Canadian Actor Detained By ICE Speaks Out On 'Inhumane' Conditions

Jasmine Mooney spoke to press from an Arizona detention center last Tuesday.

Canadian actor and entrepreneur Jasmine Mooney is speaking out about her detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after attempting to enter California from Mexico earlier this month.

Mooney, a Vancouver native known for her role in 2009’s “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love,” now runs the wellness brand Holy! Water. She was traveling from Vancouver to where she works in Los Angeles when a U.S. border officer at the Vancouver airport informed her that her three-year work visa had been revoked.

Seeking to renew her travel authorization, Mooney then attempted to enter the U.S. through the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego, where she originally obtained her visa, but was detained on March 3.

She was held for three nights at San Diego’s Otay Mesa Detention Center, where she described alarming conditions.

“I was put in a cell and had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, just an aluminum foil wrap over my body like a dead body for two and a half days,” Mooney told San Diego’s ABC affiliate, KGTV.