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A Senate panel found immigration officials did not do enough to monitor medical procedures on female migrant detainees in rural Georgia.
A Senate panel found immigration officials did not do enough to monitor medical procedures on female migrant detainees in rural Georgia.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities didn't do enough to adequately vet or monitor a gynecologist in rural Georgia who performed unnecessary medical procedures on detained migrant women without their consent, according to results of a Senate investigation released Tuesday.
A Senate panel highlighted results of the 18-month investigation of off-site health care for migrants previously held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the privately owned and operated Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia.
A Senate panel says multiple detained migrant women housed at the now-closed Georgia detention center were subjected to invasive and sometimes unnecessary gynecological surgeries.