The Canadian Jasmine Moeney who holds Ice for days after he has tried to come in from Mexico, says her mother

A Canadian woman who had appeared in an “American Pie” film was held by American immigration officers for a few days while trying to cross the border from Mexico to the US to renew her work visa, according to her mother. The woman’s father expects his daughter to return to Canada to Canada on Friday.

Jasmine Moeney, a 35-year-old business consultant who appeared in various TV and film roles, including “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love” from 2009, was held by American immigration and customs enforcement on March 3, her mother Alexis Eagles said Wednesday on Facebook. Moeney tried to cross the border with her visa paper and a vacancy of a company in the US

Moeney crossed the border to request a temporary visa that is known as a TN visa, which she had previously successfully obtained, according to Canadian Broadcaster Global News. The TN visa is a non-immigrant visa with which Canadian and Mexican citizens in the US can work in certain professional jobs under the conditions of the North American free trade pact that is known as the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement.

Her visa was refused and according to Eagles she was held for three nights on the border crossing of San Ysidro in South California. She was then transferred to the OTAY MESA Detention Center in San Diego and held three more nights.

On Sunday, an online detain system of prisoners showed that Moeney had been released, according to Eagles, but 24 hours later there was still no sign or communication of her, so that her family and friends were left in a state of uncertainty and worries.

“We finally learned that around 30 people, including Jasmine, were violently removed from their cells at 3:00 am and transferred to the San Luis -center in Arizona,” Eagles said on Facebook. “They are housed together in a single concrete cell without natural light, fluorescent lights that are never switched off, no mats, no blankets and limited bathroom facilities.”

Moeney’s friend Brittany Kors told the Canadian newspaper De Globe and Mail that the American customs and border protection agency suddenly informed Moeney of her visa denial and she was held while she was busy booking a flight back to Canada.

“Without any warning about what would perspire, I was literally just taken,” Moeney told CTV News In a telephone interview of the detention facility of Arizona. “I feel that I was abducted.”

ICE San Diego Station KGTV told On Thursday it was held Moeney because he had no legal documentation to be in the country. “All aliens contrary to US immigration legislation can be subject to arrest, detention and, if found by the final order, removal from the US, regardless of nationality,” said an ICE spokeswoman at the station.

Moeney’s father, Stephen Moeney, said in an interview with CBC Radio that he expected his daughter to be brought to a detention center in Tijuana, Mexico and released. He expects that she will fly back to Vancouver on Friday evening, British Columbia.

In one Facebook message On Thursday, Eagles said she bought a flight ticket for her daughter and waited for ice to approve it. She also said that she was careful that Moeney will be at home in the coming days.

Moeney’s mother said she was very concerned about the living conditions of her daughter in detention. She called Ice’s treatment of her daughter ‘Inhuman and deeply worrying’.

“Being held is one thing, but there is no excuse for the way people are treated while they are in custody or for the delays in deportation,” she said. “They are not criminals and they just want to go home.”

Dina Destin, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, told CBS News in a statement that they are aware of the detention of a Canadian in the US and that consular officials are in contact with local authorities to collect information and offer consulate aid.

“Every country or territory determines who can enter or leave through its limits. The government of Canada cannot intervene on behalf of Canadian citizens with regard to the access and exit requirements of another country,” Destin said in the statement.