A lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of immigrants deported by the Trump administration to Ghana said they were held in "straightjackets" and shackled for 16 hours.

The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleged that the plaintiffs had been held for days in "squalid conditions" in an open-air detention facility.

Newsweek reached out to the Department of Homeland Security , U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), and the group behind the suit, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, for comment via email Friday afternoon.

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The filing is the latest in a string of legal challenges to the way the Trump administration has carried out its immigration policies, including attempts to block removals to countries immigrants are not cit

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