‘American Pie’ Actress Jasmine Mooney Describes “Deeply Disturbing” 12-Day Detention At I.C.E. Facilities

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Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney said in an interview this week that she was detained in “inhumane” conditions for nearly two weeks by U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. 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.

Mooney says she crossed at San Diego because that’s where her lawyer is. Instead of being granted entry — or sent back to Mexico — she was detained.

That began an odyssey she said felt like a “deeply disturbing psychological experiment.” 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.