Immigrants Say They Were Pressured Into Unneeded Surgeries
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Source: New York Times
The Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga., drew national attention this month after a nurse, Dawn Wooten, filed a whistle-blower complaint claiming that detainees had told her they had had their uteruses removed without their full understanding or consent.
Since then, both ICE and the hospital in Irwin County have released data that show that two full hysterectomies have been performed on women detained at Irwin in the past three years. But firsthand accounts are now emerging from detainees, including Ms. Dowe, who underwent other invasive gynecological procedures that they did not fully understand and, in some cases, may not have been medically necessary.
It was the Irwin County center’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic that inspired Ms. Wooten, the nurse whose whistle-blower complaint was first reported by The Intercept, to come forward about another issue that troubled her: Dr. Amin’s surgeries. She said in an interview that she had for years noticed that an inordinate number of women were being referred to Dr. Amin. She said she would hear reports that they had undergone surgeries but that they had no idea why the surgeries were performed.
Data from ICE inspection reports show that the center, which is operated by a private prison company, Lasalle Corrections, refers more than 1,000 detainees a year for outside medical care, far more than most other immigration detention centers of the same size. It is not clear how many of these referrals are for gynecological care. Lasalle Corrections did not respond to requests for comment.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/immigrants-hysterectomies-gynecology-irwin-county-ICE.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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These women OBVIOUSLY were not fit to be mothers (in his pathetic, warped mind), after all they were "illegal" immigrants of the wrong color.
What better way to further the cause than to make these women unable to have any further children, and THEN send them back to their countries that they were trying to escape from, as a warning, SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU TRY TO COME TO AMERICA? A judgement that is totally selective, based only on color.
Yet look at this doctor's name. Dr. Mahendra Amin. Sure doesn't look like an AMERICAN name to me. 
This shit is exactly what the turd and the racist haters want. Never mind that in every case, at the most, two or three generations back their ancestors were more than likely immigrants. The turd's MOTHER was an immigrant. Too bad someone didn't declare HER unfit to have children.
This is the ugly underbelly of America. All you have to do is scratch the surface, and this ooze comes seeping out.
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