Four Cuban immigrants being held at a Texas detention center claim they were among dozens who were driven to the Mexican border and pressured by masked officials to cross it or face imprisonment and beatings, according to a letter civil liberties groups sent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday and shared with The Washington Post.

Two said they were beaten inside the detention facility when they initially declined to be transported to the border.

The letter draws on interviews the American Civil Liberties Union and other nonprofit groups conducted last month with 45 detainees at ICE’s makeshift Fort Bliss detention camp in El Paso. It claims the Trump administration tried to illegally coerce many of these people into leaving the United States for a country where they are

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