B.C. woman held in detention for 11 days after trying to enter U.S. to be released, father says
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A B.C. woman who has been detained by U.S. immigration officials for 11 days, after trying to enter the country, will be released on Friday, according to her father.
Speaking to CBC on Thursday afternoon, not long after getting word of Jasmine Mooney's upcoming release from an Arizona detention centre, Stephen Mooney said he's feeling a "lot of relief" — but also a lot of frustration.
"Jasmine's a strong girl, but what she has gone through is … no one should do that," said Stephen, who lives in Whitehorse.
"Just the lack of due process and the lack of communication that we've had through that detention centre, I feel for, of course, not only Jasmine, but the many other people that are in there."
Speaking to CBC News earlier Thursday, Jasmine's mother, Alexis Eagles, said her daughter — who grew up in Yukon and had been living in B.C. until last year — was being detained at the San Luis Regional Detention Center after she recently tried to enter the U.S. from Mexico.
Eagles said Jasmine obtained a three-year work visa for the U.S. last spring and had been living in Los Angeles, working in marketing communications. According to Eagles, Mooney came back to Canada for a visit in November and when she tried to return to the States, her visa was revoked and she was denied entry.
Eagles is less clear on what happened next, but said that Mooney then got "some sort of consulting visa application."
"She attempted to return to the States with the new visa, and she had already been flagged so they just detained her," Eagles said.
"As we understand it, it's because she was entering via Mexico … we believe that had she been entering, tried to enter directly through Canada, they would have just turned her around."
In a Facebook post, Eagles said Jasmine was held at the San Ysidro border crossing for three days after she tried to enter the U.S. on March 3, and was then moved to San Diego before she and others were "forcibly removed from their cells at 3 a.m." and sent to the Arizona facility around March 9.
Eagles said she acknowledges that her daughter "did not make a good decision, that she probably should not have tried to enter the States…. We don't deny that she was detained because of the way she tried to enter the States."
CBC News has reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but did not hear back as of Thursday evening.
Eagles's concern was with the treatment Jasmine has experienced while in detention, and the fact that it was never clear when or how she might be released. Eagles is also frustrated by how difficult it's been to get information about Jasmine, having to rely on friends in the U.S. for periodic updates.
"She's been moved to three different facilities," Eagles said in an interview from Abbotsford, B.C.
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