Summary
Jasmine Mooney, a 35-year-old Canadian woman, has been detained in U.S. immigration facilities since March 3 after attempting to enter with an incomplete Trade NAFTA work visa application.
She was initially held at San Ysidro border crossing before being transferred in chains to detention centers in San Diego and Arizona.
Her mother, Alexis Eagles, reports inhumane conditions including overcrowded concrete cells with constant lighting and inadequate facilities.
Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a “nightmare” while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they’re aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.
Build a wall…around the USA. WTF!!!
Wall? I thought we upgraded to an Iron Dome?
I thought we upgraded to an Iron Dome?
Yes, you did think that. Thanks for asking.
We need and have always needed a wall around the south, when nafta started they infested my Midwestern town with their crime and drugs and it went to hell overnight.
Nothing worse than having those southerners come in with their crime and drugs and interrupting your midwestern meth making, meth taking, and meth related crimes.
… They brought the meth, we just had alcohol, some weed (not much).
Do you know anything about the Midwest?
Canada needs a Dennis Rodman to send over to try to get the hostages back like Obama did with North Korea
I thought that’s why you sent Gretzky? You can have him back btw.
Basketball diplomacy builds good will.
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America is now an axis of evil state. No better than Iran or Russia.
i believe all states are evil, to be honest!
some are just actively persuing evil stuff more than others
but given half a chance, capitalists in any country would turn to fascism
“Axis of evil” was a phrase coined by W in order to justify his highly illegal “war on terror”, and we’re still paying the price for that. Just adopting a propaganda concept this stupid as a viable way to categorize nations is not a good move.
More like the war of terror
Recycling is very important if we are going to avoid environmental catastrophe.
Hence Starmer used the phrase ‘Coalition of the willing’
Save the planet one phrase at a time!
Also ironic given Iran is in this state because of US imperialism
Comparing Iran to Russia and the US is strange in every way. Iran has a very defensive military, geared towards defending Iran. There aren’t exactly private military contractors from Iran everywhere just murdering anyone that isn’t snow white. Iran hasn’t surrounded the US with military bases. People just completely swallowed that axis of evil horseshit.
Um look I‘m completely against both Russian and American imperialism, but they did support Assad in Syria: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
Iirc they sent their revolutionary guards there to fight. And Hezbollah was deeply involved in defending the Assad regime. With the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah they do have proxy armies in the Middle East.
Iran is a lovely country and its horrible what western imperialism has done to it, but their regime is as shitty as it gets. If Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists and they’d be under the influence of Iran instead it would be the same shit all over again, saying this just to make a point.
Iran got involved in Syria to fight IS, the same people that rebranded as HTS, the leader of which now has put on a suit, changed his name and rules the new Syria. One of the first thing they did: started massacring minorities in Syria by the thousands, just in the last week. Also, Syria is in the Middle East, next to Iran. Iran isn’t involved in military operations in Mexico. If IS wasn’t stopped in Iraq and Syria, they’d be massacring civilians in Iran, since Iranians are Shia and therefore heretics to be killed.
Your view unfortunately seems to have been influenced by the classification of nations as axis of evil that I referred to above. It’s confused and incoherent, and lacks a whole lot of nuance. That’s what happens when nations are classified as “evil”, which is a metaphysical religious term making nuance impossible. You say “if Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists”, thereby implying that you consider this a worth while goal, while simultaneously vilifying the only forces in the region working to achieve that liberation, namely Hamas, Hizbollah and Ansar Allah in Yemen, as “proxy armies” of Iran, completely delegitimizing their agency and the fight for the very liberation you seem to support.
Finally, it’s absolutely wild to state that a Palestine under the influence of Iran would be “the same shit all over again” as the almost century long oppression, occupation, dispossession and genocide carried out by the Zionists against the Palestinian people. Absolutely wild! I urge you to take a step back and consider that statement, and why you would make such an absurd and outrageous claim to begin with. Because I feel like you’re doing that without thinking about it a whole lot, and would reconsider that position if you thought about the comparison you’re making. Iran has zero designs on dispossessing or occupying Palestine and its people. To compare that with what Israel has been doing is just not a good look.
This news website is owned by Postmedia, which is American. Sharing this info makes Canadian not want to go into the USA anymore. So I’m thinking this is possibly wanted by the current American Administration? But why would they not want Canadians to visit the USA anymore? Could this be an effort to reinforce an hostile image of Canadians? I guess it would be much easier to convince bordering States that Canada is hostile if they stopped seeing so many nice Canadians every day? I don’t know I’m just rambling here.
I appreciate your rambling, but I think you might appreciate some time off of the internet.
Division and chaos.
You should be suspicious of American-owned media, but it’s not the case they they are running state-issued propaganda at all times.
Rather, the media is following the interests of its owners: American oligarchs. One of their primary interests is “get more money” and any headline that draws eyeballs serves that end.
I do not find it a coincidence that its been happening specifically to young women. Yet to see 6’2 Canadian male hockey player get grabbed.
That could just be the media’s bias in reporting.
Yeah, same happens with kidnapping and murder victims. There’s a reason it’s called Missing White Woman Syndrome. The media is extremely biased towards covering attractive young white women who have gone missing, while virtually every other demographic gets ignored. Asian and Latina women are often covered disproportionately as well, but not to the extent that missing white women are covered. Black women get almost no coverage, and the same goes for men of basically every race and age.
There’s a good TV series called Alaska daily, which has this phenomenon play a big part of the storyline
I remember many years ago, there were two little girls that went missing about the same time. One was white, the other black. The little white girl just got lost and was found pretty quickly, and her story dominated the news for weeks. Meanwhile, the little black girl (I think it was in West Virginia) had been kidnapped by a sadistic couple who abused and tortured her until one night she chewed through her bindings, escaped, and trekked through the forest for days before finding help. She barely got a “missing girl found” blurb on the news. The fact that she barely got any news coverage actually became a bigger story later on than her actual kidnapping did at the time. It was infuriating.
Don’t even get me started on the missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) phenomenon that not only gets next to zero media coverage, but also a severe lack of law enforcement attention.
With MMIW, often the cops are involved/know more than they let on. “Starlight tours” I don’t think are just a Canadian thing.
Yeah, the way we treat the native peoples of this land is abhorrent.
Native women have been getting kidnapped for centuries. It’s not even news.
maybe! americans DO hate women really really passionately. there was a famous canadian author who wrote a book about it.
Some Americans do. Other Americans hate those Americans fairly passionately.
I would argue that we are not americans. just people who were born here and can’t get out.
Sure but I also remember trumps first term where thousands of specifically migrant women in US custody were unaccounted for for months. Im not in the habbit of giving people with track records of human trafficking benefits of doubt.
I guarantee you they do not care. This is far more likely to be media bias. If they’re detaining her for an incomplete visa instead of just turning her around then they’re detaining people every day, no matter their nationality or body build. It sounds cool to think they’d be afraid of a large guy but the US police are sadly just more likely to kill them with guns.
This is far more likely to be media bias.
Yeah the story of the German girl it happened to around the same time included her talking about a Spanish lad in the cell with her for the same thing.
Not saying it wasn’t reported on in Spain but I didn’t see his case anywhere in the news.
It did happen to an Irish girl too last month. Fortunately we’ve fairly decent relations with the US but unfortunately it didn’t sound like her treatment was any better than this tbh.
B.C. woman held in detention for 11 days after trying to enter U.S. to be released, father says
Grateful to the family using their privledge and platform to talk about the conditions at the San Ysidro border crossing, the San Diego cells, and in San Luis Regional Detention Center. Keeping the lights on all the time is torture.
“There’s 30 other people in her cell that have not even been spoken to by a detention caseworker. So there are people in there whose families don’t know where their kids are.” - Jasmine’s father, Stephen Mooney.
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[B.C. Premier David Eby] also said he was “profoundly concerned about these kind of actions” by the U.S. administration, saying they “violate the very idea that Canadians are safe in the U.S. when we visit.”
“The nature of our relationship is so fraught right now that this case makes us all wonder, you know, what about our relatives who are working in the States? What about when we cross the border, what kind of experience are we gonna have?” Eby said.
Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai also weighed in on Thursday, with a letter to the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement urging Jasmine’s “prompt release,” and saying “the treatment of our citizens while in the U.S. must be fair and transparent.”
…“violate the very idea that Canadians are safe in the U.S. when we visit.”
Mexico and friends: “¿primer tiempo?”
Now it come back around to the white people
White-Canadians now have the rare experience to feel what it is like to be brown in America.
no amount of conformity will ever make you safe under fascism. the noose will always tighten to meet the fascists’ needs for torture. once the old enemy is eliminated a new hegemony will be homogenized and the torture will continue either at the same pace or accelerated.
it’s not really about skin tone, accent, visa access, sexual identity, gender identity, or even political stance. it’s about that the fascists must other, and they will other you any way that thy can.
Yep, just like how conservatives wanted to ignore aids since they thought it would only kill gays and drug users. They fail to see how their cruelty will come back around on themselves.
Or when Jared didn’t want to respond to COVID because it was mainly hitting blue cities.
They’re 100% going to go after PREP, PEP, doxy, etc. There is already a hidden epidemic of antibiotic resistant syphillis and gonorrhea.
This will also be a leopard eating faces thing, considering the sheer quantity of “straight” conservative men that enjoy “the apps”…
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Callous reaction to what is a clear overstep on behalf of US CBP. Denying entry would have been a more efficient move than detainment, unless the cruelty is the point.
unless the cruelty is the point.
it is. guns.
Most civilized countries would respond to this situation by denying entry. Not throwing a person into your for profit detention system to make a quick buck.
At long last the world gets to see America’s true colors.
Nah, this is a completely nutso response, regardless of who she is. She’s not stupid, our government and our border policies are.
She didn’t do anything wrong. A TN visa works by the Canadian professional showing up at the border with their job offer, and asking for en employment visa on arrival. Which is exactly what she did. Parts of the forms are then completed on site, by the immigration officer. Had she been refused for whatever reason, she should have simply been turned away. Not arrested.
Source: Have hired Canucks in the past to work on my team in California.
Maybe instead of spending hundreds of man-hours and resources to detain someone indefinitely with no charges they could ask her to fill out the form fully instead of arresting her.
“You forgot to fill out these boxes, back of the line.” would surely be more ‘efficient’ if that were the point wouldn’t it?
guns
People forget that the BLM protests that had armed protesters had the most well behaved cops. I’m not kidding.
How to make anyone scared to ever visit your country again…
It’s starting to seem like Canada should issue a travel advisory against going to the USA.
In some ways I hope it doesn’t come to that. In others … I mean, I’d win a friendly bet if it happened, so there’s that.
Not just Canada…
If I were in charge, that’s exactly what I would do. “US ICE agents are detaining Canadian citizens at the border. Until and unless US agents stop detaining Canadians at the border and return those they have detained, we are advising Canadian citizens to not travel to the USA.” Post it right next to all other Canadian travel advisories.
And do what Lithuania did at the Belarusian border: There are signs telling pretty much the analogue to what you’re suggesting. On the roadside while approaching the border. As physical signs.
If you guys do that take pictures and send them to America so we can put them in political ads.
Here’s an article that includes a picture like you asked: https://www.orla.fm/a-disturbing-message-on-the-lithuanian-border-do-not-travel-to-belarus-you-may-not-come-back/
Ooo thank you.
There already is a travel advisory in Canada. It’s more personal though.
If I tell my friend I’m going to the states they’ll stage an intervention.
“You’re desire to travel to the US hurts me in the following ways…”
Honestly yeah, if a paperwork fuck up can get you detained for more than 24 hours there’s something seriously wrong and travelling there is dangerous for the border police alone.
Not just Canada, there’s similar stories for a lot of nationalities, every country should be putting out warnings.
The US has lost it’s mind.
Couple the immigration issues with the fact that planes keep falling out of the sky in their air space due to air traffic control being gutted and even flying to Canada starts becoming dangerous too.
I’ll be avoiding the whole of North America for the foreseeable future, it’s just not safe.
When the courts said it was legal for a billionaire to spend 250 million to buy votes, I knew there was nothing left of our Democracy. I asked around, no one I knew had 250 million to buy votes for Kamala. Sorry guys.
B.C.?
British Columbia, a Canadian province.
Sorry you are getting downvoted for being one of today’s 10,000
European countries also need to start adding more specific geographical indicators to the titles. Specifically such indicators that mean nothing to people from outside the country. Wielkopolska’s teen, Moravian resident, Sachsen-Anhalt toddler…
and then make them into even more meaningless initialisms.
To be fair though, this article is from a local British Columbian newspaper it’s not like a national or international thing so they don’t really have much reason to specify as most of the local news doesn’t usually go global.
Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a “nightmare” while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they’re aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.
Oh fuck that, what else does Global Affairs do if not at the very least advocate for Canadians imprisoned in a hostile foreign nation? She was stopped and jailed for not having a complete work visa, that is not an immigration matter its a refusal of entry issue. Like whats the crime here? And not deporting someone due to them not being allowed in the US (but then holding them in the US) should be an act of war.
In a statement, Global Affairs Canada said consular officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and provide consular assistance.
“Every country or territory decides who can enter or exit through its borders. The Government of Canada cannot intervene on behalf of Canadian citizens with regard to the entry and exit requirements of another country,” the statement read.
Whilst smiling very slightly manically, and quietly whispering with the eyes ”I’m going to fucking murder you, and I’m going to take my time about it”
This is a Type 2 “Sorry” scenario
