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   Leading congressional Democrats reacted furiously Tuesday to   
   lightly-substantiated claims that immigrants held at a detention   
   center in Georgia are undergoing questionable hysterectomies.   
      
   In a complaint filed Monday, a nurse alleges that the Irwin   
   County Detention Center performed questionable hysterectomies,   
   refused to test detainees for COVID-19 and shredded medical   
   records.   
      
   Democrats seized on the most explosive allegations in the   
   nurse’s complaint — that a gynecologist called the “uterus   
   collector” was performing “mass hysterectomies” — in declaring   
   they would investigate the matter.   
      
   A follow-up news conference Tuesday in Atlanta provided little   
   information to substantiate the claims. Lawyers for the nurse,   
   Dawn Wooten, refused to release her full statement that she made   
   to the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General. She   
   declined to take questions after reading a statement that made   
   no reference to mass hysterectomies or did not quantify how many   
   of the procedures were performed on immigrant women at the   
   facility. The doctor is not named in the complaint.   
      
   Wooten worked full-time as a licensed practical nurse at the   
   immigration jail until July, when she was demoted.   
      
   Democrats were quick to jump on the allegations after spending   
   the last three years condemning the Trump administration’s   
   treatment of immigrants, including the separation of families   
   and the detention of children in squalid conditions at the   
   border.   
      
   “If true, the appalling conditions described in the   
   whistleblower complaint – including allegations of mass   
   hysterectomies being performed on vulnerable immigrant women –   
   are a staggering abuse of human rights,” House Speaker Nancy   
   Pelosi, a California Democrat, said in a statement.   
      
   Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the   
   House Homeland Security Committee, said the panel is conducting   
   an ongoing investigation about the conditions at ICE contractor   
   facilities “and will be examining these new and incredibly   
   serious allegations.”   
      
   It was unclear to Wooten if women knowingly consented to the   
   operations. She said nurses raised concerns about the doctor.   
      
   “Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy — just about everybody,”   
   Wooten said in the complaint. “He’s even taken out the wrong   
   ovary on a young lady.”   
      
   The facility in Ocilla, about 200 miles south of Atlanta, houses   
   men and women detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs   
   Enforcement, as well as inmates for the U.S. Marshals Service   
   and Irwin County. It’s run by the private LaSalle Corrections, a   
   Louisiana company.   
      
   ICE said it does not comment on matters before the inspector   
   general but that it takes all allegations seriously.   
      
   “That said, in general, anonymous, unproven allegations, made   
   without any fact-checkable specifics, should be treated with the   
   appropriate skepticism they deserve,” the agency said in a   
   statement.   
      
   Wooten spoke little about the hysterectomy allegation during the   
   news conference, instead focusing on her concerns that the   
   facility wasn’t testing detainees for COVID-19, that the   
   detention center wasn’t being sanitized, and that little   
   protective equipment was available for employees.   
      
   While the 27-page complaint filed by advocacy group Project   
   South quotes unidentified detainees extensively, it also   
   includes detailed comments from Wooten. The complaint says   
   Wooten was demoted after missing work with coronavirus symptoms,   
   which she believes was retaliation for raising questions about   
   COVID-19.   
      
   “I know I was demoted because I raised questions about why,”   
   Wooten said during the news conference. “I was told not to tell   
   officers that there were detainees they dealt with day in and   
   day out that were positive.”   
      
   Wooten said the number of detainees infected was much higher   
   than reported because there was no active testing and not all   
   cases were reported, according to the complaint. The New York   
   Times reported in June that inmates engaged in protests because   
   of concerns about poor COVID-19 protections.   
      
   Wooten is quoted as saying the sick call nurse sometimes   
   fabricated seeing detainees in person when they hadn’t and that   
   she saw the nurse shred a box of detainee complaints without   
   looking at them. She said nurses ignored detainees reporting   
   COVID-19 symptoms.   
      
   If detainees reported a fever, nurses would put them on an over-   
   the-counter cold medication for seven days without testing them   
   for COVID-19, she said.   
      
   Wooten said the facility declined to use two rapid-testing COVID-   
   19 machines that ICE purchased for $14,000 each. No medical   
      
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