Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility

[Nevilledog]

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‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/


Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting “jarring medical neglect” within the facility, including a refusal to test detainees for the novel coronavirus and an exorbitant rate of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women.

The nurse, Dawn Wooten, was employed at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, which is operated by LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company. The complaint was filed with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by advocacy groups Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network.

Multiple women came forward to tell Project South about what they perceived to be the inordinate rate at which women in ICDC were subjected to hysterectomies – a surgical operation in which all or part of the uterus is removed. Additionally, many of the immigrant women who underwent the procedure were reportedly “confused” when asked to explain why they had the surgery, with one detainee likening their treatment to prisoners in concentration camps.

“Recently, a detained immigrant told Project South that she talked to five different women detained at ICDC between October and December 2019 who had a hysterectomy done,” the complaint stated. “When she talked to them about the surgery, the women ‘reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.’ The woman told Project South that it was as though the women were ‘trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK.’”

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What have we become? I just can't anymore.

[IcyPeas]

1. who are the doctors that are doing this??????

[2naSalit]

17. One of the first question to ask for certain.

[liberalla]

25. Isn't Stephen Miller deeply involved in this immigration area and policy?

This would be right up his alley, right?
OMG. This turns my stomach...

[lagomorph777]

19. Mengele

[2naSalit]

26. Steven Mengele Miller.

[niyad]

37. Either the same, or related to, the complicit medical assholes who said water boarding was okay..

[uponit7771]

40. right ?!

[LakeArenal]

2. Dear god. Please commence smiting.

[ARPad95]

3. WTF?!?!? Criminally insane assholes!

[superpatriotman]

4. Paging Dr. Mengele

Dr. Mengele to the white house courtesy phone

[C_U_L8R]

5. Heinius. But need more reporting. Just seeing one unfamiliar source.

[BComplex]

6. Rachel Maddow needs to be told about this if she hasn't heard about it.

Holy shit! Would something like this piss off both Maddow and Joy Reid, and Nicole Wallace, for that matter?

I just sit here shaking my head. No. This can't be happening. This is truly an international crime. No wonder trump is slamming the ICC.

[Lars39]

7. Crimes against humanity

[shanti]

8. OMG

I retweeted this to Rachel Maddow. This is horrifying.

[DTomlinson]

9. Abolish ICE.

[BComplex]

11. Absolutely. Abolish the entire Homeland Security nazi state, too. The Patriot Act needs to be

repealed...all of it needs to go.

And reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, and we might be able to get our country back again.

[2naSalit]

27. +1

[crickets]

33. +1000000

[Greybnk48]

10. The pro-life Republicans in action, again. n/t

[getagrip_already]

29. birth control in it's ultimate form... an almost final solution? n/t

[onetexan]

12. OMG

[Wounded Bear]

13. If true, this is nothing short of eugenics and ethnic cleansing...

[uponit7771]

43. +1

[I_UndergroundPanther]

14. Get rid of all

Republicans from government. Purge them because of thier fascist beliefs,it's incompatible with democracy and the Constitution.

Who gives a shit about the opinions,fears and reactions of fucking brain dead syncophants, culties and magats.

We can no longer afford to pretend these repukes have any redeeming features . They don't obey the law,neither should we than,round up the republicans and put them in a camp because they are all traitors and dangerous to humanity.

[JHB]

15. /WE/ haven't become something. /Republicans/ let an old and ugly beast out of its pen

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This is eugenics and Tuskegee experiments type stuff. The things Hitler took inspiration from and expanded upon.

Ugly beasts that had been driven into a cave and contained. Republicans were just swell with setting it loose again. Just as they were with torture.

Don't think it's "Trumpism."

[malaise]

34. +1,000

Ask the people of Central America as well

[Solly Mack]

16. A nation that allows torture, and America did allow it, will do anything.

Then there's the ugly history of eugenics and forced sterilization in America.

Telling yourself you're better than that doesn't make you better than that. Just gives you the feel-good moment you need to mitigate what's happening and how you feel about it until the next time.

To be better you actually have to act better. You have to put in the work to get better. That does sometime include putting people in prison regardless of their title.

[2naSalit]

18. +1

[mshasta]

20. Crimes to humanity

America I don’t recognize you

[GoCubsGo]

21. WHAT. THE. FUCK????

[Runningdawg]

22. You know, I wouldn't doubt sterilzations are being carried out. Not for a minute.

But as a retired OR nurse, let me mention that even a hack needs @30 min to cut out a uterus. Burning the tubes, which accomplishes the same thing takes 5 minutes, costs considerably less, can be performed by a med school student and recovery time is days, not weeks. Also no mention of forced vasectomies? They take even less time and require no general anesthesia, one less person in the loop to testify later. It sure AF requires and investigation by an outside team.

[LuvNewcastle]

39. This makes me think that the goal might have been

something other than preventing pregnancies. Female sterilization would be more important than sterilizing males if the goal is population reduction. Females are more special k than males in nature and society. That's because women's productivity is very limited and men's is practically endless. Killing several men can be made up for by increasing the burden on one man. Killing several women can cause a real strain on a group's population.

So you would want to focus on taking out the women if committing a genocide, but to be most effective, you would want to take them out quickly and quietly. That make burning tubes your best option. A hysterectomy, as you have explained, would best be avoided. A hysterectomy would be done if, however, other procedures had been done on the uterus or the ovaries and those tissues would need to be taken out in order to remove evidence.

[Habibi]

51. I can't even process what the two of you are saying.

This is simply horrifying.

[FakeNoose]

23. Defund ICE immediately

This needs to cease today.

The detained immigrants get no medical care for themselves or their children, very little in the way of food, clothing or shelter. But they get STERILIZED without their knowledge or assent? What the actual fuck?

[eleny]

24. Oh, Jesus

[Ilsa]

28. How old are these women? Are they in their childbearing years?

What diagnostic tests were run to determine that hysterectomies were necessary? Who are the doctors involved in this government project? Were they OB/GYNs? Were they told that it was irreversible?

[benld74]

30. CEO - Executive Director - Rodney Cooper

[WhiskeyGrinder]

31. Certainly not unprecedented in this nation's history.

Wait 'til you hear about how incarcerated people are offered time off their sentences for sterilization.

[Disaffected]

32. If verified,

more crimes against humanity.

[ancianita]

35. THIS, when verified, should be at the top of 100 reasons why DHS MUST be dismantled.

[uponit7771]

46. +1

[niyad]

36. Paging dr. mengele. Although. .there was plenty of this going on in this country. Sadly, this is not

new here.

[Farmergene]

38. Forced sterilization

To prevent chain migration?

1) were these women promised assylum if they did this?

2) was there even concent? Informed or otherwise?

[uponit7771]

42. Its text book genocide UN defined article 2 part e

[uponit7771]

41. "Multiple women came forward" This is some Nazi shit

[halobeam]

44. Certainly right, it's some Nazi shit!

I love my folks, but I'm glad they aren't alive to see what is happening. I love my kids, and I'm sick to my stomach for them, their future.

[MustLoveBeagles]

47. +1

My maternal grandparents came to this country to escape this crap.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

50. Nazis learned it from us and what we did to enslaved people and Native people.

[MustLoveBeagles]

45. This is monstrous

As some who miscarried a pregnancy in my 20's and then tried unsuccessfully for years to have a baby this breaks my heart.

[nolabear]

48. I feel like throwing up. We are monsters. America is not getting better.

For all we’ve done I’ve always hoped we were trying to get better. I’ve clung to it. But we’re always returning to sheer monstrosity.

[DFW]

49. And then these people have the gall to go to rallies and call themselves "pro-life."

Auschwitz on the Rio Grande. "Frauen links zur Sterilisation, bitte!"

[kentuck]

52. Terrifying!

There's gotta be more to the story?

[superpatriotman]

53. Kick

Because this should be on the first age

[colsohlibgal]

54. Stunning

Not sure why anyone would be surprised at this News. History tends to repeat itself and it sure is now.

Wow just wow. It is sick and when Biden wins he can’t just move on. He needs his own Nuremberg Trials. We cannot just move on this time.

Evil pure evil.