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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2025
- Trump's crackdown on immigration has already affected thousands of migrants, but one story has grabbed particular attention. Canadian actress and entrepreneur Jasmine Mooney was recently detained by ICE for 12 days while attempting to renew her work visa. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with her about her experience.
Originally aired on April 9, 2025
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This is what they did to a pretty, articulate, english speaking, well connected white woman; you can only imagine how they are treating the women who aren’t all of these things
The same . No different.
I greatly commend her for her realizing that she was lucky being whyte & privileged! And for speaking out for those who can't... -- or those who wouldn't be listened to.
@@northstarmind1049 she is so lovely. She said in an article I read that one of the positives she has taken from this is being able to be a voice for the women she met.
never have I known nor supported any u.s. government /contractorsvfacility as described.
my good fellow u.s. citizens ...unite and abolish unjust situations ..
what happened to our democracy ??
@@northstarmind1049 This should not be about white privilege. This is the law and everyone who qualifies to get a work visa under TN is eligible to do so. This is all related to the clown show that we have now in charge.
It's fortunate for her she can tell her story. When so many others have no voice.
Exactly,,those that are being grabbed,,taken to facilities in Louisiana,Texas ,,and then deported to other countries.
Illegals!
Atleast shes doing it on behalf of others too to make others aware of what’s going on, better than not saying anything,……..
Absolutely.. especially under those conditions!!
The ones who are without a Voice are Illegals who have known ties to Terrorists/Gangs.
Someone explain to me how traumatizing Canadians is making Americans safer. 😮😢
Fattening CEO's wallets makes Americans safe from having to grapple with having stable enough living conditions to fight the system, you see
@@personneici2595 we need to FIGHT to revert those contracts that are LACKING in accountability, oversight, critical case load and metrics - community workers and local NGOS have been reporting trafficking, SA, child abuse / neglect in facilities since Hutto.
The Miami detention center should be closed and CRIMINAL acts vs. persons ANY persons on US soil should be prosecuted.
We are a laughing stock, OR an epithet for our "third world" conditions.
THIS is horrific - and what is happening in real time now with our ALLIES is heinous.
At least she realizes that she was lucky being whyte & privileged!
I wonder if it’s about having the numbers! ‘We deported so many criminals, worst of the worst!’ Deported 1,000 gang members!! Are any citizens going to question whether the deported were the criminals, gang members!? We don’t question, bc we trust the Govt announcements!
How about the 1000s of RUSSIAN MAFIA who laundered dirty money in trumps business
Thank you for sharing this story. Never Forget.
She's a scammer. Playing games and not allowed in. Play stupid games
I saw an advert for travel to New York on FB today (in Australia). Every single comment was like, 'Why would I?' and 'I don't want to be arrested. No thanks'.
Please understand that half the US did not vote for this felon/idiot.
New Zealand is plugging it too, flights must be empty except for Americans lol
Fat, soon to be poor, Americans are the only people traveling to the States unless it's going to cost you, LoL. Nobody is coming here anymore if they know what's good for them. Just try to ask Garcia down in El Salvador.
Yeh Aussie here too and America is the last place I would visit now. Not buying anything American either.
If I lived outside the U.S , I would not visit here until the current administration is out if office. Assuming the current administration does not become a dictatorship.
And to think 2026 is the 250 anniversary of the U.S. being an independent country. Shameful. 🥺😥
That last statement is key. ICE is a business receiving grants from the US government. They are financially rewarded for putting people in these facilities
Its not just ICE, its also that glorified strip of land in the Mid E ast that has a long association with militarization in El Salvador. There is a money laundering scheme going on here too.
CORPORATE SMELLFARE AT ITS WORST! DEFUND ICE!
@@susiex6669 It's Orange as the New Black on HGH and Steroids! For Profit Enslavement!
Your police are the same, they get funded on arrests. Is easier to arrest a poor person rather than reduce the crime rate which would benefit you all. Your prisons get paid more if they are not full and local towns rely on their business. So arrest more to get more in prison to support the local economy. On top of that make them make goods for cents so you can have cheap goods that takes the work from citizens. A real nice place you have there.
@@juncusbufonius The prisons in Canada arent FOR PROFIT.
My goodness, what is wrong with this country? As an American, I am embarrassed and ashamed. To the world, I am so sorry.
This is what happens when there is an attempt to enforce laws after decades of lawlessness. The system is overloaded and poorly managed.
@@pauljackson9716Obama deported close to 3 million people in the years he was a president. That number went down during trump’s first stint. Biden deported a 10yr high number in 2024 alone. They did it without selling them to other countries. They did it with due process. What lawlessness do you talk about???
@@Opinionatedboo Don't talk about due process and Obama. He executed an American citizen without due process. The number went down during Trump 1.0 due to no doubt better security at the border. From what I understand and from what she said she should have went to the American consulate for her work visa application. I think her lawyer fked this up big time too...
Yeah, get ready for foreign tourism to crash and 2.3 trillion dollars in profits to disappear. No, we have no trade deficit. Trump just decided not to add in subscriptions like Amazon prime or UA-cam Red or Microsoft software. He also ignored investment corps. Btw our biggest import is cash. No, America is the richest country on the planet for a reason. If trade deficits were a issue, we wouldn't be so damn wealthy.
You can leave if you are ashame to be an "American".
Trump's executive order says "MAY" be detained, not "MUST" be detained. I am a retired career immigration office who worked for 8 years at SYS and OTM, where this woman was detained. Some of my former colleagues, I am ashamed to say, relished the power to treat people like shit, ESPECIALLY a privileged white woman from a first world country. This current crop of CBP officers, obviously, is no different. Give them and inch and they take a mile. Take everything to the extreme. What the HELL is the need for shackles if she is not a criminal? Bunch of clowns at the border, feeling their power on steroids with this current POSOTUS. SHAMEFUL and RIDICULOUS. The officers involved will probably get promotions and awards from their like minded superiors, Christy Noem and Tom Roman. Nasty, horrible people.
The presidential example of mocking the disabled, recommended beating up dissidents in the crowd, pardoning violent felons. . .all this has been in detriment of the fabric of national life. Bad before, worse now.
As the commentator states, Trump's executive order creates a "may detain" policy, not a "must detain" policy. It is important that this legal framework is properly understood. Why are Canadians being harassed?
US immigration has always been disgusting. Treating all foreign nationals as criminals.
I know you aren't excusing that dipshit dementia patient who's frequently encouraged stochastic terrorism against minorities, protestors, and journalists...? the rot starts with Trump.
Dual citizenship holder here: USA/German. Canceled my yearly trip to the US. As you can see, even after being put through something like this, and getting out, the trauma is real and needless! Non-citizens, citizens, with this Trump government, you are just not protected, constitutional rights be damned! Shameful!
This woman is both courageous and admirable .
As a French I am also canceling my annual trip to the USA…
It’s really terrifying to see what this great country becomes in such a short time…. 😢
You're breaking my heart. 😀
@@kennethbaker5223 😂 you’ll probably change your mind in a few months….
@Emma95-g9f You are very generous, saying he has a mind. lol
Thank you Fraulein. Stay where you buy PUTIN OIL. His military needs you.
Thank you for bringing this women face to face with the world. Good God help us.
Yes good GOD HELP US
Oh a poor woman. Please!
Don't come to America. She's absolutely right about it being a business, or a "prison state" as we call it. Trump is ignoring our courts and our Legislature is equally useless and he is federalizing our state militaries (National Guard) to further assist ICE in what its doing. There's a real likelihood that this Gestapo agency will eventually be turned on legal residents and even citizens. So please, find work elsewhere if you can.
Was she not denied and went to another country anyway?
@@michaelmayer-o3sif you don't comprehend English it's best to find something like qoura that has different languages
What is mind-blowing is that the officer informed her that she is not a criminal! But she got treated like a criminal. She was in jail for almost two weeks.😕
In the meantime, we have a REAL criminal in office, the highest office in the United States! Let that sink in.
Trump has turned our country The United States of America into a police state!
This is terrible, I can’t believe this is happening in my country 💔
Well, what do you expect in a country where they treat criminals like animals?
@dianeh2765 Neither can anyone else! Trump and his Administration must Go! No further delays, Gone! Now!
This is just sickening. Shame on ICE, shame on DT and Shame on Kristy Noem. Makes one sick and embarassed to be a native born North American. An innocent Canadian should NEVER EVER be treated like this. Shame full
I am an American citizen. I was born and raised in this country. I am appalled at how our government is behaving. I am disgusted to hear about stories like this and similar stories reported on the news. This used to be a great place to live and work. I no longer have pride for our country. I now feel ashamed. I am ashamed of our government, our lack of respect for laws, the way we treat people, what our leaders are doing to us and other countries and how other countries view us. To the world, please understand there are millions of people who did not vote for Trump and I am sorry for what is going on. Last Saturday I attended one of the Hands Off protests. I saw a sign that pretty much sums up how we feel. It said, “To the world, we hate him, too!”. It hasn’t even been 100 days. I fear what the next 4 years will bring. 😢
That's a nice sentiment. Really it is. The problem is that the United States has been the hegemon for the last few decades, and as the hegemon has perpetuated a global economic system that prioritises the western world, while leaving billions of people having to suffer the consequences of a complex, unjust global financial and economic system. That's why the underprivileged around the world have flocked to western countries, especially the US, because the rest of the world is in a horrible state. At least Trump allows everyone to clearly see the US for what it is -- a country that has a long way to go before it even remotely lives up to the ideals it thinks it cherishes.
This is what you voted for...twice.
I'm so sorry. Yes, America is becoming a really scary place for Americans as well. (I've lived there. I know people there.)
@@akh-007 That is his and steven miller's point. Make it clear to all tourists and asylum seekers that you have no rights if you try to cross the GOP's Christian Theocratic border. The most Christian POTUS in history stated clearly in his campaign, "I am your vengeance, I am your retribution.". American Christians have a lot of DeTomas Torquema's DNA and love to torture, for entertainment.
No free press. DOGE coup inside our government. It is extremely dangerous. The mantra Trump is getting something done is just scary.
Thank you for speaking out Jasmine! This is horrific.
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Can someone explain why she was denied 2X's? She flew into Mexico to get to the U.S./California? Did US Customs search her for contraband? I've never understood her story, but clearly the left hand doesn't know what the right foot is doing in our government. Or how to do immigration. And yes we need immigration reform, but don't hold your breath.
Her patdown doesn't seem like it was done by U.S. agents, but contractors. This story makes no sense.
What happened to her is WHY hospitality and travel is crashing. No one overseas is coming to America.
ICE are the new Brownshirts. Wake up, people. Marching doesn't work with sociopaths. Unless Americans are willing to make actual sacrifices, we will lose our Social Security, Healthcare, and our right to VOTE. Buy NOTHING you don't need and shop ONLY small businesses until the Putin's Twink is gone!
Wow. Keep telling your story Jasmine. This detention Centre that you were in kept for payment from the government. Sue the shit out of them.
Keep speaking how she tried to go around the system after she was denied a visa at the Canadian border. If your visa is denied dont try to go around the system
This is a good argument for investigating the for-profit facilities in which this woman was held. I worked for ten years in the medical clinic of a State Prison, and the conditions there were nothing like those she describes. Our taxes are better spent when 100% of each dollar goes to creating a secure, efficient and humane facility - without also covering a substantial profit margin for a private corporation.
These detention centers get PAID to make mistakes, per day, per head. They have been hanging up on attorneys, failed to contact Consulates, and it is a smear and an embarrassment on the United States.
THIS incident made my friends and colleagues cancel wedding, two week vacations, and tours from UK, AUS, Argentina, Sweden, France, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Singapore, and Thailand.
We are a number of travel advisories already, but it is sweeping now. People have canceled 2025 and 2026 travel. And they're not coming back here anytime soon.
Agree
@@randallcauley9484 Agreed. And since when would “Making America Great Again” ever require bullying and alienating all our friends and allies? It’s absolutely bonkers!
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@SMF314 I suggest you are assuming - like many did - that your definition of ‘great’ is the same as drumpf’s. It definitely isn’t.
Privatization baby all for profit sickening 🤮 call Gavin Newsom 😂
Dear Christiane and your team, because of your work, The Hague dealt with Slobodan Milosevic and managed to arrest him and stop the war in the Balkans. Because of your work and the generosity of many dedicated American citizens, many lives were saved. Because of you and your work, my family and I are alive. Thank you so much for everything you do. Please don’t ever stop. We are now seeing a regime in the US similar to Milosevic’s regime.
This is human rights violations- this should be reported to the Hague😮
America is not a signatory to the Hague, and is specifically exempt from its proceedings.
AND the hundreds of thousands of OTHER people.
You seiously think Trump is worried about the Hague ?
@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 It doesn't matter if he is, if he commits human rights abuses and leaves his jurisdiction he can be arrested and sent to the Hague, as long as there is an international arrest warrant on him...
@@STHFGDBY The States have an extra law for that, the Den Hague Invasion Act, if an american service member is at the court, the USA will probably invade and free their criminal.
These are for profit prisons.
Yes, it's about the money
Yes, making everything privately owned and $$$ is all that matters to Republicans. I wish people who didn't vote could understand to vote and against this!
Yes, for-profit prisons need to be filled. They pay commissions to enforcement officers to help meet this goal. These prisons will keep individuals incarcerated for as long as possible by any means necessary. In states across the South, evidence has shown similar practices involving for-profit prisons, as described above. You can find more information about this issue online. Billionaires are profiting off taxpayer money!
Geo Group is one of the largest corpos, literally built concentration camps in DT's first term,
They are still being run under the auspicious of the government authority hence there should be responsibility!!
It’s a clear message- don’t do business with and/or in the US anymore
That’s right enter legally, and there would be no issues!! 👏🏽
@@AyyoShyGurlTv She said she had all her papers straight. What do you mean with your comment?
@@AyyoShyGurlTv She tried...
Stop gaslighting. But if you can’t follow border agents instructions then don’t come.
@@TheSurfReport-kf7zx clearly she DID NOT have all her papers straight or she wouldn’t have had any problems and they like myself find it very suspicious that she went down to Tijuana 2 1/2 hours from LAX and 1500+ miles from Vancouver
Back in 2009, my Romanian wife at the time was abducted by ICE,(I’m American btw). She sat in ICE detention in Pompano Beach, FL. For six months before they deported her. I was only allowed to visit her there on Sundays. She was a non criminal, and all the rest of the women in that place were non criminals as well. It was a very traumatic experience for her, and I. I’ve gone to see her in Romania quite a few times but, She’s never gotten back here to the US since. They made it difficult for her to get back here.
She could have asked to go home and it would have been over. You left out most of the story
@@kimwolf5053 Not true. She was detained against her will of course. She had a few court hearings within the time she sat in there. They gave her a “Voluntary Departure” after a few hearings but, DHS denied her petition to return here after we dished out a lot of money for the immigration attorneys, petitions, etc… So, she gave up on trying to fight to get back here. She was a Realestate agent when she was here. Someone we knew tipped ICE off, and caused the whole thing.
@@The-Jim-Miller-Project - It was probably a White Karen that tipped them off.....In a MAGA Hat.
The way this was handled is creating bitterness that will never be forgotten.
So true
@@roygutfinski879 you are right. They never should’ve opened our border. I will never forgive them for destroying my life
@roygutfinski879 the only bitterness I have is Her trying to push her way to get a Visa that was rejected.
@jamantial he wasn't talking about your bitterness.
If you think this is causing bitterness, consider what the effect of the moron Americans call their president saying (repeatedly) that he intends to annex Canada is having.
I work with asylum seekers. Her description of the detention centers is accurate. Her experience is the experience of many people legally seeking asylum. She is also correct about the detentions being a business with American tax dollars paying for the detention of people who should not be in detention centers to begin with.
What she has described has been going on for decades. It did not just start with this administration. However, it has become worse under this administration.
very sad to know about this watching from India I will never visit US until this regime is gone
Yes they did this to my friend who went through hell to escape the Taliban. Thankfully her sister's husband had friends in the state department and they got her out. It's been a dirty secret for a long time.
@@angelachouinard4581 Very sad 😭😭😭😭😭
So I'm assuming people in Congress know about this? Why don't they talk about it? Have there any been any hearings?
Thankfully for all leaders who trample upon human rights, we have people such as yourself doing what you can to help. Keep up the good work.
Amanpour & co.: thank you for highlighting this situation. It’s happening again & again & again. This needs the light of day. We need to hear more of this, more often, from many different aspects: privatization of U.S. services, treatment of people taken into custody, length of incarceration, complete lack of due process and rights. Please please please, keep putting the word out. We cannot allow fear to isolate the U.S. We cannot allow intimidation & disregard for human rights and human consideration to rule the day.
Really America has Nothing to offer the world!
They snowed you by not doing any fact-checking and in their ignoring her inconsistencies in her telling.
There is more to this story. the company that gave her the "job offer" was cofounded by her. she had been illegally sponsoring herself and gaming the immigration system. they initially revoked her visa. when she showed up at the canada-us border they simply turned her away. She then went to Mexico to try to enter that way with the same visa and paperwork, ie after having it revoked and being told it's revoked and that she can't enter the us with it. even her lawyer told her not to go to mexico and try that way, but she did it anyway.
@JeremyMckay-b7k thanks for your clarification. Sounds like I need to read up on this .
The most notable thing about this story (and there are many notable things here) is that she was released when her story threatened these people with public exposure. That says something really important about how unconvinced they are of the ethics of their project, and, even more; how insecure they are about their power to carry it out against public outrage.
Try this elsewhere, they dont care about public opinion at all
Thank you for speaking up, Jasmine!
If they do her like that imagin what they do to poor people.
Yeah thank you Jasmine for telling the world you’re a moron and let your visa expired and that your country took 12 days to issue a new passport so you could get into the country you’re from
@@david4096They have revoked Visa's of college students and refuse entry to other individuals that are coming here for business and medical purposes.
Look at what they've done to kids.
As a Canadian who travels by car into the New England states from Québec on a monthly basis to spend weekends with friends in Connecticut, there are two sides to every story. I have never been detained or had problems entering the US border. My sister and her husband just returned from a month long road trip from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee and had a lovely time, even wondering what the fuss is about. The only people I have seen detained are the ones that come to the US border with attitude, arrogant, don't answer the custom officer's questions. There is a reason why she was flagged like this...
So instead of being sent straight back to Canada she is detained. Explain how this is not a waste of
$$$.
So much for government efficiency.
But shit like this always comes back to somebody's greed!
Detention systems are the new money making growth industry for corporate America.
No, she was sent back to Canada at the Vancouver border where she was initially denied entry. Against legal advice she tried to sneak in through the southern border. At Canadian ports of entry, you're under Canadian law. At the southern border it's us law. That's why it was a bad idea and illegal
Going into the CBP office at the border is NOT entering illegally @@jaredpowell4108
@@jaredpowell4108 That is the part of the story that makes no sense. This sounds manufactured or she expected some privilege.
@@jaredpowell4108bad idea yes. Illegal no.
Thank you for speaking out. This is insane.
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No it’s the law. You can’t go into any other foreign country without proper documentation and authorization. Why would she believe she could come here? I couldn’t go to Canada without a visa, passport, approval.
@@LNWLF-cb3di detention and trauma is the issue
@@robertparsons313 if you can’t cope with the repercussions you shouldn’t break the law. Especially in Foreign counties.
@@robertparsons313 you are welcome. These invaders should be informed the traitors who were luring them here for slave labor lost the election and our long standing laws will be enforced again. Much like Obama did
Good for you for speaking out. Unfortunately you were one of the lucky ones. No one is going to the States from Canada or probably barely anywhere else. We feel for you Americans, keep protesting!!!!
Funny, I often travel by car into the New England States from Québec to visit friends on a monthly basis in Connecticut. Some of my family members were on a month long trip about a month ago to Tennesse, NY, the Carolinas, PA, from Nova Scotia. They had a wonderful road trip, never had any problems at the border. I never have problems crossing the border. The only ones I see having problems are the ones with attitude, arrogant, don't answer the questions by the border officers. There are two sides to every story...
If you are not a citizen, Don’t come here. Even with the documentation it is CLEARLY not safe.
amd more important do not spend money in usa
@@peterrobinson1041 or for any american product !
@@peterrobinson1041lol... we don't need your money.😂😂😂😂
No chance
I would shorten that to just "Don't come"... citizen or not.. pappers or not... In the words of Keith Green, "come away".
This inhumane treatment is a grave violation of Human Rights and utterly shameful.
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Flying a Ukrainian Flag (the most known corrupt government in recent history) & spewing "human rights" is about as hypocritical as you can get.
MAGA doesn't believe in huuman rights, lol. And of course theigh don't, fash never cared about 'em.
Just like the Constitution or The Bible, everything is for political power for power's sake.
Not in a fascist dictatorship.
No one cares.
Thank you, Jasmine for being willing to share your story!!!
I cannot tell you how upset this makes me. Thank you for speaking out.
I agree everyone should not be afraid to tell their story but personally, I have it and I wonder if you have ever traveled to another country and not sorted out your visa first.
WoW..in America 😱 Please keep speaking out 💗💪 🙋♀️ 🤬💥
PLEASE, UNITED STATES, AMÉRICA IS THE CONTINENT OF 37 COUNTRIES. SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THAT CANADA IS PART OF NORTH AMERICA JUST LIKE GREENLAND & MÉXICO & BERMUDA & BAHAMAS. THE U.S. HAS STOLEN THE NAME OF THE CONTINENT AND HAVE BRAINWASHED PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW ABOUT GEOGRAPHY.🙄
You'd think this was happening in Iran or North Korea
Exactly. And with HABEAS dangling in the wind, there are dictatorships that have better processes than we do atm.
RIDICULOUS
Exactly
How would you know?😂
Not really, she was denied entry from Canada, and then tried to sneak in at the southern border. She was treated unfairly but one should never try and circumvent the law especially when they were warned
@@jaredpowell4108 "sneak" through a legalborder crossing?
That was the right thing to do, speaking out! In order to avoid that this will happen to anyone else.
Its horrific what is happening to you and so many. Thanks for sharing your story
Yet nobody cares about the hundreds of woman and childrens lives taken due to the unsafe immigration policies under biden admin. Why is that? At least this woman gets to go home, unlike the hundreds unalived! This woman was denied and went anyways!
And this is why Canadians are not crossing the border.
Praise the Lord
@@okaycola2 That doesn’t sound like something the Lord would praise or most of the good, non-MAGA Americans.
I wouldn't come to the US for anything. Don't take your vacation here. Don't buy from Amazon, Tesla, etc.
So basically those ICE people are liars.
They can stay where they are. They wouldn't have a country in the first place if they weren't subsidized by the US.
A draft dodger becomes a Commander-In-Chief, a Law Breaker becomes a Law Maker, a bankrupt businessman becomes CEO of America, a clown enters a whitehouse turns it into a circus stage.
Immigrants are deporting Native migrants.
Well pointed out!
Plus all the hate and cruelty. He is a despicable “human”
Only in AMERIKKKA!
Donald Trump, graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam at that time Later he received a diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels.
Biden said he was in the military but he lied and never was.
Biden received five student draft deferments, first as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University.
And after a medical exam in April 1968, he received the "1-Y" classification, which meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency.
Biden released his Selective Service records to the Associated Press in 2008. At the time, a spokesperson said he was "disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager,"
So what’s the difference between these two? Biden lied about me being in the military and Trump never has.
The US government goes so low it is inconceivably evil.
MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY!
It's not even "the government". It's people who work for organizations and agencies that are funded by the government, at least in part.
Yes but Biden is out of office, so the US can only get better.
The US government is amoral. That is all. Don't judge America.
And there is a major difference between the mean Trump govt and the rest of the American people. 74 million of us did not vote for this.
I AM A 80 YEARS OLD , VIETNAM VETERAN,
I LOVE ALL LIVE , SHOWING OF REAL AMERICANS TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY!
WHAT TRUMP DOESN'T UNDERSTAND
ITS AMERICANS RIGHT TO PROTEST..
LOVE IT ,IS A PROTEST ALL OVER THE WORLD, NOT ONLY IN THE USA!!!!
Thank u for speaking out - this type of treatment has to stop - it's inhumane -
I don't feel safe inside the US anymore and I am a citizen. I don't feel safe enough to try to leave for a simple holiday. It's terrifying and heartbreaking.
I've never felt safe. I'm an African American business woman, wife and mother.
That is what Trump wants; he wants you to live in fear. Do not succumb to it please. Become part of the movement to throw him out or in jail.
You are a silly little person.
There is more to this story. the company that gave her the "job offer" was cofounded by her. she had been illegally sponsoring herself and gaming the immigration system. they initially revoked her visa. when she showed up at the canada-us border they simply turned her away. She then went to Mexico to try to enter that way with the same visa and paperwork, ie after having it revoked and being told it's revoked and that she can't enter the us with it. even her lawyer told her not to go to mexico and try that way, but she did it anyway.
Oh i am very comfortable with traveling. I was born in Florida. Cant get back in the country? Don’t threaten me with a good time.
It is on purpose a reign of terror.
It’s so outraging that this is happening to innocent people. It’s a crime against humanity. People should stay away from this country now.
And people who love freedom & democracy should leave. Let this administration deal with the brain drain.
If your scared of America, stay out of
Wow the Democrats are all over this trying to make this such a big deal. Of course there are going to be mistakes made when arresting people. But at least Donald Trump is doing his job arresting illegals not like Biden who left our border wide open and did catch and release
@@steveandtaliamajor5710
We aren’t scared of America - we are disgusted. We were the best of friends and allies with many relatives in both countries. We should never have ever been concerned about being locked up.
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Yes and all citizens should look to move elsewhere in the world to contribute their talents & expertise; the USA clearly does not need them. Let them enjoy the dummies running the country.
Thanks for coming forward and being visible
What is absurd is that this woman was following the law and trying to get her work-visa approved. Even crazier is that she is a business woman and a world renowned actress and was treated like a criminal. Detention=Arrest!
Black people follow law and police beat you down and plant drugs,cry me a river
She had the Visa refused because of some "MINOR PAPERS" and was told to come back the day after. She didn't but straight tried to get the visa via an alternative way. This means she knew she could not provide those papers requested. Then again she was removed the VISA but again she tried to obtain it from the most corrupted border. Cheating the system trying to get your Visa via some dogy ways it is not equivalent to following the law. The only fact that her REFUSAL was well written into the system it means there is much more to this story that she is not telling about those "MINOR PAPERS" that she is not giving details about, despite she is spending lot of time to describe everything else
She wasn’t following the law, she decided to come to the United States to do the process her way. I wonder what would happen if an American did the same thing but in Canada?
@@lburns440 Please tell me what law she broke.
And over in normal countries if your visa application is denied you go home, you aren't detained for 12 days in a legal limbo. She even said she was in the process of booking a flight back to Canada when she was detained because she wasn't trying to stay in America she was trying to leave. So congrats, you've ended up arguing that someone applying for a visa at the border, something she had successfully done at that same location before, should be housed on the taxpayer's dime for 12 days instead of being allowed to leave. Ever think you'd end up with that position just to continue to pretend everything is normal?
@@cupguin Do you guys watch the entire video or just stop at the first minute?
1) She was denied the Visa for some minor paperwork works as she stated. Which means she had No proper papers. She was asked to come back the day after.
2) instead she decided to push her Visa through another border through her lawyer's connections
3) After a while she got caught, they found out what she did and her Visa was taken away.
4) She then tried to push her Visa through another third border, which is when she got caught by ICE.
Trying to be a smartazx and bypass another country's system definitely is not a smart move,
This is disturbing. As a US citizen, I urge Canadians, Europeans and anyone else living outside the USA to stay away. If you have holiday plans here anytime soon, go somewhere else. The stupid people who live here have to learn that it matters who your leaders are and some are completely unacceptable. There are consequences to bad behavior.
As a Canadian who travels by car into the New England states from Québec on a monthly basis to spend weekends with friends in Connecticut, there are two sides to every story. I have never been detained or had problems entering the US border. My sister and her husband just returned from a month long road trip from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee and had a lovely time, even wondering what the fuss is about. The only people I have seen detained are the ones that come to the US border with attitude, arrogant, don't answer the custom officer's questions. There is a reason why she was flagged like this...
Haha, sorry to inform you but Canadians stopped going to the US 4 years ago when the biden admin turned it into a lawless, unsafe, crime ridden invasion!
@@achatsgpr3294 Having an attitude but breaking no laws DOES NOT make it justifiable to illegally detain someone for 2 weeks like they're some sort of terrorist!
I'm an American citizen living overseas, not stepping foot on us soil ever. What a Regime!
Glad you got out! 👍
The Divided States are quickly isolating themselves from the rest of the world.
😢
That'll cost me some sleep. 😀
I am looking to relocate to Europe - Spain is one of my choices. The country is quickly turning into a full dictatorship (and that's not the fault of Orange Man - but his entire crew and supporters).
The amount of hate blacks and hispanics are getting over here, is crazy
We are regular home exchangers and have home exchanged several times with US families. Our listing now specifically says *No* to any enquiries from Israel...and the USA.
Thank you Jasmine for using your voice to shed light on what is going on.
She is attempting deceit. She is not revealing the entire story, she is an actress looking for publicity.
There is more to this story. the company that gave her the "job offer" was cofounded by her. she had been illegally sponsoring herself and gaming the immigration system. they initially revoked her visa. when she showed up at the canada-us border they simply turned her away. She then went to Mexico to try to enter that way with the same visa and paperwork, ie after having it revoked and being told it's revoked and that she can't enter the us with it. even her lawyer told her not to go to mexico and try that way, but she did it anyway.
I hope the Canadian government backs her with a lawsuit against USA DHS and border security for $millions.
Really? Tredau😅?
should be reciprocal, find a way
@ You talk too much. She kept doing what that told her to do and got locked up.
@@petedog9581 it’s not talking, it’s writing. Don’t leave comments if you can’t tolerate the mental effort to read a reply. What’s the point? She got locked up for not following the visa application process. She was warned several times when it was revoked and she even explains it like that but you’re too daft to hear it cause you’re just reacting to her drama filled details of bs. I feel bad for people like you cause they’re just so gullible. She has no case against the US cause they gave her warning but she kept trying to enter from Mexico border aka San Diego with her goofy ass shady visa she got in 30 minutes that was denied at the Canadian border. LOL. 😂 They have it all documented eh?? The US gov? They make notes and documentation and they are trained professional to detect holes in stories and misleading info so her little conniving media stories won’t help her after the 5 year ban is over.
@ Guff. It's just about distracting you while they sell out the country to the highest bidder. Congrats btw.
With the attitude of the "Boarder Czar" and many senior ICE it is no wonder innocent people are treated as serious criminals. Additionally, the use of private unregulated detention facilities is a key strategy of the Trump administration. These types of corporate detention companies have a history of poor performance and inhuman conditions.
As a Canadian who travels by car into the New England states from Québec on a monthly basis to spend weekends with friends in Connecticut, there are two sides to every story. I have never been detained or had problems entering the US border. My sister and her husband just returned from a month long road trip from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee and had a lovely time, even wondering what the fuss is about. The only people I have seen detained are the ones that come to the US border with attitude, arrogant, don't answer the custom officer's questions. There is a reason why she was flagged like this...
@@achatsgpr3294 Canadian here: FU and your self-righteous attitude. You need to get with the program and find out what's REALLY going on. You're like those holocaust victims who kept insisting it would never happen to them.
It's been happening in this country since I was born. I AM a Canadian woman 59 years of age. I didn't have to go to prison to have this treatment from our own government, services and systems, because I wasn't privileged in anyone's eye but my own. We all have to change and that includes our government, our policies, our way. No country gets to point fingers, I can tell you first hand on the abuse and manipulation that was put upon me and my kids. Documents made up and changed through a Catholic school and with the support of children's aid...only after children's aid found 10 other cases of abuse done on other children. It was shut down and closed within 5 days. The power they have had for generations is coming to an end all around the world. Lets stop this insanity on blame and shame, no one gets a free pass. I feel for absolutely everyone in that position, but it's not just a USA issue, it's also in our own back yard. Sending love and support around the world, and may we see peace and harmony prevail!!! Wake up every one and who can you help. Stop closing your eyes to what's been around all along and everywhere. Do you know who your neighbor is? Can you help someone, have you even tried, do you ever ask if anyone needs help, love, support, food?
This is disappearing people. It is terrifying.
Thank you for speaking out.
Fighting the Government is an uphill battle!!
This system exists also because of people saying "I don't know. I'm just doing my job". It's disgusting really. When are everyday Americans going to grow a conscience?
I agree, but this is what comes of underfunding education and creating through various means a workforce that is stymied in the attempt to make enough money for a minimally decent life-who have learned repeatedly that they ARE powerless-and have realized their job depends on their NOT listening to their conscience.
Nazis: 'I was just following orders'
Same cry at the Nurenburg trials.
Spelling apologies
this is happening cuz of people saying "I voted for Trump" - Obama got rid of privatized prisons for profit, Trump reversed that order and brought them back
hannah arendt called it the banality of evil, when she talked about how eichmann was saying he was doing his job.
"The land of the free and the home of the brave?" - America, you really need a period of deep introspection.
This is all being done by mean, heartless people. The rest of us would never treat people like this.
This is reprehensible. I’m a Canadian citizen who lived America for almost 20 years. I had a valid work visa but every time I travelled home to Canada once a year. Every time I was returned to America, I had to go through trauma. I came to understand that immigration officers are on power trips. They could revoke your visa without any reason. I came back to Canada in 2013. Since then, I’ve visited America twice. I will never go back again. 🇨🇦
I don't blame you, nobody should be dealing with people in this manner. It's disgusting & you're 100% correct every cop in America is on a power trip
This and your post absolutely infuriates me. When I was young, we could easily move between International Falls, MN and Fort Francis Ontario. Stopping for border patrol was a couple usual questions, ID and pleasant conversation both ways. I'm sorry this was your experience with your visa. There is no reason for any of this. I would advise everyone to stay way until we take down this regime.
I've gone into this situation as well, have never bin into the US since 2018 and Will never go back!!
a Canadian coach bus driver here, I only go for Canadian Trips!
I think even more so now, some are behaving like thugs
@@ejdMT why did you not take down this unfit embarrassing sleepy former president, lacking humanity leaving afgan allies behind without notice. Shame on dems.US under Biden was a nightmare.Media was interested in the icecream he liked.very important for the world to know.once he left the stage:I go to sleep. That’s what dems love. Lack of leadership no vision.pur egoism
Jasmine, it's too dangerous to return to the US, whether nor not your VISA is updated. No one should travel here at all until this regime is gone. No job, no amount of money is worth it. Be grateful you made it out & use your voice / experience to continue to help those that are being hauled off to these places.
If she returns even with her visa & all her documents in order, she will be vindictively harassed on some pretext & put into detention again by the U.S. government for the audacity of having spoken out! Never underestimate the vindictiveness of the current U.S. government.
Oh you like it better when Joe Biden abandoned the borders letting any and everybody walk right in without documentation? I guess this is what a nation of immigrants get with massive foreign national migrant traitors from within. 😢
Don't like it here in the U.S. you can migrate back to your country of origin.
She already updated her visa. They didn't like that her passport would expire in two years. Which btw is crazy bc lots of passports only are good for five years.
@@jasminejeanine2239 At this point they should realize only someone totally unable to live in another country would want to try and stay here.
This is ridiculous to treat people like this that are NOT criminals.
Even criminals should not be treated like that.
It's called Nazi America
Well, like stores that lock up merchandise. Because people steal. There are new consequences for everyone. And people make fake paper all the time. And since so many people came illegally before you. The trust in people has been ruined. Also prison is supposed to be kinda bad. Or else every one would go for free food and board.
@@bgirl5036 What she described is a bit worse than bad. And I doubt many would choose even the most luxurious prison for room and board, let alone 'everyone'!
Also, I don't think this compares with locking up merchandise in a store. Anyone with pure motives can easily, politely request they unlock it. It's not the same kind of risk as the ordeal she went through.
I don't understand how you can justify this at all. What if it was you or someone you love?
Meanwhile a convicted felon runs the country...
This is horrendous! I am ashamed to be an American. Thanks for telling this story.
So, when Jasmine’s story first broke, I’m pretty sure she was referred to as a “journalist.” Apparently that was wrong, as we now know she is an actress and entrepreneur. Seems she has now also become a journalist and activist by default! Stay strong Jasmine and thanks to Christianne, team and PBS for highlighting this story!
I greatly commend her for her realizing that she was lucky being whyte & privileged! And for speaking out for those who can't... -- or those who wouldn't be listened to.
There is more to this story. the company that gave her the "job offer" was cofounded by her. she had been illegally sponsoring herself and gaming the immigration system. they initially revoked her visa. when she showed up at the canada-us border they simply turned her away. She then went to Mexico to try to enter that way with the same visa and paperwork, ie after having it revoked and being told it's revoked and that she can't enter the us with it. even her lawyer told her not to go to mexico and try that way, but she did it anyway.
@JeremyMckay-b7kso glad you got that all figured out, you must be an ICE sub-contractor. Alert has been searched and sent for your information and designation! Thanks for letting us know!
She is an opportunist. Hope she never returns to the US.
I'm so sorry what happened to Ms. Mooney...i was surprised she'd even want to return to the U.S. especially since she lives in a beautiful place like Vancouver. Glad she's ok now and using her voice to let others know the risks.
Given her experience, I would never want step foot back in the USA. The government could ban me for life.
We don’t want you
It sounds as though your lifetime ban from the USA is now self imposed.
its hard to sift through ten million illeagal people the liberals invited in.
I wouldn’t go anywhere near a US border at the moment !! 😆
I am not going back to the US - EVER! Not even for funerals.
Horrible!! Honestly I probably wouldn’t go back to any place that treated me that way! That is terrifying!! I’m so sorry she had to go through that!
Thank you very much for speaking about this, Jasmine! We all need to hear it.
Goodbye travel industry.
This video needs to be seen by every airline exec, travel agent, cruise company etc. Your customers are in danger of prison at the drop of a hat. A for profit prison that will do anything to keep them.
Hallo unemployement
Thank you for speaking up for everyone there Jasmine!!!
I love her for making this known and heard. I appreciate that she is cognizant of using her privilege to speak to this abhorrent situation. What is going on ???
I'm appalled and ashamed to be US citizen. This is not acceptable
Find a new country you’re proud of then.
Nope, very proud, she tried to circumvent the system. Pretty white women don’t get a free pass!
Please leave anytime
Well, other countries are open to you. Maybe it’s time.
@@LilyGazou not for over 65 with chronic illness...we are stuck here. We are also determined to stand against the corruption and inhumanity. Do you see why people have fled Haiti, Venezuela, Central America.
And the Trump administration just requested 45 billion dollars for ICE detention facilities. One can only imagine what this could lead to in terms of lack of due process or respect for the rights of detainees. Running dtention facilities will be a growth industry in America while China builds ever better EV’s. What a winning strategy! Americans deserve something better than this jingoism-infused idiocy!
Who sleepy Joe Biden for another 4 years?😂😂😂
Incarceration is actually one of the biggest industries in the USA.
Yes, for-profit prisons need to be filled. They pay commissions to enforcement officers to help meet this goal. These prisons will keep individuals incarcerated for as long as possible by any means necessary. In states across the South, evidence has shown similar practices involving for-profit prisons, as described above. You can find more information about this issue online. Billionaires are profiting off taxpayer money!
45 billion for concentration camps.
@@virtualreality512at least he followed international law. No, it's illegal to hold ppl who've committed no crime. We just deport them. We don't waste a ton of money holding them captive. Well unless our president is pushing for arrests to make it appear like he's doing stuff he isn't doing, like deporting illegal immigrants.
This is so shameful! This story needs to be shared everywhere. This is unbelievable!
You got one thing right, her story is not believable.😂
@@virtualreality512 📠
Thank you using your pain and horrific treatment for good, and advocating on behalf of those who cannot. This injustice is insufferable.
I’m so very sorry! I’m mortified! The American people don’t want this!
r u sure ! i woukd suggest many americans dont give a shit
I greatly commend her for her realizing that she was lucky being whyte & privileged! And for speaking out for those who can't... -- or those who wouldn't be listened to.
Somewhere between 15% to 40% of them do. Completely radicalized by FoX and friends or just plain old racists. Keep fighting!
Yes we do
@@bluespruce1222considering he won the election, I’d say his support is much higher, unfortunately. I live in a deep red state and the ignorance is real here, even now with all he’s done since inauguration, people still support him.
I've lived on the U.S.-Mexico border all of my life and crossed back and forth hundreds of times. CBP officers, many of them, are brutes, jerks and they enjoy treating people with cruelty. She's a white woman, and English speaker, attractive, she was treated better than most. I know a lot of people, innocent, that have been treated worse. There are even documented cases of CBP officers asking for sexual favors or even cases of rape. These guys have almost total immunity and a web to cover their assess almost every time. I have had the fortune to have traveled to at least three other countries and none have immigration agents that are half as bad as ours, not even Mexico as many would imagine.
That's so shocking, sad and shameful to learn 😢😮
I have travelled throughout the world, including travel into Syria, Iran, and China. US immigration is by far the least welcoming of any. The ONLY place I ever worry about being rejected is the US.
We have travelled a lot and have always avoided, at all costs, connecting via the US even before the orange fascist took office.
We do not even treat real criminals this way in Europe let alone people with deficient paper work for being in our country. If this is business in US there need to be lawyers willing to sue these businesses?
Yeah, there are but that takes time which some of these prisoners don't have (like the ones currently rotting in El Salvador) not only that, but our Derp-esque Leader has begun retaliating against law firms that go against him. This truly is the dumbest timeline. 😑
Is this the USA?
This does not bode well for tomorrow. 😥 Jasmine Mooney... Your voice holds a lot of power. Don't let ANYONE silence you! 🤬
Why do you think she was supposed to get special treatment? Her visa expired, and then denied, she was supposed to go home and reapply there!
@@Lilih654 She had a passport, which is all you need to be in the US as a Canadian citizen legally. The visa is for working in the US, which she wasn't doing yet. She was 100% legally there.
@@vivisector9999 Even with a passport you can be denied entry into a country. This chick thought she could get in at a different border. She was told by a lawyer not to try it & she tried against his recommendation. She would have started working if given half the chance. She wasn't very smart. She got hung up in the system She deserved what she got. She wanted publicity. She got it.
I does bode well in the future health of our great country.
Why is she not appearing on EVERY single news channel in America and Canada🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
she is?
Oligarchs.
Censorship
because other stories are even more terrible.
PLEASE, UNITED STATES, AMÉRICA IS THE CONTINENT OF 37 COUNTRIES. SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THAT CANADA IS PART OF NORTH AMERICA JUST LIKE GREENLAND & MÉXICO & BERMUDA & BAHAMAS. THE U.S. HAS STOLEN THE NAME OF THE CONTINENT AND HAVE BRAINWASHED PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW ABOUT GEOGRAPHY.🙄
This should be on every news channel, all media. Share it. Unacceptable and despicable.
Don't you think the fake news media who hate Trump so much would be on this case if she actually had a case? She is not telling the whole story because she must have done something illegal for all these to happen to her.
Thanks for speaking out, although I'm sorry for your experience ❤.
*My biggest concern is how we are going to survive all these financial and political crises, especially the power struggle in the US. The government has really made things difficult for its citizens and we cannot just sit by and suffer the consequences of bad governance🙏.......*
I don't really blame people who panic.
Lack of information can be a big hurdle. I've been making more than $21k passively by just going into crypto investment, and I don't have to do much work. Inflation or no inflation, my finances remain secure. So I really don't blame people who panic.
I am new to the crypto world and don't understand how it really works. A friend told me trading with a professional trader is the best strategy for beginners and busy investors, but for months now I've been making so research and haven't found any.please any recommendations.
She's a licensed broker and successful entrepreneur from the state.
Thanks to Mrs. Evelyn verra.
I first met her last year at a conference in Washington DC, invested 2k and within a week of trade I make over 15k.
It seems like the perfect job for sociopaths in the ICE system. So sorry you went through this, and I’m so glad you made it out and speaking out🙏🏼Privatized prison system😡
There would not have been a more serious approach taken to immigration/proper visas, if biden admin did not allow 20 million to invade the country to begin with! It is all a result of that! lets put the blame where it actually belongs!
Wonderful reporting.
This happened to an Australian high profile National MMA Coach who flew to America to attend a conference and made full disclosure at all stages of his visa application this was his intent, but to no avail they said there was some irregularity in the visa and so he was incarcerated and was forced to fight Mexican Gangs members who had stolen his blankets. The Mexicans came off second best but he was then told he was being targeted by the gangs and to watch out. It was literally life and death for him. The ICE officer escorting him to the plane told him this should never have happened.
CBP is full of Hispanics who don't like English speakers from other countries.
ICE are Gestapo.
oh, how nice. did he give him a piece of candy as consolation?
The gestapo shed a little tear for him, isn't that sweet...
Don’t come to the US until Trump is gone. You may end up in a way worse situation than this woman. Like others have said here, so many others do not have a voice to tell their story. American dream is gone, for now. I am so embarrassed of my country.
It will be Vance after Trump. So the question is if they will be able to fine tune this system.
From Canada: There never was an American dream ma'am. It was and still is, all about money and corruption.
I just turned down contract work for a large corporation as I will not risk dealing with this outright rights violation. This is the other reason Canadians are boycotting travel. America is a lost country!
Who cares 😂
@@Jessebyob You will soon found out. you are acting like americans are living in a vacuum. your economy is tied to the rest of the world and at some point, you are gonna feel it.
What a brave woman. Jasmine's story is very similar to that of another Canadian businesswoman who also spent two weeks detained in those horrible facilities. Both of them recognized that they were privileged compared to many other detainees. I spent three weeks in the US in 2012 and was treated very well by everyone. Because I speak English very fluently and with almost no foreign accent, people smiled and said nice things to me whenever they found out I was from Brasil. I brought a lot of fond memories and beautiful pictures.
I spent 6 months from 2016-2017 in ice detention between Texas,Oklahoma and Louisiana , after a traffic stop in Texas. They let me go after I proved my green card application was pending approval. Long story short, I moved from the u.s in 2022 after I felt trump was more than likely to return. It’s no longer the country I moved and lived for 23 years. I don’t regret moving, it’s just too toxic of a place and a dead dream.
Holyv ship . 6 months.
Man, 6 months for a traffic stop?? Not even exaggerating, the US sounds much worse than ruzzia and it probably is. And ruzzia is not known to have a just judicial system OR comfortable prisons.
good for you.. it is difficult to live in fear
Few questions for you. Maybe I'm reading your comment wrong and not understanding it. You said you moved and lived in the US for 23 years and that is no longer the country you knew? How was your green card application pending if you lived in the US for 23 years? Never applied?
If you were a green card holder, why didn't you apply for citizenship after the 5 year residency period?
Not trying to be an asshole or anything but I'm just curious.
@@KalboVelloHi! I’m an immigration attorney and maybe I can help clear up (possibly) what could have happened here.
Our immigration processing times for permanent residency /green cards vary wildly between processing centers and the basis under which you apply (marriage, family member of a US citizen, work visa, asylum, etc.). On average, I’d say the processing time is about 2-3 years. If that was the case, and this commenter had just applied for his green card earlier in 2016, then it’s very possible for him to not receive the green card until 2019. After that, staying in the US an additional 3 years would mean he still couldn’t apply for citizenship/naturalization unless his green card was based on marriage to a U.S. citizen.
(Permanent residents can apply for citizenship after 5 years unless their green card is marriage based, then it’s 3 years.)
I hope this helps and I’m so glad to see people learning more about our complicated immigration system, how difficult it actually is, and the many different ways someone can be in the U.S. lawfully even before they’re a permanent resident.
Props to her for admitting her pretty white girl with money privilege. I appreciate that she is taking up the fight for those less privileged.
Sounds racist
@@okaycola2
Seek help. Please!
@@okaycola2yes you are
The key word is money
I don't how her degree of privilege is an issue here & I'm astonished that the point was even put to her by the interviewer. The fact is, she was detained over a technicality & imprisoned for no reason. Also, as far as I can gather, the technicality was an error on the government's part, not hers.
I will never go to the USA after hearing this. They are out of control.
I don’t blame you.
Same. And I was a regular visitor. Never again until they get rid of the orange dictator and fix everything he has done
@@sheepdog401you didn’t watch the video you’re publicly commenting on.
@@amymccall5263 there are a lot of bots that just make agonizing stupid comments.
I doubt you should take them serious. If I could flag bots I would.
@@sheepdog401exactly
I’m Canadian 🇨🇦and since day one of the Trump administration my decision was made to NOT SET FOOT in the US as long as this madness is going on. Mind you, we as a family used to go to Florida every winter and we have family all over the US ,but we’re done for now , no thank you for this kind of treatment for my fellow Canadians or any other human being for that matter.
My brother in law, cuban, came into the country via mexican border and was placed under custody for months until a judge granted him a status and he was able to enter the US after we paid a bond of $5000.00. When I went to an ICE office to pay for this bond so he could get out, I was treated like a criminal, the officers were the rudest people I've ever seen, treating people like stupid little children, I left with so much stress I couldnt breastfeed my newborn until next day, and the only thing I could think about is that if I was being treated like a criminal for no reason at all I couldn't imagine how bad they treated people detained in their centers
@vienasardinas3496... You mean those ICE officers who spent the last 4 years taking care of the unaccompanied children from other nations? People hired to actually do a real job suddenly relegated to changing diapers, feeding crying children and helping to keep them safe??
You mean THOSE ICE OFFICERS??!!! 🙄
Cause and effect simply appears to have no basis in this conversation -- anywhere.
Amazing!
children of unaccompanied
I’m so sorry that happened to you. It’s unconscionable. I live near the Canadian border and that’s how border agents treat American citizens day-to-day too, just out and about. They are just brazenly giant a-holes all day long
Say it with me. IT'S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE DENIED ENTRY OR YOUR VISA REVOKED. She should have just been immediately deported like usual. It's illegal to hold someone for NO CRIME.
Exactly!
That's what shes saying, she should have been deported or left to go back and buy her flight back home instead of Incarcerated for no valid reason whatsoever
@@ZhaliaBloom she was arrested then deported after she was processed. She was deported to Mexico because that’s where she attempted to enter the country try illegally.
@bngr_bngr Nothing she did was illegal. The USA was illegal according to our own laws. The right to contact her attorney was denied.
@@sheepdog401there is nothing on earth that isn’t illegal. There are trillions of laws on earth. Trillions. Just communicating with you we are probably violating all kinds of laws.
Awww she got the American version of Muslim, Black, Latino, and Arab experience.
As much as it's sad an unsuspecting White lady going thru this ... this is the reality of so many migrants and immigrants.
It takes the pple whose plle created the oppression to remove it. The work folks did for civil rights have been upturned in a gross and egregious way - all that work for the past 100yrs! All the deaths, blood, tears, life and committment of Americans and immigrants who got policies a d legislations changed... upturned so much!
May this lady stay safe and continues to speak up, use her platform. Ty for all the work you are doing Ms Mooney. Crimminals running this country.
The point isn't boohoo poor me. The point is, if this can happen to a white Canadian woman, no one is safe.
But that is good it spreads! The more can see it the more can boycott US
It shines a light on it when they are affected by it.
Sadly, it needs to come from people who look like this for things to change.
YES! As with the protests, I am glad they are letting brown and black people rest , and that good white people are doing their part!!
A Canadian actress is a criminal???? What a joke this administration is!
This is outrageous.
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horrifying if they can do it to more or less the archetypal privileged woman.
We are all black now
@@JosedeJezeus Yes, now no one will be immune from the evil.
How is she privileged woman? If someone isn’t privileged it doesn’t make others automatically privileged
I am from Monaco. I spent the last 25 years millions of dollars traveling to the US. I wouldn’t do so anymore as long Trump is running the country like a shit show. I will also do everything in my power to warn others traveling or investing money in this regime !
Thank you for sharing
Horrific! This administration is pure evil.
You, my dear, are a fool. You need to think more intelligently and not willfully be a dumbass.
There is more to this story. the company that gave her the "job offer" was cofounded by her. she had been illegally sponsoring herself and gaming the immigration system. they initially revoked her visa. when she showed up at the canada-us border they simply turned her away. She then went to Mexico to try to enter that way with the same visa and paperwork, ie after having it revoked and being told it's revoked and that she can't enter the us with it. even her lawyer told her not to go to mexico and try that way, but she did it anyway.
But you are ok with hundreds of children and woman unalived due to biden admins unsafe immigration policies? Held or deported is worse to you than a woman with 4 little kids unalived or a 12 year old unalived, hundreds of daughters, mothers, siblings, children unalived plus 400,000 children trafficked. THAT is pure evil! there is always going to be some mistakes made, a some sad stories no matter what policies but if you think temporarily detained or being deported is worse than permanently unalived then that is part of the problem! These people also had a choice to be in a country illegally or like this woman...not get her proper paperwork done legally, the unalived and trafficked had NO choice.