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It's not just she's talking about the pain of adolescence, the pain of feeling like an ugly duckling, the pain of not being in the in crowd or whatever. It's also about being the tall, blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader. Remember. I was the cheerleader. I was the girl that Janice sang about in At 17. I was the good girl who was dating the bad boy.

Während sie meine Visa verabschiedeten und ich warte, sagen sie, Jasmine, kannst du uns sprechen? Und sie sagt, wir wurden gesagt, dass wir diese Visa nicht verabschieden können, weil du in der Vergangenheit zwei Probleme hattest. Und sie sagt, du bist nicht in Angst, aber weil wir diese Probleme haben und weil wir dir diese Visa hier nicht geben können, müssen wir dich zurück in Kanada schicken.

Und in meinen Händen bedeutet das, okay, ich buche meinen Flug und gehe zurück in Kanada und zeige ihnen die Wahrheit. I sit down and I kid you not. And this man comes out and he says, Jasmine, come with me. He brings me downstairs and all of a sudden all my things are ripped from my hands. My phone was ripped from my hand, my hands up against the wall.

They started patting me down and I'm like, whoa, what is happening? And they're like, you're being detained. And it took me 12 days to get out and I went to jail.

So it wasn't until day three that I was allowed a phone call, which I only remembered my best friend's phone number. So I was only able to contact her, who I'm like, you need to call my lawyers, you need to call my family. And that was the first time that an officer talked to me and they said, here is your paperwork. You are being banned from America for five years unless you appeal.

It doesn't matter if you sign or not, though, because this is happening regardless.

So, there was about 140 women in my unit. Everyone was placed in the system for different reasons, but a lot of them had similar stories. So a lot of women had legal working visas and either overstayed or they were reapplying in an office and they got denied and thrown in like me.

I had multiple lawyers and then I was able to get in contact with the media while I was in prison. And the second that my story got launched, ICE officers called my lawyers. What do you see as being the issue here? Who do you blame for what happened to you? What everyone needs to understand is the system that I was put into is a privately owned, publicly traded company.

It is given government grants to run these businesses, but the government isn't running what I was placed into. So I am trying to bring this to light to make change that they do in an investigation of what is actually going on in there. Jasmine Mooney speaking to Julian Borica.

Still to come in this podcast. My phone was ripped from my hand, my hands up against the wall. They started patting me down and I'm like, whoa, what is happening?

There's no sound here, no trees, and it just smells like poison, a poison that doesn't kill insects.

I'm interrogated 10 to 12 hours every day. The jailer would knock on the cell door and say, Do you hear that? They're beating them. Be ready. You're next. Men molest you here and no one cares.