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Getty: “Immigrant rights protesters participate in a demonstration to draw attention to tech companies involvement in the immigration enforcement system on October 11, 2019 in New York City.” Top House Democrats who on Saturday inspected the immigration prison where women who were horrifically operated on without their consent have been detained called the Georgia facility “a horror show,” and said that officials forbade them from bringing in their own phones to record personal testimonies from detainees. Legislators shared everything they learned from the women immediately following the visit anyway. “They don’t want the public to hear their pain, happening at hands of the US government,” California Rep. Nanette Barragán tweeted . “Women at Irwin County detention described a disturbing pattern that many who visited a doctor for Gyno/OBGYN issues came back worse. One lady got so bad her belly turned blue. Women cried as they talked about her pain.” Barragán said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released her just days before legislators arrived to conduct their oversight. Despite the prison’s attempt to whitewash over its abuses, Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and House Judiciary Committee (HJC) members heard firsthand accounts from detained women, who described forced procedures and threats of […]
