ICE Deports Migrant Women Who Allege Abuse by Georgia Gynecologist

November 20, 2020

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES - 2019/06/27: A participant holds a placard during a rally in protest of the Trump Administration’s plan to use the Fort Sill Army Base as a detention center for immigrant children and other Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees. Los Angeles, California. Organizers called to end family separation policies. During World War II, Fort Sill served as a Japanese American internment camp. The rally took place outside the Japanese American National Museum. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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.