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highplainsdem

(54,665 posts)
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 12:44 PM 4 hrs ago

Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE and sent to Arizona facility in chains after visa was revoked, family says

Source: The Independent

A Canadian businesswoman who was arrested in the United States by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents over an incomplete visa is being held in “inhumane” conditions in an Arizona detention center, according to her family, who have now gone public in an attempt to secure her release.

Jasmine Mooney, 35, co-founder of the Holy! Water health drink brand, was detained after crossing the San Ysidro border between Mexico and San Diego on March 3. She was carrying an incomplete application for a new Trade NAFTA (TN) work visa after her first was unexpectedly revoked, according to her mother Alexis Eagles.

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She said of her time at the Otay Mesa facility: “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.”

Mooney said that she and 30 other women were then relocated to Arizona in the middle of the night, adding: “We were up for 24 hours wrapped in chains.”

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jasmine-mooney-eagles-detained-ice-b2714606.html



Her story should do a lot to kill off any tourism from Canada that Trump hasn't already killed off with his stupid tariffs and other idiocies and fascist decisions.

Btw, Holy! Water (that name because "health is sacred" ) is a health drink with "functional mushrooms" (not sure what those are) and "adaptogens, nootropics and ketones" for what's supposed to be extra-healthy hydration.
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Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE and sent to Arizona facility in chains after visa was revoked, family says (Original Post) highplainsdem 4 hrs ago OP
I'm sure pootin is proud of tfg's nazi tactics SheltieLover 4 hrs ago #1
Looks like ICE is taking their "jackbooted thugs" reputation seriously. sop 4 hrs ago #2
Yup, it's the ICE tax on tourism businesses, farmers, and restaurants Bernardo de La Paz 4 hrs ago #3
Stay away from America, people of the world. Shithole country doing shitty things to people. Solly Mack 3 hrs ago #4
She should have said thank-you. twodogsbarking 3 hrs ago #5
I'm sure Vance will be telling her that shortly. nt SunSeeker 2 hrs ago #11
It has already been noted DENVERPOPS 3 hrs ago #6
He wanted to have military parades... GiqueCee 3 hrs ago #9
That is horrible! wordstroken 3 hrs ago #7
They will say "She's white." The Grand Illuminist 3 hrs ago #8
Equal opportunity screwing is the only props I can give to this administration IronLionZion 1 hr ago #16
While the treatment and conditions of ALL the immgratant detainees beyond unacceptable ToxMarz 3 hrs ago #10
Unfing believable. Joinfortmill 2 hrs ago #12
Shitler is mad at Canada. ICE wants to please him. SleeplessinSoCal 2 hrs ago #13
Manifest Destiny LuvLoogie 1 hr ago #17
WW2 has to have changed that belief. SleeplessinSoCal 7 min ago #19
Someone REALLY wants America to look REALLY bad around the world DFW 2 hrs ago #14
Unbelievable and unforgivable. It seems like he's doing everything Fil1957 1 hr ago #15
No pillow! JoseBalow 1 hr ago #18

Bernardo de La Paz

(53,039 posts)
3. Yup, it's the ICE tax on tourism businesses, farmers, and restaurants
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 01:19 PM
4 hrs ago

Eliminating tax on tips doesn't help much if your restaurant goes out of business.

Who wants to invest in the US when you can't come to see assets and operations for fear of being arrested by ICE for working without the correct i-s-dotted-t-s-crossed visa?

tRump tax leads to tRumPain. "It'll only be a little bit."

Solly Mack

(94,362 posts)
4. Stay away from America, people of the world. Shithole country doing shitty things to people.
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 02:01 PM
3 hrs ago

I am so sorry.

DENVERPOPS

(11,256 posts)
6. It has already been noted
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 02:16 PM
3 hrs ago

That Trump Inc is reopening many of the closed private prisons, making room in existing prisons........

The term: GULAG comes to mind..........

And Trump has a long list of people who have protested him these past years.........

Any day, I expect for him to get all dressed up in Military Uniform, with tons of ribbons and medals......and March his Military in masses, through Washington DC with Tanks and Military vehicles.......

GiqueCee

(1,904 posts)
9. He wanted to have military parades...
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 02:25 PM
3 hrs ago

... during his previous defilement of the Oval Office, but this time, there's no one to talk him out of it. He also wanted to shoot protesters in the legs, but this time...

ToxMarz

(2,278 posts)
10. While the treatment and conditions of ALL the immgratant detainees beyond unacceptable
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 02:29 PM
3 hrs ago

Why in this current climate would you cross the border, particularly the Mexican border "carrying an incomplete application for a new Trade NAFTA (TN) work visa after her first was unexpectedly revoked". She would have known she had some issue with her visa (and thus ability to enter the country lawfully). Just hoping, "oh they don't mean ME" is not true in any circumsatance, they are just looking to make their numbers to please herr Führer. They also seen to enjoy being performatively abusive.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,954 posts)
13. Shitler is mad at Canada. ICE wants to please him.
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:14 PM
2 hrs ago

We have way too many toxic males in this country. And many more who are sadists. How did this happen to us?

LuvLoogie

(7,893 posts)
17. Manifest Destiny
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:39 PM
1 hr ago

It's our M.O., our motive, our core impetus. We have never paid the piper; we have never rid ourselves of this genocidal cancer.

The white supremacist patriarchy will never stop.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,954 posts)
19. WW2 has to have changed that belief.
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 05:23 PM
7 min ago

"Manifest destiny" is a phrase that represents the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious and certain."

We never advanced the belief of expanding northward. If we do now, we risk becoming a province of Canada and a return to being a commonwealth nation honoring the Monarch of GB. I'd prefer that to being part of the new America.

Well done Donald.

DFW

(57,417 posts)
14. Someone REALLY wants America to look REALLY bad around the world
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:21 PM
2 hrs ago

It’s that influential pop group, “Vlad Putin and his Republicans.”

The best way to ruin a country is to ruin its economy. The best way to ruin a country’s economy is to make it completely toxic in the eyes of its friends and trading partners.

Now if this sounds completely unfamiliar to you then I can only assume you are a clone of Helen Keller with about a tenth of her fortitude.

Fil1957

(26 posts)
15. Unbelievable and unforgivable. It seems like he's doing everything
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:35 PM
1 hr ago

he can to destroy this country.

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