Summary
Jasmine Mooney, a 35-year-old Canadian woman, has been detained in U.S. immigration facilities since March 3 after attempting to enter with an incomplete Trade NAFTA work visa application.
She was initially held at San Ysidro border crossing before being transferred in chains to detention centers in San Diego and Arizona.
Her mother, Alexis Eagles, reports inhumane conditions including overcrowded concrete cells with constant lighting and inadequate facilities.
Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a “nightmare” while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they’re aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.
In a statement, Global Affairs Canada said consular officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and provide consular assistance.
“Every country or territory decides who can enter or exit through its borders. The Government of Canada cannot intervene on behalf of Canadian citizens with regard to the entry and exit requirements of another country,” the statement read.
Whilst smiling very slightly manically, and quietly whispering with the eyes ”I’m going to fucking murder you, and I’m going to take my time about it”
This is a Type 2 “Sorry” scenario
How to make anyone scared to ever visit your country again…
B.C. woman held in detention for 11 days after trying to enter U.S. to be released, father says
Grateful to the family using their privledge and platform to talk about the conditions at the San Ysidro border crossing, the San Diego cells, and in San Luis Regional Detention Center. Keeping the lights on all the time is torture.
“There’s 30 other people in her cell that have not even been spoken to by a detention caseworker. So there are people in there whose families don’t know where their kids are.” - Jasmine’s father, Stephen Mooney.
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[B.C. Premier David Eby] also said he was “profoundly concerned about these kind of actions” by the U.S. administration, saying they “violate the very idea that Canadians are safe in the U.S. when we visit.”
“The nature of our relationship is so fraught right now that this case makes us all wonder, you know, what about our relatives who are working in the States? What about when we cross the border, what kind of experience are we gonna have?” Eby said.
Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai also weighed in on Thursday, with a letter to the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement urging Jasmine’s “prompt release,” and saying “the treatment of our citizens while in the U.S. must be fair and transparent.”
…“violate the very idea that Canadians are safe in the U.S. when we visit.”
Mexico and friends: “¿primer tiempo?”
Idk why you’d ever want to go to america, but now the time is even worse
I was planning on travelling to California to meet a good friend of mine. I explained that I’ve had to change plans amist…well, all this, and my friend said something along the lines of “I don’t blame you, I wouldn’t even consider visiting this country for the next 4 years”.
I know that feel, but I would have never thought I would understand feeling like so towards the US until the current regime. Last time I felt it, the country in question was Iran lol
Honestly, same. It’s still really surreal to me.
That’s what the family are thinking about now that she’s being (hopefully) released. She apparently spent thousands building up some kind of business down there and now that’s up in the air.
B.C. woman held in detention for 11 days after trying to enter U.S. to be released, father says
“Of course, we’ve got to question that now — do you really want to work in the States after this has happened to you?” [Mooney’s dad, Stephen] said.
“That process down there is terrible, and I believe it’s worse because of the new administration, because of Trump … I would be cautious for anyone to go into the States.”
I have family down there that I may never get to see again, and I’m still not going. Fuck that, I’d rather die homeless and alone in Canada than go back into enemy territory. Sorry mom, I’ll visit your grave someday… possibly. Or you can visit mine, whichever comes first. Either way, it’s all good.
If this is how they treat a white Canadian businesswoman, imagine what they’re doing to non-white migrants. System’s rotten to the core.
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theres a channel 5 segment on it, the dude decided to cross from mexico with “coyotes” back into the US, as an american, and they got caught. spent several days in shite conditions, and talks about whole process. its pretty interesting.
Channel five is fucking wild. I love it.
Bald and bankrupt did a video that is much more in depth on the trail the illegal immigrants use. Anybody who’s willing to go through that hell to get to the States isn’t someone in worried about paying welfare for, those people got fucking gumption.
It’s depressing how much better Americans the illegals often are compared to the native trash we have in the south.
They should be terrified of great replacement, that’s like upgrading from a burning pinto to a Bugatti.
They are terrified. The US got Texas with great replacement in the 1840’s. White people came legally at first and then streamed across the border overwhelming the natives and Mexicans and they brought slaves and when Mexico told them slavery is illegal they declared the Texas revolution and more white Americans came to help fight it (including Davy Crockett) and they won and a few years later the US annexed Mexico
They fear Mexicans doing the same thing back. They won’t, but conservative white people don’t believe that.
You are giving them too much credit, they didn’t study history. Conservatives fear them because their world is so small and the unknown scares them. They’re terrified because they’ve never been abroad, they live their whole ass lives knowing the same people they grew up with, driving the same roads, working the same shit job.
They don’t understand everyone is just a person.
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Similar to what was done in both Florida and Hawai’i too.
They just might now.
Inhuman treatment of others is the first sign you might be a closet Nazi. Our nation has soiled the bed, and keeps rolling around in it insisting nothing is wrong.
Canada needs a Dennis Rodman to send over to try to get the hostages back like Obama did with North Korea
I thought that’s why you sent Gretzky? You can have him back btw.
Basketball diplomacy builds good will.
Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a “nightmare” while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they’re aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.
Oh fuck that, what else does Global Affairs do if not at the very least advocate for Canadians imprisoned in a hostile foreign nation? She was stopped and jailed for not having a complete work visa, that is not an immigration matter its a refusal of entry issue. Like whats the crime here? And not deporting someone due to them not being allowed in the US (but then holding them in the US) should be an act of war.
America is now an axis of evil state. No better than Iran or Russia.
“Axis of evil” was a phrase coined by W in order to justify his highly illegal “war on terror”, and we’re still paying the price for that. Just adopting a propaganda concept this stupid as a viable way to categorize nations is not a good move.
Also ironic given Iran is in this state because of US imperialism
Comparing Iran to Russia and the US is strange in every way. Iran has a very defensive military, geared towards defending Iran. There aren’t exactly private military contractors from Iran everywhere just murdering anyone that isn’t snow white. Iran hasn’t surrounded the US with military bases. People just completely swallowed that axis of evil horseshit.
Um look I‘m completely against both Russian and American imperialism, but they did support Assad in Syria: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
Iirc they sent their revolutionary guards there to fight. And Hezbollah was deeply involved in defending the Assad regime. With the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah they do have proxy armies in the Middle East.
Iran is a lovely country and its horrible what western imperialism has done to it, but their regime is as shitty as it gets. If Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists and they’d be under the influence of Iran instead it would be the same shit all over again, saying this just to make a point.
Iran got involved in Syria to fight IS, the same people that rebranded as HTS, the leader of which now has put on a suit, changed his name and rules the new Syria. One of the first thing they did: started massacring minorities in Syria by the thousands, just in the last week. Also, Syria is in the Middle East, next to Iran. Iran isn’t involved in military operations in Mexico. If IS wasn’t stopped in Iraq and Syria, they’d be massacring civilians in Iran, since Iranians are Shia and therefore heretics to be killed.
Your view unfortunately seems to have been influenced by the classification of nations as axis of evil that I referred to above. It’s confused and incoherent, and lacks a whole lot of nuance. That’s what happens when nations are classified as “evil”, which is a metaphysical religious term making nuance impossible. You say “if Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists”, thereby implying that you consider this a worth while goal, while simultaneously vilifying the only forces in the region working to achieve that liberation, namely Hamas, Hizbollah and Ansar Allah in Yemen, as “proxy armies” of Iran, completely delegitimizing their agency and the fight for the very liberation you seem to support.
Finally, it’s absolutely wild to state that a Palestine under the influence of Iran would be “the same shit all over again” as the almost century long oppression, occupation, dispossession and genocide carried out by the Zionists against the Palestinian people. Absolutely wild! I urge you to take a step back and consider that statement, and why you would make such an absurd and outrageous claim to begin with. Because I feel like you’re doing that without thinking about it a whole lot, and would reconsider that position if you thought about the comparison you’re making. Iran has zero designs on dispossessing or occupying Palestine and its people. To compare that with what Israel has been doing is just not a good look.
Oh please. Out of all the people the US had harmed, the current Iranian regime has caused the vast majority of its own problems. China and even Russia you can find a arguably sympathetic angle for if you’re motivated enough. The Iranian regime is simply inhuman and lost.
the iranian regime is the work of the cia. they thought they could manipulate the religious fundamentalists, so they supported a coup against a democratically elected president, with a budget of $1M in 1953
there is way more, check it out, if you’re interested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_IranYou should read some history, mate. Learn what the CIA did to enrage the Iranians so much…
And the Iranian regime is a paragon of freedom and justice. Got it. Lol.
Recycling is very important if we are going to avoid environmental catastrophe.
Hence Starmer used the phrase ‘Coalition of the willing’
Save the planet one phrase at a time!
More like the war of terror
i believe all states are evil, to be honest!
some are just actively persuing evil stuff more than others
but given half a chance, capitalists in any country would turn to fascism
It’s starting to seem like Canada should issue a travel advisory against going to the USA.
In some ways I hope it doesn’t come to that. In others … I mean, I’d win a friendly bet if it happened, so there’s that.
Honestly yeah, if a paperwork fuck up can get you detained for more than 24 hours there’s something seriously wrong and travelling there is dangerous for the border police alone.
If I were in charge, that’s exactly what I would do. “US ICE agents are detaining Canadian citizens at the border. Until and unless US agents stop detaining Canadians at the border and return those they have detained, we are advising Canadian citizens to not travel to the USA.” Post it right next to all other Canadian travel advisories.
And do what Lithuania did at the Belarusian border: There are signs telling pretty much the analogue to what you’re suggesting. On the roadside while approaching the border. As physical signs.
If you guys do that take pictures and send them to America so we can put them in political ads.
Here’s an article that includes a picture like you asked: https://www.orla.fm/a-disturbing-message-on-the-lithuanian-border-do-not-travel-to-belarus-you-may-not-come-back/
Ooo thank you.
There already is a travel advisory in Canada. It’s more personal though.
If I tell my friend I’m going to the states they’ll stage an intervention.
“You’re desire to travel to the US hurts me in the following ways…”
Not just Canada, there’s similar stories for a lot of nationalities, every country should be putting out warnings.
The US has lost it’s mind.
Couple the immigration issues with the fact that planes keep falling out of the sky in their air space due to air traffic control being gutted and even flying to Canada starts becoming dangerous too.
I’ll be avoiding the whole of North America for the foreseeable future, it’s just not safe.
When the courts said it was legal for a billionaire to spend 250 million to buy votes, I knew there was nothing left of our Democracy. I asked around, no one I knew had 250 million to buy votes for Kamala. Sorry guys.
Not just Canada…
Fucking shameful. This is how we treat our allies? I am ashamed to be an American.
TBF, this is how we treat Americans.
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That and threatening to eliminate our country altogether. We’re not really feeling the “allies” thing these days. I fairly often visit the USA, but I’m rethinking that now, along with many other Canadians. And I’m taking my money out of the USA too, wherever possible.
If I was a foreigner, I would not visit the US at all right now.
I am a foreigner and I won’t anymore. Used to go to Florida during autumn vacation. Now we’ll just go to Italy or Spain. No Jetlag and the Flights are cheaper as well
As a Californian why even go to Florida to begin with, seriously there are infinitely better places in Mexico alone not even factoring in the Caribbean or Central America.
The climate of the Carribeans with the (relative) safety of the US. That’s all there is to it.
Also we don’t like it when you’re in these Hotels for tourists from rich countries where your meal costs more than the staff earns. It just feels wrong. And inside you have this completely artificial experience that shatters as soon as you leave the hotel area. It’s just not relaxing and morally wrong.
Also the Reason why we’re staying in Europe next year despite loving the carribean climate.
I was thinking of the more rural portions of Baja and less touristy portions of Belize, but then again my kin have always preferred the risks associated staying away from corpo crap. My grandfather used to train jump down to Mexicali and Tijuana for dinner for context of what I think of as a good time. Is it really a road trip if ya don’t nearly get shanked at a rural Nevadan gas station.
Yeah we don’t really like those “corpo crap” holidays as well (if “corpo crap” means “classical commercial tourist destinations”). We prefer to go somewhere smaller away from all the stress and pickpockets. Rent a Hotelroom or small vacation-house and explore the place in our own pace.
But again, we’re pretty risk-averse. Rome was already stressful for us because we were always afraid of getting pickpocketed. I couldn’t imagine going to a country that isn’t politically stable. I just couldn’t relax.
So yeah, we don’t like that “corpo crap” either, but we also are pretty risk-averse. That’s why we usually vacate in regions that are stable and pretty rich (similar Level to Switzerland) and not too touristy. We’re a difficult clientele, I know ;PP
I wouldn’t visit them after, it’s obvious most Americans are okay and happy to sit down and accept this.
Most Americans don’t KNOW about this shit. Most of us get their news from Fox and they’re not saying anything negative about the administration. Except for sometimes having a token liberal on a talk show get shouted down by the five hosts.
Fox broke records with 4.8M viewers out of a country of 340m.
Most of you get your news from social media sharing.
OK, still most of us have no idea what is going on. They see nothing but stuff supporting the administration. Cable news and social media are all arms of state media. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Now, those Americans that have no desire to hear anything critical of their views… I can blame indoctrination but I can also blame the masses of this country.
Most of us are NOT okay with this.
The government created media infrastructure to isolate people from each other so most of us would not find out. It’s like the Matrix.
A lot of us know and are trying to do things about it.
Many of us would rather fight for Canada than against. Don’t fret the threats. Likely a lot of people, even some who voted for tRump, would be done defending this administration and maybe we’d see that well armed militia we keep hearing about!
They will quite literally do anything for him. I’m so sorry.
The US has allies??
The US has countries that it used to know.
But we didn’t have to cut you off.
Hopefully in 4 years we can make out like it never happened and that it was nothing.
So basically 2009 and 2021 all over again.
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over.
Yeah, their client state Israel, as well as Russia and presumably its client state, Belarus
Who’s who’s client state again?
Israel is America’s client state. If Israel magically ceased to exist, America would recreate it, so as to maintain their military position in the region. If America magically ceased to exist, Israel would soon follow.
Though the way things are going, pretty soon they’ll both be more like Belarus
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We never had allies, we barely knew those countries, they might have gotten coffee for us at some point?
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Since there is a certain psycho suggesting all Americans go to war for their personal protection I will take the opportunity to ride the top comment with this attempt at organizing a general strike in the US.
Any general strike attempt will need to have some support from unions or similar groups with influence among large parts of essential industries. While there is a nice starting list of partners there, I don’t yet see the kind of big names necessary for an effective general strike, especially a country-wide one.
I hope the organizers are seriously reaching out to large established organizations.
It’s gotta start somewhere. FWIW I have been following this for at most a month and it is increased by at least 70,000 people. Not that that’s enough, but 300,000 people ain’t nothing.
That’s true, and if we’re lucky, some of those 300,000 people can help make it happen.
Canada isn’t an ally anymore
Friendship with Canada ended. Now Putin is best friend
Friendship with Poutine ended. Now Putin is best friend
americans do not have allies, they have minions and masters. you should have started that shame a long time ago.
Putin’s bidding to fracture the deepest alliances of the West under utterly bullshit pretenses.
I do not find it a coincidence that its been happening specifically to young women. Yet to see 6’2 Canadian male hockey player get grabbed.
I guarantee you they do not care. This is far more likely to be media bias. If they’re detaining her for an incomplete visa instead of just turning her around then they’re detaining people every day, no matter their nationality or body build. It sounds cool to think they’d be afraid of a large guy but the US police are sadly just more likely to kill them with guns.
This is far more likely to be media bias.
Yeah the story of the German girl it happened to around the same time included her talking about a Spanish lad in the cell with her for the same thing.
Not saying it wasn’t reported on in Spain but I didn’t see his case anywhere in the news.
It did happen to an Irish girl too last month. Fortunately we’ve fairly decent relations with the US but unfortunately it didn’t sound like her treatment was any better than this tbh.
That could just be the media’s bias in reporting.
Yeah, same happens with kidnapping and murder victims. There’s a reason it’s called Missing White Woman Syndrome. The media is extremely biased towards covering attractive young white women who have gone missing, while virtually every other demographic gets ignored. Asian and Latina women are often covered disproportionately as well, but not to the extent that missing white women are covered. Black women get almost no coverage, and the same goes for men of basically every race and age.
I remember many years ago, there were two little girls that went missing about the same time. One was white, the other black. The little white girl just got lost and was found pretty quickly, and her story dominated the news for weeks. Meanwhile, the little black girl (I think it was in West Virginia) had been kidnapped by a sadistic couple who abused and tortured her until one night she chewed through her bindings, escaped, and trekked through the forest for days before finding help. She barely got a “missing girl found” blurb on the news. The fact that she barely got any news coverage actually became a bigger story later on than her actual kidnapping did at the time. It was infuriating.
Don’t even get me started on the missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) phenomenon that not only gets next to zero media coverage, but also a severe lack of law enforcement attention.
With MMIW, often the cops are involved/know more than they let on. “Starlight tours” I don’t think are just a Canadian thing.
Yeah, the way we treat the native peoples of this land is abhorrent.
Native women have been getting kidnapped for centuries. It’s not even news.
There’s a good TV series called Alaska daily, which has this phenomenon play a big part of the storyline
Sure but I also remember trumps first term where thousands of specifically migrant women in US custody were unaccounted for for months. Im not in the habbit of giving people with track records of human trafficking benefits of doubt.
maybe! americans DO hate women really really passionately. there was a famous canadian author who wrote a book about it.
Some Americans do. Other Americans hate those Americans fairly passionately.
I would argue that we are not americans. just people who were born here and can’t get out.
Now it come back around to the white people
no amount of conformity will ever make you safe under fascism. the noose will always tighten to meet the fascists’ needs for torture. once the old enemy is eliminated a new hegemony will be homogenized and the torture will continue either at the same pace or accelerated.
it’s not really about skin tone, accent, visa access, sexual identity, gender identity, or even political stance. it’s about that the fascists must other, and they will other you any way that thy can.
Yep, just like how conservatives wanted to ignore aids since they thought it would only kill gays and drug users. They fail to see how their cruelty will come back around on themselves.
They’re 100% going to go after PREP, PEP, doxy, etc. There is already a hidden epidemic of antibiotic resistant syphillis and gonorrhea.
This will also be a leopard eating faces thing, considering the sheer quantity of “straight” conservative men that enjoy “the apps”…
Or when Jared didn’t want to respond to COVID because it was mainly hitting blue cities.
White-Canadians now have the rare experience to feel what it is like to be brown in America.
Build a wall…around the USA. WTF!!!
Wall? I thought we upgraded to an Iron Dome?
I thought we upgraded to an Iron Dome?
Yes, you did think that. Thanks for asking.
We need and have always needed a wall around the south, when nafta started they infested my Midwestern town with their crime and drugs and it went to hell overnight.
Nothing worse than having those southerners come in with their crime and drugs and interrupting your midwestern meth making, meth taking, and meth related crimes.
… They brought the meth, we just had alcohol, some weed (not much).
Do you know anything about the Midwest?
Ooooo this is bad
