The appalling new whistleblower complaint reporting the use of forced and coerced hysterectomies at Irwin County Detention Center is just the latest chapter in the chronicle of horrors that detained people face in ICE detention.
Let's talk about this.
Let's talk about this.
The whistleblower, who is represented by Project South and the Government Accountability Project, is a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center.
She came forward to report the sheer number of these procedures and that many who had received them didn't appear to understand why.
She came forward to report the sheer number of these procedures and that many who had received them didn't appear to understand why.
Forced sterilizations are a tool of white supremacy that have long been used against indigenous people, immigrants, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, and intersex people in this country.
Irwin County Detention Center — where the reported hysterectomies took place — is run by LaSalle Corrections, a for-profit provider.
Corporations are profiting off the misery and violence caused by ICE detention.
Corporations are profiting off the misery and violence caused by ICE detention.
81% of people in ICE detention are in facilities owned and/or operated by a private provider.
But that number jumps to 91% when you look at facilities opened under Trump.
But that number jumps to 91% when you look at facilities opened under Trump.
In recent months, we've heard reports of:
➖ Systemic sexual abuse by ICE staff
➖ Increased use of force against detained people
➖ Refusal to test people to keep COVID-19 reported numbers artificially low
➖ ICE spreading COVID by unnecessarily transferring detained immigrants
➖ Systemic sexual abuse by ICE staff
➖ Increased use of force against detained people
➖ Refusal to test people to keep COVID-19 reported numbers artificially low
➖ ICE spreading COVID by unnecessarily transferring detained immigrants
In August, reports emerged of a "pattern of sexual assault" at a detention facility in El Paso.
This week, the brave woman who came forward to report the abuse she and others had suffered was deported.
This week, the brave woman who came forward to report the abuse she and others had suffered was deported.
19 people have died in ICE detention since October 2019.
It has been the deadliest fiscal year for ICE detention since 2006.
It has been the deadliest fiscal year for ICE detention since 2006.
People at detention facilities around the country have reported the inability to get even the most basic supplies to keep themselves safe from COVID-19, including masks, sanitization supplies, and access to tests.
The system is designed to silence, ignore, and harm the immigrants it detains.
The atrocities ICE has committed are too great to ignore.
Congress should defund and dismantle ICE.
The atrocities ICE has committed are too great to ignore.
Congress should defund and dismantle ICE.
We will fight to end this cruel, inhumane, and shameful system. We won't stop until it no longer exists.
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