Canadian detained for 11 days by U.S. immigration speaks out for others stuck in limbo [Video]

Jasmine Mooney’s smile went viral after the 35-year-old Canadian was taken into U.S. custody at the Mexican border in March, but her story is now whispered in fear. 

On March 3, Mooney tried to get her work visa renewed, entering at an immigration office at the Mexico-San Diego border, against a U.S. lawyer’s advice. Instead she ended up being denied, and then, all of a sudden, detained.

Mooney spent 11 days in custody — off and on in cement cells she says are dubbed “ice boxes” — with little more than a thin foil emergency blanket. Mooney says she faced numerous transfers, humiliating medical tests, degrading treatment and no answers — despite pleas to let her pay for her own flight home.

She at first refused food and couldn’t sleep, but then forced herself to get up and help others.

“It breaks you. That place breaks you into a million …