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AMY GOODMAN: So, let’s go to a tweet you sent out earlier this month. You wrote, “If you vote for a bloated $740 billion defense budget, which [is] over 50% of our discretionary budget, or the Trump $1.6 trillion tax cut, please save us the lectures about deficits. You have no credibility.” In addition to voting on the $2,000 checks to go out, both houses of Congress are expected to overturn Trump’s veto of the NDAA. Can you explain what this is all about?
REP. RO KHANNA: It’s very simple. Trump has vetoed the defense bill, which would be $740 billion. Now, his reasons for vetoing it are disingenuous. He wants to strip tech companies of Section 230 protections, which, if you strip them of that, would really hurt speech on the internet. This is not some thoughtful reform.
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody Dec 22, 2020
One former detainee says she was already in a hospital gown this past July waiting to be wheeled into surgery, when she began to suspect something was very wrong. Jaromy Floriano Navarro thought she was getting an operation to remove a cyst on her ovary â until the driver who brought her to the hospital said otherwise. She was just like, you know you re having a hysterectomy, right? Floriano tells NPR in an interview. And I was in shock, because I knew what that meant.
Floriano is one of more than 30 undocumented immigrants who ve come forward with allegations of medical abuse, according to court papers filed late Monday â all of them current or former detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. Many of the women say they were coerced to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
By Joel Rose
December 22, 2020
One former detainee says she was already in a hospital gown this past July, waiting to be wheeled into surgery, when she began to suspect something was very wrong. Jaromy Floriano Navarro thought she was getting an operation to remove a cyst on her ovary until the driver who brought her to the hospital said otherwise.
“She was just like, ‘You know you’re having a hysterectomy, right?’ ” Floriano tells NPR in an interview. “And I was in shock, because I knew what that meant.”
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Dec 23, 2020
More than 30 women say they were subject to non-consensual invasive medical procedures.
More than 30 women filed a class-action lawsuit on Monday against a Georgia gynecologist and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, alleging they were subject to medical abuse and retaliation while in ICE custody.
The women, all of whom were detained at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, allege they underwent non-consensual invasive procedures ― including hysterectomies, birth control shots, and medically unindicated gynecological procedures that amounted to sexual assault ― at the hands of Dr. Mahendra Amin, who was working as an obstetrician-gynecologist authorized by ICE to provide medical services to detainees. The immigrant women also accuse ICE and LaSalle Corrections employees of retaliating against them for speaking out against Amin. (LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company, operates the detention center.)
Group of 35 immigrant women sue ICE over abuse by a Georgia doctor accused of performing hysterectomies without consent
A class-action lawsuit was filed Monday in the US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia by at least 35 women against ICE
Dr. Mahendra Amin is accused of operating on women held at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, without their consent
The suit also claims women faced retaliation for speaking out, including being deported, being placed in solitary confinement or being physically assaulted
It contains sworn testimony from at least 35 alleged victims
A nurse at the facility blew the whistle on the doctor s alleged treatment of the women in September