Mexico says one of its citizens was subjected to a non-consensual surgery in ICE detention
Charles Davis
Tue, October 13, 2020, 3:27 AM EDT
- The Mexican government says at least one of its citizens received a non-consensual surgery while detained at a US immigration facility in Irwin, Georgia.
- The facility made headlines last month after a whistleblower claimed numerous women were being subjected to unwanted surgeries, including hysterectomies.
- The Mexican government did not specify what surgery the woman had received but said it is in touch with a lawyer who is considering a class-action lawsuit.
The woman was reportedly held at a facility where a whistleblower and several former detainees allege immigrants were regularly pressured into receiving unwanted and unnecessary medical operations at the hands of the facility's on-call gynecologist. At least one woman at the facility in Irwin, Georgia, said
one of her Fallopian tubes .
Given the gravity of the charge, the government said it had "solicited the opinion of a medical specialist who, after an exhaustive review of the [medical] file, believed that there were
irregularities or anomalies in the medical procedure."
The foreign ministry said it had also received a report from
another woman detained at the facility who says she underwent a gynecological procedure "without her full consent."
The Mexican consulate in Atlanta "is in contact with [an] attorney who's coordinating a possible
class-action lawsuit," Mexico's foreign ministry added.