Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian citizen who appeared in 2009 film American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, spent nearly two weeks in an ICE detention center after being detained at the Mexican border earlier this month.
According to San Diego’s ABC 10 News, Mooney was arrested after attempting to enter the US through a border crossing in San Ysidro, Mexico. As she recounted, her US work visa was initially revoked in November 2024 due to a paperwork issue. At the advice of her lawyer, she recently traveled to Mexico with proof of a new job offer from a US-based company and an application for a new work visa.
Instead, she was arrested by immigration official and held in a detention center where “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 told ABC 10 News.
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Mooney was later transferred to another detention facility to Arizona, a process during which she was spent “24 hours wrapped in chains.”
After nearly two weeks in captivity, Mooney was finally allowed to return home to Canada this Saturday. Even now, she says has yet to be given an exact reason for her lengthy detainment.
In a statement, a spokesperson for ICE told CBS News that Mooney was processed in accordance with Donald Trump’s immigration policies: “All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the U.S., regardless of nationality,”
