Summary
Canadian citizen Jasmine Mooney was detained by ICE for two weeks despite having a valid U.S. work visa. Stopped at the San Diego border, she was abruptly arrested, denied legal counsel, and held in freezing cells before being transferred to a private detention center.
She witnessed systemic inefficiencies, inhumane conditions, and detainees trapped in bureaucratic limbo.
After media attention and legal intervention, Mooney was released.
Her experience highlights the profit-driven nature of private detention centers and the broader failures of U.S. immigration enforcement under Trump’s administration.
What an f’ing disgrace. She went to an American government office to apply legally for a visa. The absolute worst consequence should have been “we’re sorry, we can’t process your Visa and you’ll need to return to your home country.”
That’s it.
This is a minor point compared to her suffering, but also, what an f’ing waste of taxpayer money. Some private facilities got good money I’m sure to lock this innocent lady up.
Yes, that’s detailed at the end of the article.
I’m only like half way through. This one makes me see enough red I’m having to read it in chunks. Just found out about the poor pastors JFC take a wrong turn and straight to jail and it’s not funny.
edit: It just gets worse and worse. In a halfway decent world reading this story would feel like jumping the shark not business as usual.
No, it’s not meant to be funny. It should be encouraging us to learn about explosives.
We were reminded by the last two months or so that it’s only a waste of taxpayer money if it doesn’t go directly to the pocket of some rich dude.
“rich dude.”
Hey, whoa whoa whoa, there are plenty of elitest female grifters as well! Equal’ish opportunity! (only for grifting tho).
/s
There is a place for Capitalism. Prisons, Hospitals, Insurance, police and mental health facilities, to name a few, are not the place.
It is if you’re a billionaire and want to be an even bigger billionaire.
Sure wouldn’t be a shame if something happens to Damon Hininger, current CEO of Core Civic.
“I’ve worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods of my career,” CEO Damon Hininger said on the company’s earnings call.
Throw these parasites in their own prisons.
[N]o matter how flawed the system, how cruel the circumstances, humanity will always shine through.
Even in the darkest places, within the most broken systems, humanity persists. Sometimes, it reveals itself in the smallest, most unexpected acts of kindness: a shared meal, a whispered prayer, a hand reaching out in the dark. We are defined by the love we extend, the courage we summon and the truths we are willing to tell.
idk this woman, but I’m so proud of her for using this media attention to do the right thing in a horrific situation.
The pictures of letters her cellmates gave her to get to their families, the moment where a wife sees her husband in the detention cells after being separated with no contact for weeks, the dehumanizing assembly line pregnancy tests.
It’s a hard fucking read, but everyone should take 10-15 minutes and read the whole thing. This is basic knowledge of the system everyone in the world should be aware of, told by someone who has less to fear in reprisals than most of the folk who manage to escape.
Thanks for encouraging me to read the whole thing - I only skimmed first - well worth it
It felt like a kidnapping because it was factually a kidnapping.
Freezing cells are actual torture
We need a left wing version of the “take back our border” group to “take back our reputation” by driving to these detention centers and cutting some fences and shit.
Wow, what a story. The kind of thing you’d expect from a 3rd world shithole country which I guess the USA is becoming.
Has been for quite a while, it’s just that Americans have been told they’re number 1 for so long and most of them don’t travel so they don’t see anything else.
I highly recommend foreign travel. For example Colombia seems to be completely developed in some places and stuck in the 1950’s in other places.
1st/2nd/3rd world terminology becoming increasingly outdated as America becomes aligned with Russia and Europe and Canada distance themselves.
I haven’t done any international travel for the last few years, but I used to do it a decent amount for work, and lemme tell you: the worst part of those trips wasn’t the long / cramped plane flights; it was going through US customs.
I’m a US citizen, but every time I went through those lines, it felt like I was passing through a military checkpoint into occupied territory. Every time I went through that experience, it made me hate what our country has become just that little bit more.
Traveled to Rome recently (as US citizen). Walked no more than 10 minutes from the gate, was 5th in line to one of a half dozen or so automated camera/scanner customs gates, and cleared customs within 15 minutes of landing.
Returned to the US, walked for 20 minutes through a maze of twisty passages to get to the customs hall, where I stood in line for another 30 minutes to get to one of a half dozen or so checkpoints where an agent scanned my passport, told me to stare at the camera, and eventually, maybe even grudgingly, welcomed me home.
The last time I came through American customs, it was when I was returning from a conference in Spain, and a colleague of mine got detained for 3 hours because he “looked suspicious”. Man’s a fucking engineer, with credentials out the wazoo, but apparently he fidgeted in line or something. Sitting there in the little space available just anxiously waiting for them to release him was harrowing, but I can’t even imagine what he went through. Nobody would tell me shit; in fact, the more I asked about him, the more it felt like they were treating me like a suspect. If they’d ended up deciding that he didn’t pass the sniff test, they could have taken him anywhere, and nobody would know a fucking thing about it for God knows how long.
Man, I’m getting sweaty just reliving that. Fuck I hate this country sometimes.
Nazi USA is a shithole.
