If we care about the information provided by whistleblowers, we need to care about the whistleblowers too.
Last month, the bipartisan Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on the medical mistreatment of women in ICE detention after conducting an 18-month investigation spurred by "a September 2020 whistleblower complaint." The subcommittee found that dozens, and possibly hundreds, of immigrant women at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia had been subjected to nonconsensual, medically unnecessary surgeries that created health risks and rendered many women sterile, with the contracted doctor at the facility performing 90 percent of four types of invasive procedures on just 4 percent of the entire population of women in ICE detention. It also found that ICE Health Services Corps' processes for vetting contracted medical providers and approving procedures were woefully inadequate and would have failed to detect the wrongdoing.
At the hearing, PSI Chairman Sen. John Ossoff (D-GA) asked Dr. Stewart Smith, the ICE Health Services Corps assistant director, a question that should have never been necessary to proffer: "[h]ow did you allow dozens if not hundreds of women to be subjected to unnecessary gynecological surgery? How did that happen?"
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