Summary
Canadian citizen Jasmine Mooney was detained by ICE for two weeks despite having a valid U.S. work visa. Stopped at the San Diego border, she was abruptly arrested, denied legal counsel, and held in freezing cells before being transferred to a private detention center.
She witnessed systemic inefficiencies, inhumane conditions, and detainees trapped in bureaucratic limbo.
After media attention and legal intervention, Mooney was released.
Her experience highlights the profit-driven nature of private detention centers and the broader failures of U.S. immigration enforcement under Trump’s administration.
Has been for quite a while, it’s just that Americans have been told they’re number 1 for so long and most of them don’t travel so they don’t see anything else.
I highly recommend foreign travel. For example Colombia seems to be completely developed in some places and stuck in the 1950’s in other places.