Jasmine Mooney, a former actress and Canadian national, faced a shocking 12-day detention after her visa application was mishandled at the San Ysidro border crossing. Initially expecting to be turned away, she was instead flagged for improper paperwork and taken into custody. Mooney's experience reflects troubling patterns of unexplained detentions under the Trump administration's immigration policies, echoing a growing trend of individuals caught in a complex and fluctuating immigration system. Confined to a small cell and later transferred in shackles, she claimed she only wanted to return home, emphasizing the emotional toll this ordeal took on her.
I'm not trying to be here illegally, Ms. Mooney said she told the officer. I just want to go home.
Her ordeal bore similarity to several other seemingly unexplained detentions at the border, which have grabbed headlines and put people like Ms. Mooney into a legal purgatory.
What happened next had blindsided her...she had been led to another room, the start of a 12-day-long plight of being detained by Immigrations and Custom Enforcement.
They say, 'Hands on the wall,' Ms. Mooney told The New York Times on Monday.
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