Dear John,

I was outraged to learn of a whistleblower complaint this week reporting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been performing hysterectomies on women held in an immigration jail run by a for-profit prison company in Georgia. But I was not surprised.

ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have a long history of human rights abuses and horrific medical neglect, endangering the lives of our community members and loved ones without consequence.

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Just last week, AFSC released a report called “Pregnant Women and Asylum Seekers during COVID-19: U.S. Government Abuses at the Border and Beyond” in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights, Human Rights First, and the Women’s Refugee Commission.

That report highlighted, among other things, “harrowing accounts of pregnant people who were mistreated in DHS custody, denied medical treatment while in labor, and forcibly expelled to unsafe locations in Mexico days after giving birth.”

It’s time for Congress to stop handing $25 billion each year to agencies that routinely mistreat immigrants, causing irreparable harm and, in some cases, deaths.

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Thank you for standing up for the human rights of immigrants and raising your voice to help put a stop to abusive agencies.

In solidarity,

Kristin Kumpf
Director of Human Migration and Mobility

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