[zarzavat]

I know of no other country that locks people up while they process immigration appeals. That's crazy.

Other countries will either summarily deport you and make you resolve your status from outside the country, or let you stay while you appeal and deport you when your appeals are exhausted. Both are sane things to do, this is not.

[yencabulator]

The US has a very strong belief in punishing people. It helps them create an "out group" to shun. For those people, the worse the conditions of your jail are, the better. It's some sort of a relic of the specific religious background common in the USA, and it's disgusting.

Other parts of the world believe in human dignity and helping people fix the things that are broken in their lives. Look up Norwegian prisons...