Actress Jasmine Mooney shares her emotional 12-day ordeal in U.S. detention, highlighting the inhumane conditions and lack of information during her immigration process.
Jasmine Mooney, the actress best known for her role in American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, has shared the shocking and harrowing details of her 12-day detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Mooney, who was arrested while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, spoke candidly in an emotional interview with CTV News on March 15, 2025, upon her return to Vancouver.
She revealed that she was still “processing” the traumatic experience.On March 3, 2025, Mooney crossed the San Ysidro border from Mexico to San Diego, carrying an incomplete application for a new Trade NAFTA (TN) work visa after her previous visa had been unexpectedly revoked. Her ordeal began when she was detained for three nights at the border and then moved to the Otay Mesa Detention Centre in San Diego.
There, she was held for an additional three days under what she described as “inhumane” conditions.In an emotional recount of her time in detention, Mooney shared the severe lack of basic necessities. “I was sleeping on a mat with no pillow or blanket, wrapped in aluminum foil like a dead body for two and a half days,” she recalled, highlighting the harsh treatment she faced.
Her situation worsened when a tracking system showed that she was released, only for her family and friends to discover that she had .