- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s a good TV series called Alaska daily, which has this phenomenon play a big part of the storyline
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.
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.