I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

  • badwetter@kbin.melroy.orgOP
    433·
    4 days ago

    @[email protected]

    That was disingenuous of her, and it raised all sorts of flags. Justify it all you want, but she tried to game her entry, that part is obvious. Why wouldn’t you re-apply at the same place you were refused? Come on, put your thinking cap on …

    @[email protected]

      • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us
        151·
        4 days ago

        The other part is that the article mentions that she shouldn’t have applied for the visa at either spot on the border but at the consulate,

        The officer I spoke to was kind but told me that, due to my previous issues, I needed to apply for my visa through the consulate. I told her I hadn’t been aware I needed to apply that way, but had no problem doing it.

        So reapplying from where she got refused is still the wrong advice.

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
      12·
      4 days ago

      It does not appear she was doing anything illegal or fishy like you pointed out. She was just getting her work visa renewed at the San Ysidro Port of Entry along the mexico boarder, which she has done successfully before in the past. You do this by crossing into mexico and then crossing back.

      Mooney moved to Los Angeles in summer 2024, working on her business with a three-year work visa, which she applied for successfully by entering the U.S. from Mexico. She was trying to do the same thing after her first visa was unexpectedly revoked in November.

      Len Saunders, an immigration lawyer based in Blaine, Wash., told Global News that he is not Mooney’s lawyer but he did speak to her a few weeks ago after being referred by a fellow client.

      He said he is familiar with the San Ysidro Port of Entry and has referred clients who are in that area to cross into Mexico and then come back in order to get their visas renewed.

      “When she told me she was going there, I advised her not to, only because of the current political climate,” he said.

      Saunders said Mooney told him she had been to that border crossing before and everything was fine and she was confident about getting the visa.

      TBH, what what Canadians need to be talking about is why a Canadian citizen was detained for the extended amount of time she was. This should not have happened at all period. No matter what the circumstances.