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The 10 immigration detention centers communities are calling on the Biden administration to close down represent every single detention center where immigrants needlessly suffer. This list represents a beginning to dismantling ICE detention, a #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages.
The Adelanto Detention Center’s record is rife with abuse. This month, Martin Vargas tragically died, 3 days after ICE released him from the CA facility after he suffered from a stroke & COVID-19 inside.
#FirstTen #CommunitiesNotCages latimes.com/california/sto…
#FirstTen #CommunitiesNotCages latimes.com/california/sto…
Why #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages is calling to #ShutDownAdelanto:
7 people have died at Adelanto since it opened. Just last yr, people reported that GEO Group used a toxic chemical disinfectant inside the facility, causing people to develop bloody noses, burning eyes
7 people have died at Adelanto since it opened. Just last yr, people reported that GEO Group used a toxic chemical disinfectant inside the facility, causing people to develop bloody noses, burning eyes
Today, communities across the country and #CommunitiesNotCages campaign members took direct action to demand the Biden administration shut down the #FirstTen detention centers. Read and RT this thread to see the powerful banner drops and actions across the country. 👇 
Today, we are sharing a fundraiser for Wendy Dowe, a fierce advocate & survivor of abuse at Irwin County Detention Center, organized by our partners at @GaDetWatch & @familiesfreedom:
bit.ly/DonateToDowe
#ShutDownIrwin #AbolishICE #RepairTheHarm
bit.ly/DonateToDowe
#ShutDownIrwin #AbolishICE #RepairTheHarm
Project South had the honor of supporting @familiesfreedom by visiting & supporting Wendy in 2019 while she was detained at Irwin. Wendy bravely spoken out about the trauma & abuse she suffered while detained by ICE at Irwin.
Please take a few minutes to learn from Wendy below:
democracynow.org/2020/12/28/irw…
Black Feminist Voices Roundtable on the Legacies of Forced Sterilization & Resistance: vimeo.com/480034664?eTyp…
Press Conference w/ Reps Adriano Espaillat & Hank Johnson: facebook.com/RepEspaillat/v…
democracynow.org/2020/12/28/irw…
Black Feminist Voices Roundtable on the Legacies of Forced Sterilization & Resistance: vimeo.com/480034664?eTyp…
Press Conference w/ Reps Adriano Espaillat & Hank Johnson: facebook.com/RepEspaillat/v…
BREAKING: The final known survivor of gynecological abuse at the Irwin County Detention Center secured her freedom yesterday.
She was the last of dozens of identified survivors of medical abuse & neglect while detained at Irwin.
#ShutDownIrwin
She was the last of dozens of identified survivors of medical abuse & neglect while detained at Irwin.
#ShutDownIrwin
The final release comes after the filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus & class action lawsuit against ICE, the prison corporation LaSalle, Dr. Amin, as well as the then-director of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, and other officials. #ShutDownIrwin
We are thrilled about freedom of women who suffered so much while detained at Irwin. This is only the first step in the path towards justice. Survivors of medical abuse must receive redress for the harm they suffered. We won't rest until this horrid facility is shut down!
BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit last night on behalf of women who have faced medical abuse at Irwin
Along with @NIPNLG @ddreyer @ColumbiaLaw Immigrants' Rights Clinic & others
#ShutDownIrwin
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Along with @NIPNLG @ddreyer @ColumbiaLaw Immigrants' Rights Clinic & others
#ShutDownIrwin
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We are seeking an immediate end to the egregious retaliation against the women who spoke out against the abuse, release of the women who have suffered medical abuse, and compensation for the harms that the survivors suffered. #ShutDownIrwin
It is high time for this facility rife with human rights violations to be shut down and for ICE and LaSalle to be held accountable. #ShutDownIrwin
Immigrants abused by notorious gynecologist call on Georgia medical board to revoke medical license: dailykos.com/story/2020/12/… #ShutDownIrwin
"In declarations, the women depict a grim system in which violations of bodily autonomy and informed consent, unnecessary medical treatments, and rampant medical neglect are commonplace": splcenter.org/presscenter/wo… #ShutDownIrwin
"Attorneys w/SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative supported the women in filing the complaints after months of interviews w/them. Of the women who filed complaints today, three have been deported, one has been released, and six remain detained at ICDC." #ShutDownIrwin
Six weeks ago @ProjectSouth and @GovAcctProj filed a #Whistleblower complaint alleging horrific medical abuses at #ShutDownIrwin
We’ve asked nearly every day:
How many surgeries did ICE pay doctor Amin to perform?
They won’t tell you. Why?
17 Amin patients remain at Irwin
We’ve asked nearly every day:
How many surgeries did ICE pay doctor Amin to perform?
They won’t tell you. Why?
17 Amin patients remain at Irwin
Since the @ProjectSouth report came out, movement orgs like @SoGA_Support @GLAHR_ @GaDetWatch, immigration lawyers coordinated by @AILANational members @ leaders, systemic change & mass rep experts at @ThinkLawLab, & health professionals at @Doc4CampClosure PHR, CVR assembled.
The record these advocates and professionals built assisted @RepJayapal with building a coalition to introduce, debate, and pass #HRes1153. @HispanicCaucus went to #ShutDownIrwin & heard directly from women. @JacksonLeeTX18 intervened to protect and free an Amin surgery survivor.
According to Dr. Amin's lawyer, women in ICE custody at Irwin can't expect to get their medical records of the treatment he gave at his office and the surgery he does at the hospital from the federal agency that's paying for it because it's legally responsible for their med care.
Instead, each of these women should file three separate request forms for these records, Dr. Amin suggests.
Okay.
That's not at all how this works.
But okay.
#ShutDownIrwin
Okay.
That's not at all how this works.
But okay.
#ShutDownIrwin
Here's the thing:
The records say what the records say.
The records say what the records say.
BREAKING: LA Times documents the accounts of 19 mostly Black and Latinx immigrant women who suffered medical abuse while detained at Irwin
#ShutDownIrwin
latimes.com/politics/story…
#ShutDownIrwin
latimes.com/politics/story…
“Both Dr. Amin and the referring detention facility took advantage of the vulnerability of women in detention to pressure them to agree to overly aggressive, inappropriate, and unconsented medical care,” according to the report filed by the medical experts.
“Because I am an immigrant, and I’m Black, that’s why this happened,” one of the women Wendy Dowe said. “No, I am not giving up. I still have hope that I will get some form of justice.”
ICE is still deporting women at ICDC.
These women are witnesses to the DHS-OIG investigation DHS says it’s taking seriously.
#ShutDownIrwin
These women are witnesses to the DHS-OIG investigation DHS says it’s taking seriously.
#ShutDownIrwin
LaSalle has disabled the tablets that allow women to make direct medical requests to ICE.
Guards also revel in telling people they’re retaliating against that the cameras don’t work.
Guards also revel in telling people they’re retaliating against that the cameras don’t work.
And per Dawn Wooten’s statements in the @ProjectSouth report, Medical Officials rip up the paper requests.
After she asked to be deported in June, ICE flew Yenifer from Puerto Rico to the US. Then it warehoused her body at LaSalle’s for-profit immigrant prison in Irwin County, Georgia. She’s been demanding her immediate repatriation for months. No justification exists to detain her.
She literally can’t breathe. When she asked for medical help after passing out, but specifically requested not to be thrown in the medical isolation hole, they made her sign a form in English, likely saying she was refusing care (we don’t know because they keep refusing to say).
Yenifer and the women locked up and neglected for profit inside ICDC ask no favor for their sex.
All they ask of this government is that it take its knee off their necks.
Follow @SomosSouth @GaDetWatch @ProjectSouth and @GLAHR_ and call you your MOC to #ShutDownIrwin
All they ask of this government is that it take its knee off their necks.
Follow @SomosSouth @GaDetWatch @ProjectSouth and @GLAHR_ and call you your MOC to #ShutDownIrwin
House passes @RepJayapal's resolution condemning forced medical procedures conducted on immigrant women: jayapal.house.gov/2020/10/02/hou…
.@RepSylviaGarcia: "What these women were subjected to is assault, and we must all recognize it as such." #ShutDownIrwin
From @RepJayapal's statement: "The resolution passed less than one week after members of the @HouseJudiciary and @HispanicCaucus led a Congressional Delegation to the Irwin County Detention Center. It was there that they heard firsthand from numerous women ..." #ShutDownIrwin
It's not "He Said/She Said".
It's "He Said/16 Women and four Board-Certified Gynecologists, including the head of @acog, Said".
This piece by @itscaitlinhd @SethFW & @mirjordan on the claims in the @ProjectSouth @GovAcctProj
#Whistleblower complaint establishes the pattern
It's "He Said/16 Women and four Board-Certified Gynecologists, including the head of @acog, Said".
This piece by @itscaitlinhd @SethFW & @mirjordan on the claims in the @ProjectSouth @GovAcctProj
#Whistleblower complaint establishes the pattern
Virtually every major news outlet in the Western Hemisphere has reached out to lawyers and organizations who've been describing these allegations since the @ProjectSouth report broke.
Not a single person I know has heard from ICE, IHSC, DHS-OIG, or any other investigator.
Not a single person I know has heard from ICE, IHSC, DHS-OIG, or any other investigator.
What is more, Dr. Rivera REFUSES to say how many surgeries IHSC approved for Dr. Amin, how many depo provera shots IHSC paid him to give immigrant women, or how many detained people at #ShutDownIrwin have not receive care because of the high return of gyn referrals.
Silence.
Silence.
Leading up to the @HispanicCaucus @HouseJudiciary visit to #ShutDownIrwin, we asked the women inside for their most urgent demand to members like @RepJayapal @RepBarragan @JacksonLeeTX18 and @JoaquinCastrotx.
The answer? Masks & underwear. They're wearing used, stained panties.
The answer? Masks & underwear. They're wearing used, stained panties.
The day before the visit to #ShutDownIrwin by @RepJayapal @RepBarragan @RepJimmyGomez @RepRaulRuizMD @RepHankJohnson @RepLouCorrea @RepSylviaGarcia & others, LaSalle gave women new, used underwear. No masks. They've been constructing them out of socks to prevent #COVID19 spread
In the cruelest twist, LaSalle added new underwear to the commissary purchase list. Women bought it. But the underwear never came, and the purchases were cancelled.
Upside? Co-Del succeeded in getting LaSalle to replace the shower curtains and clean (some of) the mold.
Upside? Co-Del succeeded in getting LaSalle to replace the shower curtains and clean (some of) the mold.
THREAD:
These are just some of the living nightmares @ProjectSouth @GLAHR_ @SomosSouth @GaDetWatch and lawyers on the ground have documented:
Finding out you’ve been brought in handcuffs to a gynecologist after complaining for months about a sore rib. #ShutDownIrwin /1
These are just some of the living nightmares @ProjectSouth @GLAHR_ @SomosSouth @GaDetWatch and lawyers on the ground have documented:
Finding out you’ve been brought in handcuffs to a gynecologist after complaining for months about a sore rib. #ShutDownIrwin /1
Being unhandcuffed long enough to strip before the doctor walks in and, frequently without permission or warning, inserts an unlubricated transvaginal ultrasound inside your body as someone looks on. If you’re lucky, the LaSalle guard was nice enough to let you keep cuffs off. /2
Bleeding vaginally for days after receiving a medically unnecessary shot of Depo Provera. /3
There's a lot of talk around the forced hysterectomies at Irwin County ICE Detention Center.
This is what we know:
➡️ There are 13 confirmed cases (# may grow)
➡️ We need to #ShutDownIrwin AND #EndDetention
➡️ To get to the root of the problem = #AbolishICE
But there's more 👇🏾
This is what we know:
➡️ There are 13 confirmed cases (# may grow)
➡️ We need to #ShutDownIrwin AND #EndDetention
➡️ To get to the root of the problem = #AbolishICE
But there's more 👇🏾
This isn't a one-time thing. The conditions for something like this to occur have been brewing in ICE detention centers for years.
Black immigrant women have been protesting this all along.
itsgoingdown.org/asylum-seekers…
Black immigrant women have been protesting this all along.
itsgoingdown.org/asylum-seekers…
The whistleblower? Also a Black woman.
Dawn Wooten was a nurse at the facility in Ocilla, Georgia where the hysterectomies took place.
Her bravery to speak up should be uplifted & now that her name is public, she should be protected. #ProtectBlackWomen
Dawn Wooten was a nurse at the facility in Ocilla, Georgia where the hysterectomies took place.
Her bravery to speak up should be uplifted & now that her name is public, she should be protected. #ProtectBlackWomen
HAPPENING NOW (pls share): Press conference from local Georgia orgs reacting to Whistleblower revelations about abuses at Irwin Detention Center facebook.com/GeorgiaDetenti… @ProjectSouth @GaDetWatch @DetentionWatch
#ShutDownIrwin #FreeTheFamilies #FreeThemAll
#ShutDownIrwin #FreeTheFamilies #FreeThemAll
This isn’t an isolated problem. Here’s ICE’s 2017 Office of Detention Oversight audit of Irwin. ice.gov/doclib/foia/od…
Talk about grading on a curve.
Today is the 1st day of "#LatinxHeritageMonth" and we're spending it reminding ppl tht forced sterilization of our community is genocide that has been happening to Black, Brown, & Indigenous ppls since this country's founding. If ur surprised u haven't been paying attention...
From legislation like the Hyde Amendement 2 fake clinics, there has been a long effort in this country to block POC from controlling their bodies. Despite being "pro life" many are just obsessed with controlling our bodies. Case in point:
Every Puerto Rican is a miracle! Have you read abt the tests in PR? AND in 2013 the @CIRonline reported that women incarcerated in a California prison had been illegally sterilized. @oboshealth discussed his history here: ourbodiesourselves.org/book-excerpts/…
