There is an ongoing DHS investigation into the forced hysterectomies performed on ICE detainees; an act of genocide with deep roots in US history. It was confirmed that the Georgia doctor performed two hysterectomies on detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center who allege they did not consent to such an abhorrent procedure. ICE — an extrajudicial organization created in 2003 — has a documented history of human rights violations including 4,556 complaints of sexual abuse of immigrant children in four years, 2,700 child separations, and release of many of 1,500 lost children into trafficking rings. ICE-Gestapo should be abolished and tried at the World Court at The Hague for their rampant heinous crimes against humanity. Could this DHS investigation set a new precedent for oversight over an organization with virtually zero accountability to due process?
Allegations made by the Georgia nurse and multiple migrant women mean the number of women who were medically abused could be much higher. Dawn Wooten alleged that many were taken to a gynecologist whom she labeled the “uterus collector” because of the amount of hysterectomies he performed. Rep. Pramila Jayapal who wrote a letter signed by 173 lawmakers (and opposed by 157 republicans), has stated, “There may be at minimum 17 to 18 women who were subjected to unnecessary medical gynecological procedures from just this one doctor, often without appropriate consent or knowledge, and with the clear intention of sterilization.” Citing from the number of clients of attorneys she had spoken to. Women at the Irwin Detention Center allege that
The 27-page whistleblower complaint filed on Sept. 14, 2020, by Project South on behalf of Dawn Wooten, a practical nurse who works at Irwin County Detention Center deals with medical negligence and a lack of safety measures against COVID-19.
Forced Sterilization – A 100 Year Old Practice
These unchecked racist abuses of power should come as no surprise when the U.S. inspired nazis in the 1930s. Yale Law professor James Q. Whitman’s book Hitler’s American Model examines how the Third Reich gained ideas from the United States’ racial laws.
ICE’s latest human right abuse — forced sterilization — is a practice that began in the U.S. almost 100 years ago when the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 encouraged the sterilization of institutionalized people in Virginia. Forced sterilization was upheld by a 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell which resulted in 70,000 sterilizations of people deemed “unfit” to reproduce, due to mental illness, disability, poverty, or race. This continued well into the 1970s when the U.S. sterilized 70,000 Native American women through the Indian Health Service Act. Then from the 1920s-1950s when the U.S. sterilized thousands of Mexican women for being deemed “immigrants of an undesirable type.” Again in the 1960s and 1970s, Mexican women had having non-consensual sterilizations in order to receive medical care or give birth. In a mass eugenics campaign from the 1930s-1970s, about a third of women in Puerto Rico were sterilized. In 2010, California prisoners were sterilized against their will.
History of ICE Crimes Against Humanit
This all stems from a long-accepted history of physical abuse of detained immigrants under the hands of ICE-Gestapo. The federal government received more than 4,500 complaints in four years about the sexual abuse of immigrant children outlined in this report. And 2,700 caged children as young as 18 months separated from many asylum-seeking parents that Trump has declared “are not innocent” to justify his continuing family-separation “deterrence” policy. Trump described them as, “Phony stories of sadness and grief.” ICE has even sought to destroy it’s paper trail of their abuse against detainees in the past. It’s no surprise WWII-era Germany was inspired by the US in its _________. These draconian, abominable, unlawful acts must be prosecuted if we’re to defeat fascism again, this time, on our own home front.
An ACLU report exhumed migrant abuse cases of children beaten, deprived of food and medical care by federal border agents. ICE-Gestapo left a 4-pound premature baby and her minor mother in an overcrowded and “dirty cell full of sick people, against medical advice.” They’ve violated a 16-year-old girl, ran over a 17-year-old then beat him up, denied a pregnant minor medical attention, preceding a stillbirth.
In response to this ACLU report detailing the countless abuses, the DHS sdismissed the complaints of child abuse as “baseless allegations.” In response to these institutional crimes against humanity, the White House called them “fake news.” Yet the allegations which “span multiple years..states..different backgrounds.
Furthermore, 97.2% of ICE’s deportations are of Latinos, despite the number of illegal immigrants being as follows: 1.6 million Central Americans, 1.5 million Asians, 0.6 million South Americans, and 0.5 Europeans/Canadians. Central America (1.6) and Asia (1.5) have similar numbers of illegal immigrants, and deportations are 0.5% for Asia (China, India, Philippines, South Korea, etc.)
It’s also not about the economic status of immigrant populations — poorer Asian and European countries are ignored. Populations of immigrants: China: 2,420,000, Philippines: 2,080,000, Vietnam: 1,410,000, Honduras: 600,000. ICE Deportations: China: 525, Philippines: 182, Vietnam: 71, Honduras: 22,381.
ICE-Gestapo’s heinous actions are about ethnic cleansing, not the rule of law that they’ve violated tens of thousands of times according to all these frightening reports. Their racial profiling, prolonged detention, and zero due process has culminated with thousands of U.S. citizens deported, 7-year-old asylees jailed, 10-year-olds with cerebral palsy arrested at the hospital.
ICE is a fascist, extrajudicial organization with zero accountability to due process, hence their rampant abuse of migrants, sexual assaults, and carelessness in releasing children to abusers and trafficking rings. It unlawfully detains legal residents and terrorizes immigrant communities.
ICE should not only be abolished, but prosecuted for their unlawful prolonged detention of lawful residents and citizens, an egregious 97 killings along the border, separation of children, and appalling sexual abuse of detainees – many among them, children. This is an undemocratic, criminal, ethnic-cleansing organization operating above the law. Illegal immigration cases should go back to being dealt with by the courts as it was before the reprehensible undemocratic Patriot Act (2003.) This authoritarian force operates extrajudicially with zero accountability to due process – a breeding ground for abuses of power.
We lived in a pre-ICE nation for 200 years. Many legal advocates support the measure. If those concerned with individual liberty look back on the 2003 Patriot Act and Iraq war in shame — this ethnic-cleansing organization established in 2003 should be no exception.We must prosecute these cruel, lawless officials and go back operating through the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) an agency of the DOJ.
Prosecuting ICE for Crimes Against Humanity
Genocide is an international law crime that includes acts of forced sterelization according to the UN Genocide Convention. Article II defines genocide as including the following acts (that ICE has committed):
“Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group “
It’s time for DHS to prosecute every agent involved in the forced sterilization against migrant women. It’s time for ICE to be tried for their crimes against humanity at an international court at The Hague.
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