Did ICE have mass hysterectomies of immigrant women done?

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A whistleblower who submitted a complaint to the Inspector-General alleges that at a Georgia facility, they've been sending immigrant women to a doctor who performed hysterectomies on them without their knowledge or consent:

Disturbing. Hopefully this isn't true. There is historical precedent in the United States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_American_women

they're not even going to get a slap on the wrist...

In the past, liberals were accused of hyperbole for calling Trump and his administration Nazis. If this is true, hyperbole has just turned into truth.

I would like an apology from the people who told me I was acting in poor taste for comparing Trump's GOP cult to the Nazi Party now please.

https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/09/15/de ... n-georgia/

I would like an apology from the people who told me I was being both stupid and ignorant for claiming that the current administration is a misogynistic and racist one.

Time to wait patiently for people to inevitably defend ICE regardless of what they do.
Because there are some who seem to think that if brown people break the law the government should be able to do whatever it wants to them to discourage lawbreaking.

This is just a continuation of the long American tradition of sterilizing undesirables.

Sign here to hold them accountable.(hopefully)
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeact ... 3043154459

I am taking a wild guess but this has to do with preventing these women from getting pregnant in the US to claim residency?

Is this really a thing?

Seems to be.
Sign here.
https://abolishicenow.org/?source=em202 ... immigrants

ASAN joined a number of organizations in petitioning the government to investigate and stop this practice.

“ September 24, 2020

The Honorable Chad F. Wolf
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528

Kenneth Cuccinelli
Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Department of Homeland Security
20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20529

The Honorable Joseph V. Cuffari
Inspector General
Department of Homeland Security
245 Murray Lane, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20528-0305

Dear Acting Secretary Wolf, Senior Official Cuccinelli, and Inspector Cuffari,

The undersigned disability organizations, in solidarity with immigrant and reproductive health rights and justice organizations, write to express our unified outrage at the recent report on the alarming rate of non-consensual hysterectomies performed on immigrant women in custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. We are appalled by the fundamental human rights violations these women have endured and see ICE’s actions at the Irwin County Detention Center as part of a long racist, sexist, and ableist history in this country.

We demand that the Trump Administration immediately halt the practice of non-consensual hysterectomies and any other non-consensual procedures in ICE detention centers. We are grateful that the Department of Homeland Security has already launched investigations into the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. We urge that these investigations be both thorough and transparent.

While this news is horrific, it is not surprising given the long and sordid history of forced sterilizations in the United States. At the beginning of our nation, Black women were sterilized to control the population of enslaved Africans. More recently, the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970 made it possible for physicians associated with the Indian Health Service to sterilize an estimated 25% of Native American Women of child-bearing age. Between the 1920s and the 1950s California initiated an aggressive forced sterilization program that targeted Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American women. In yet another example, as many as 70,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized during the 20th century due to the Buck v. Bell Supreme Court decision of 1927, a decision which continues to make forced sterilization of disabled people completely legal today, often in the form of guardian-imposed sterilization. These are just a few of the all too numerous examples of eugenic practices in the history of the United States, devaluing our bodies, lives, and futures as women, people of color, immigrants, and disabled people.

This is not a matter of one bad doctor — this is precisely the pattern of abuse to be expected from our inhumane immigration detention system, reflecting the same eugenic practices, dehumanization, and familiar structures of violence we see in institutionalization and mass incarceration. These horrific acts are a violation of fundamental human rights, and they are also the inevitable outcomes of an immigration system that perpetuates human rights abuses, medical abuse and neglect, sexual assault, and mass incarceration. The system cannot be fixed. It must be dismantled.

Sincerely,

American Association of People with Disabilities
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Hispanic Federation
National Women’s Law Center

In Solidarity:

Access Living
Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
Barth Syndrome Foundation
CAC Trailblazers
Center for Public Representation
Chicagoland Autism Connection Trailblazers

IMPACT CIL
Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants
Latino Caucus for Public Health- APHA
Little People of America
Lupus and Allied Diseases Association, Inc.
Mucolipidosis Type IV Foundation
National Alliance for Hispanic Health
National Association of the Deaf
National Council on Independent Living
National Infusion Center Association (NICA)
Nikkei Uprising
Not Dead Yet
Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation
Progress Center for Independent Living
PXE International
Senior and Disability Action
SILC of Illinois
The Advocacy Institute
The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation
The HANA Center
United Spinal Association
University of Florida; Academics for Black Survival and Wellness
University YMCA - New American Welcome Center
Ventura County Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE-V
Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health - Illinois
Creating Connections PC
Dia de la Mujer Latina
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)
Genetic Alliance
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)
Genetic Alliance
IMPACT CIL
Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants
Latino Caucus for Public Health- APHA
Little People of America
Lupus and Allied Diseases Association, Inc.
Mucolipidosis Type IV Foundation
National Alliance for Hispanic Health
National Association of the Deaf
National Council on Independent Living
National Infusion Center Association (NICA)
Nikkei Uprising
Not Dead Yet
Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation
Progress Center for Independent Living
PXE International
Senior and Disability Action
SILC of Illinois
The Advocacy Institute
The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation
The HANA Center
United Spinal Association
University of Florida; Academics for Black Survival and Wellness
University YMCA - New American Welcome Center
Ventura County Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE-VC)“