalism.’
Mooney had been living in Los Angeles before her work visa was revoked in November
Mooney’s tonic drink, Holy! Water, is advertised as containing Delta-9 ‘full spectrum hemp’ – so it’s possible the border agent could have taken issue with her previous employment
Becky Burke, 28, was handcuffed and taken to a detention cell in Tacoma, Washington, on February 26 and is still in custody, according to her distraught family
Mooney said she has not been charged with any crimes yet still does not know when she will be released.
A German tattoo artist was detained at the same border crossing in January and detained for months, DailyMail.com previously reported.
Jessica Brösche, 26, said she spent days in a cell at the San Diego border before she was taken into ICE custody and brought to the the Otay Mesa Detention Center, where she was held until she was deported on Tuesday.