A Canadian woman who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for two weeks has written an account of the ordeal, in which she said she felt "like I'd been kidnapped."
Writing in The Guardian, Jasmine Mooney described being taken into custody while she was reapplying for a work visa despite the fact that officials never accused her of any wrongdoing.
"I was taken to a tiny, freezing cement cell with bright fluorescent lights and a toilet," she explained. "There were five other women lying on their mats with the aluminum sheets wrapped over them, looking like dead bodies. The guard locked the door behind me."
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After a couple of days, she was given a stack of paperwork to sign and told that she faced a five-year ban from reentering the United States unless she applied for reentry through the consulate.
She signed the papers but was still kept under detention without explanation.
"Then they moved me to another cell – this time with no mat or blanket," she said. "I sat on the freezing cement floor for hours. That’s when I realized they were processing me into real jail: the Otay Mesa Detention Center."
Upon arriving at the center, she was told that she could be detained there for months on end.
