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SouthernCal_Dem

(852 posts)
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 02:28 PM Sep 2020

Whistleblower: The Trump Administration has been performing medical experiments on ICE detainees

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

JERRY LAMBE
Sep 14th, 2020, 12:58 pm


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.

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“When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies,” the detainee said.


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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/
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Whistleblower: The Trump Administration has been performing medical experiments on ICE detainees (Original Post) SouthernCal_Dem Sep 2020 OP
Who's Trump's Dr. Mengele? The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #1
Probably that perv who was tracking women's periods back in the day. Sick fucks. ResistantAmerican17 Sep 2020 #32
...and when will we have Nuremberg trials? Lucky Luciano Sep 2020 #34
Soon, I hope. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #40
Probably Steve Miller KS Toronado Sep 2020 #44
Only ONE whistleblower? superpatriotman Sep 2020 #2
Agree, there would have to many people involved DeminPennswoods Sep 2020 #23
Forced sterilization???? WTF alwaysinasnit Sep 2020 #3
Jeezus sure sounds like it soothsayer Sep 2020 #6
And you know why treestar Sep 2020 #17
It's the Pro Life party after all... AZ8theist Sep 2020 #20
OMG BeckyDem Sep 2020 #4
When he is gone we will find mass graves and evidence of sex trafficked kids kimbutgar Sep 2020 #5
+++++++++++++++++++++!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2naSalit Sep 2020 #8
They believe in "Young Blood" fixing everything in the older bodies. LiberalArkie Sep 2020 #48
Pete Thiel is into this DBoon Sep 2020 #58
Yep a lot of professionals are. Seems there wasn't enough 18 year olds donating though. LiberalArkie Sep 2020 #61
I've been saying this for over 2 years, there's little difference between MAGA and Nazis uponit7771 Sep 2020 #50
oh, sweet jeezus..no. no. no. no. stillcool Sep 2020 #7
So -45 really is... 2naSalit Sep 2020 #9
Kicking for exposure. This is an abomination. Tanuki Sep 2020 #10
Two words: Independent Prosecutor (for Nuremberg style tribunals) Fiendish Thingy Sep 2020 #11
I SO hope this is where Kamala Harris has a voice in things! BComplex Sep 2020 #57
Woha,Steve Miller and his Spouse best head to Russia ASAP Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #12
Indeed it is. /nt bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #18
At which point, our own prisons will not be an acceptable answer... Volaris Sep 2020 #27
Once again,will our Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #29
To be determined. But if even close to true, this is a biggie I dont think they will have a choice. Volaris Sep 2020 #30
If proven true, Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #31
Strange twist on pro-life, isn't it? Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #13
It just keeps getting worse and worse Ferrets are Cool Sep 2020 #14
It's unbelievable how many people go along with orders like this (if found to be true). C Moon Sep 2020 #15
Never a doubt bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #16
Bad to worse. It keeps me awake at night. n/t Paper Roses Sep 2020 #19
Perhaps this is the final stake in the heart of the beast. Doremus Sep 2020 #21
Sounds more like genocide than exprimentation. n/t Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #22
Disgusted and sickened, but unsurprised, KNR. niyad Sep 2020 #24
I know we're not supposed to compare anybody to Nazis, but.... renate Sep 2020 #25
Why shouldn't we do that when they are Nazis? obamanut2012 Sep 2020 #45
They got their ideas from US loyalsister Sep 2020 #59
Oh my god. Every time you think they've found the bottom crickets Sep 2020 #26
Jesus Christ! And I mean that with all the reverence I can muster RestoreAmerica2020 Sep 2020 #28
This isn't "like a concentration camp"; this IS a concentration camp, fits the definition Alex4Martinez Sep 2020 #33
Oh my God karin_sj Sep 2020 #35
Remember when people were outraged over calls to abolish ICE? melman Sep 2020 #36
we're turning into fucking nazis. barbtries Sep 2020 #37
The President's sister called them Concentration Camps malaise Sep 2020 #38
+1, she's correct and Trump has signed off on text book genocide article 2 part e uponit7771 Sep 2020 #51
HOLY FUCK-- they really are Nazis LymphocyteLover Sep 2020 #39
The sum of all fears. ffr Sep 2020 #41
Goddamned Nazi's rickyhall Sep 2020 #42
Every morning I brace myself moonscape Sep 2020 #43
While we're inundated with accusations of being socialists and communists Mr. Ected Sep 2020 #46
This is disgusting. bluescribbler Sep 2020 #47
Mass graves are next, I've said this from the second I heard about the concentration camps uponit7771 Sep 2020 #49
Whistleblower: The Trump Administration has been performing medical experiments on ICE detainees FelineOverlord Sep 2020 #52
Ew, I was just reading about Jeffrey Dahmer last night. BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #53
OMG I hate these people so much. Disgusting racists AllyCat Sep 2020 #54
Is this a legit source? I am not familiar with it, and want to be sure before I share. nt Lisa0825 Sep 2020 #55
If this is true Squidly Sep 2020 #56
It's been confirmed by a few sources and Dan Rather is talking about it. loyalsister Sep 2020 #60

kimbutgar

(21,103 posts)
5. When he is gone we will find mass graves and evidence of sex trafficked kids
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 02:36 PM
Sep 2020

Qanon is just a distraction for what MF45’s administration is carrying out. I hope it shocks his supporters to the core when they find out kids were sex trafficked.

Last June I was flying back home from Phoenix and this woman had these 3 little girls that she was bringing to the Bay Area. The girls were twins about 4 years and an older girl about 9. They all had this scared looks on their faces and clutching brand new dolls. We were boarding and they were ahead of me and ended up sitting in First class. They did not speak English but I said something to them in Spanish and they acknowledged me. I waited in the baggage claim area to see them again but it really bothered me that they were in obvious distress. to this day I think of those little girls and wonder if they were being sex trafficked.

LiberalArkie

(15,705 posts)
61. Yep a lot of professionals are. Seems there wasn't enough 18 year olds donating though.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 04:28 PM
Sep 2020

If they just had a source where they could get a lot from even younger people.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,568 posts)
11. Two words: Independent Prosecutor (for Nuremberg style tribunals)
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:04 PM
Sep 2020

Congress must pass, and Biden must sign, legislation restoring the Independent Prosecutor law.

I want everyone down to the caterer at the ICE Christmas party investigated.

BComplex

(8,029 posts)
57. I SO hope this is where Kamala Harris has a voice in things!
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 12:33 AM
Sep 2020

Whoever Joe appoints as Atty General, we need to have prosecutions for this!

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
12. Woha,Steve Miller and his Spouse best head to Russia ASAP
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:14 PM
Sep 2020

if this becomes fact.

Holy Hanna,this is a major crime against Humanity.

Volaris

(10,269 posts)
27. At which point, our own prisons will not be an acceptable answer...
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:48 PM
Sep 2020

This will REQUIRE us, as a nation with any credibility left at all, to turn his fatass over to the Hague.

Volaris

(10,269 posts)
30. To be determined. But if even close to true, this is a biggie I dont think they will have a choice.
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:00 PM
Sep 2020

I fully expect Kalie to say nah, it's all fake news, and then when proven wrong about that she'll blame the private contractor, who will then blame the doctor as an individual, who will turn around and blame the paperwork bureaucracy and all the 'red tape' that things just get lost in,

And then the White House will accuse the Democratic Party of being responsible with some bullshit about how if they had helped us build the wall, all of this could have been avoided.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
31. If proven true,
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:07 PM
Sep 2020

it will be the total end to anything Trump Crime Family related.

Our Family Doctor back in the Forties and Fifties was one of the first Medics to enter the Camps in Eourpe. Still recall him telling any one who would listen, as well as holding a Village general assembly at our Village meeting Hall, about the Horrors he witnessed as well as the Experiments his group uncovered.

C Moon

(12,212 posts)
15. It's unbelievable how many people go along with orders like this (if found to be true).
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:23 PM
Sep 2020

You'd think they would be leaving in hordes to get away from crimes like this.

renate

(13,776 posts)
25. I know we're not supposed to compare anybody to Nazis, but....
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:45 PM
Sep 2020

In what way is this not like what the Nazis did?

This is PURE EVIL.

crickets

(25,959 posts)
26. Oh my god. Every time you think they've found the bottom
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:46 PM
Sep 2020

there is a new level of hell uncovered. There is NO WAY we are walking away from any of this without mass investigations and trials. And I'm kinda getting past the 'lock them up' level of angry and horrified.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
28. Jesus Christ! And I mean that with all the reverence I can muster
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:49 PM
Sep 2020

..its not trump admin, or ice or evil ghouls like steve millers--orders come from trump! This, the 200,000 lives, lost from covid 19, the 7 dead refugee children [that we know of ] continued abuses that they and their families continue to be subjected to-- it's all on trump, under his watch; his cruelty has no boundaries.

Recently read that 2000 unaccompanied refugee children were unaccounted for--whats happened to them? [Could be wrong on # on edit, will provide source. ]

Question: Just how does one file a complaint on odioustrump for human rights violation, crimes against humanity with the Hague court?

Alex4Martinez

(2,193 posts)
33. This isn't "like a concentration camp"; this IS a concentration camp, fits the definition
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:14 PM
Sep 2020

And the forced sterilization, probably under the influence of pharmaceuticals, is Nazi level activity.

Whoa.

Fuck.

karin_sj

(808 posts)
35. Oh my God
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:18 PM
Sep 2020

This is beyond horrendous. Unfortunately, it's not hard to believe though. This sickens me. WTF is going on and as someone else said, quite a few people, including doctors and medical staff have to be in on this.

I wonder if they're doing other kinds of "tests" on these helpless, imprisoned people. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if they were trying out different unapproved coronavirus treatments and vaccine trials on them. I really am at a loss for words.

malaise

(268,844 posts)
38. The President's sister called them Concentration Camps
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:25 PM
Sep 2020

Last edited Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:12 PM - Edit history (1)

She was a fucking Federal Judge and the media should have raised her comments with the judicial branch.

They are Concentration Camps - these are crimes against humanity and a lot of people should be heading to prison

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
43. Every morning I brace myself
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:37 PM
Sep 2020

before logging in here because I know there will be new horrors revealed, the only question is what will they be.

This is horrifying. The rate at which we are assaulted with revelations is spirit-crushing.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
46. While we're inundated with accusations of being socialists and communists
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:50 PM
Sep 2020

The real and inherent danger to our democratic republic is also a Russian front masquerading as a major national political party.

Not only should people go to jail over this - a LOT of people, I would add - the use of capital punishment should certainly be on the table. Never Again.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
60. It's been confirmed by a few sources and Dan Rather is talking about it.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 01:46 PM
Sep 2020

It's real and this is a US thing. Hitler got it from US.

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