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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Jasmine Mooney: There was no explanation, no warning. One minute, I was in an immigration office talking to an officer about my work visa, which had been approved months before and allowed me, a Canadian, to work in the US. The next, I was told to put my hands against the wall, and patted down like a criminal before being sent to an Ice detention center without the chance to talk to a lawyer.

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Jasmine Mooney is the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. Jasmine felt as if she had been kidnapped -- "thrown into some sort of sick psychological experiment meant to strip us of every ounce of strength and dignity." ICE lied to her, bound her in chains, seized every conceivable ...

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-- Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM

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Thanks for posting. FTA: "Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It's a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from ICE contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from ICE contracts."

Our awful prison-industrial complex has been a racket for some time: prisondivest.com

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-20 11:00 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This is f***ed

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-03-20 11:28 AM | Reply


Thanks for posting.

Yeah wonder what took so long to expose this? I bet Gal thought this would look bad for Trump. But ignored it in Biden administration.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-20 12:24 PM | Reply

Yeah wonder what took so long to expose this? I bet Gal thought this would look bad for Trump. But ignored it in Biden administration.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut

Because we had due process under Biden.

#4 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-03-20 12:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Yeah wonder what took so long to expose this?"

There is no legal requirement to disclose anything.

Signed,
Republicans

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-20 12:29 PM | Reply

allowed me, a Canadian, to work in the US

lol
that was then, this is now.

#6 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-20 08:27 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I was told to put my hands against the wall

[mops brow]

#7 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-20 08:29 PM | Reply

www.google.com

omg I haven't laughed like this in ...minutes

#8 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-20 08:32 PM | Reply

"I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky"

I too was stuck in Canada once upon a time but I had no lawyers or media attention and eventually left the freezing cell of a country and returned to the US.

#9 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-03-21 06:44 AM | Reply

I would have expected more MAGA victory laps over these successful trial balloons.

Hog-tied and placed in Indefinite Detention with No Charges Filed is what MAGA wants for Transgenders and Democrats.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-21 09:37 AM | Reply

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