Democracy Dies in DarknessImmigrationThe advocacy group says the attempted “third country” deportations are part of a pattern of mistreatment of migrants held at Texas’s Fort Bliss, the nation’s largest ICE detention center.December 8, 2025Protesters oppose mass deportations in August outside Fort Bliss, the U.S. Army base in Texas where a new immigration detention facility has been set up. (Paul Ratje/Reuters)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 that civil liberties groups sent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday and shared with The Washington Post.