Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are attempting to silence migrant women who alleged abuse by a Georgia gynecologist at an immigration detention center, according to lawyers who spoke to The Associated Press.
The Trump administration has already deported six of Dr. Mahendra Amin’s former patients, and now lawyers say at least seven other women at the Irwin County Detention Center have received word that they will soon be deported too. All of the women have complained that Amin operated on them without their consent or performed “procedures that were medically unnecessary and potentially endangered their ability to have children,” The Associated Press reports.
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