“I woke up and I was alone, and I was in pain and everyone spoke English so I could not ask any questions,” Yuridia said. Three days later, still sore and recovering, she was deported.

A whistleblower accused a doctor of performing mass hysterectomies on ICE-detained women who didn’t need them. The Times investigated, and while the story isn’t quite that, it’s still outrageous: unnecessary gynecological procedures paid for by ICE.

Yikes, this @itscaitlinhd piece, on a gynecologist with a history of alleged Medicare fraud apparently performing unnecessary surgical procedures on ICE detainees.

"The cases were reviewed by five gynecologists — four of them board-certified... — who found that Dr. Amin consistently overstated the size or risks associated with cysts or masses attached to his patients’ reproductive organs"

Medical records from a Georgia ICE jail show women underwent unneeded and invasive gynecological surgeries that they didn't understand. Detained women had complained about the care for years. Latest with @itscaitlinhd and @mirjordan

Further reporting on the ICE hysterectomies reveals an acute problem: a doctor performing invasive and unnecessary surgeries (possibly to enrich himself) And a chronic problem: Neglect of women in custody, no translators, no access to advocates

NYT reports that #Irwin County Detention Center (privately run by Lasalle Corrections), refers 1,000+ detainees a year "for outside medical care, far more than most other ICE detention centers of the same size." nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/… It is time to #ShutDownIrwin #AbolishICE!

Our government is doing terrible things to women of color, and the motivation appears to be money, via @NYTimes

Immigrants detained at an US ICE-contracted center in Georgia said they had invasive gynecology procedures that they later learned might have been unnecessary nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/… via @itscaitlinhd et al @susan_bewley

If true, these allegations of lack of informed consent and performing sterilizing procedures on vulnerable @ICEgov detainees is absolutely horrifying and enormously unethical: nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/… #protectthepatient