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Héctor Ríos Morales

Cuban Detainees Report Beatings and Abuse After Refusing Deportation to Mexico, Human Rights Watchdog Says

According to testimony from detainees at the Texas' Fort Bliss detention center, dozens of detainees were allegedly driven to the Mexican border and pressured by masked officials to cross or face imprisonment and beatings. (Credit: Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

An immigration detention center in Texas is under scrutiny after a letter detailed testimony from four Cuban immigrants at the Fort Bliss detention camp in El Paso, who said immigration authorities abused them and tried to coerce them into leaving the United States by warning they'd be beaten if they refused.

According to a letter shared with the American Civil Liberties Union, the four men were among dozens of detainees who were allegedly driven to the Mexican border and pressured by masked officials to cross or face imprisonment and beatings.

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