US deports migrant women who alleged abuse by Georgia doctor
Source: AP
By NOMAAN MERCHANT
HOUSTON (AP) The Trump administration is trying to deport several women who allege they were mistreated by a Georgia gynecologist at an immigration detention center, according to their lawyers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already deported six former patients who complained about Dr. Mahendra Amin, who has been accused of operating on migrant women without their consent or performing procedures that were medically unnecessary and potentially endangered their ability to have children. At least seven others at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, who had made allegations against the doctor have received word that they could soon be removed from the country, the lawyers said.
Hours after one detained woman spoke to federal investigators, she said ICE told her that it had lifted a hold on her deportation and she faced imminent removal.
Another woman was taken to a rural Georgia airport early Monday and told to sign deportation papers, only to be brought back to the facility as her lawyers sued in federal court.
FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, Dawn Wooten, left, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, speaks at a news conference in Atlanta protesting conditions at the immigration jail. The Trump administration is deporting several women who have alleged they were abused or mistreated by a Georgia gynecologist at an immigration detention center, according to lawyers representing the women. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)
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eppur_se_muova
(36,256 posts)Bayard
(22,035 posts)Its bad enough to imprison these women.
iluvtennis
(19,843 posts)deport them.
Hope they are still here and their lawyers are getting assistnace from ACLU and other immigrant law advocates.
csziggy
(34,133 posts)"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already deported six former patients who complained about Dr. Mahendra Amin,..."
Some HAVE been deported, others are fighting deportation.
iluvtennis
(19,843 posts)SunSeeker
(51,545 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)n/t
csziggy
(34,133 posts)How much harder will it be to find a much smaller number of women - who may never want to be located by the government that abused them?