A Canadian actress who appeared in one of the American Pie movies says she was locked up and put in chains by ICE while trying to enter the US from Mexico after her visa was revoked.
Jasmine Mooney, 35, claimed she has been held in inhumane conditions since she was detained at the San Ysidro border crossing between Mexico and San Diego on March 3.
“Every single guard that sees me is like, ‘What are you doing here? I don’t understand – you’re Canadian. How are you here?’” said Mooney, who appeared in a racy scene in American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love in 2009.
The entrepreneur told Team 10 that US officials revoked her work visa in November as she was trying to travel from Vancouver to Los Angeles, where she had been living at the time as she worked on the health tonic drink she co-founded.
She said that, on her lawyer’s advice, she went to the border crossing in March with a new job offer and the paperwork to ask for a new work visa.
But a border agent told her she needed to obtain a new visa at a US consulate, and detained her, according to Mooney.