Originally Posted by
ICESURVIVOR1
Mike, I can tell you what happens if they had decided that she planned to live in the states, she would have been cuffed and ankle shackled, taken to an Immigration jail, and dumped in a freezing pen with up to 80 other women. She could be stuck there for months, sometimes years.
Unlikely. What you describe is the treatment given to those that are awaiting deportation, not those denied entry. Those denied entry are most often simply placed on the next flight back to wherever they came from. In some cases, they might spend a night essentially in jail if the next flight back was not until the following day.
Note that I'm not in any way defending the manner in which those denied entry and cannot be repatriated until the next day are treated or housed, nor the conditions for those in immigration detention that are awaiting deportation. All I'm saying is that someone that arrives at a US port of entry with a valid visa but is denied entry is extremely unlikely to face "months, sometimes years" in detention.