A gynecologist is giving detained immigrant women hysterectomies without the immigrants' full consent.

This was the claim of a nonprofit group Project South who filed a complaint concerning this allegation.

Gynecologist Dr. Mahendra Amin allegedly conducts the procedure on immigrant women under Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), without fully explaining the operation.

Dawn Wooten, a whistleblower and former nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, also said that the doctor does not speak to them in their native language.

Wooten said the doctor did a hysterectomy to a young woman who was supposed to have a cyst removed from her left ovary.

One detained immigrant told Project South that she had the surgery despite telling the nurse that "the procedures is not for me." The immigrant said the medical professional responded by yelling at her.

Based on the complaint, the immigrant said she felt like they were trying to mess with her body after talking to a doctor, an ICE officer, and a nurse.

Another ICDC immigrant said she spoke to five detained immigrant women who had been given hysterectomies without proper explanation. The said immigrant called the situation an "experimental concentration camp."

The complaint does not include the number of women who have undergone a hysterectomy. However, a press release from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said that Amin forced at least 17 immigrants to have gynecological procedures.

"Sterilizing immigrant women is yet another horror to add to the laundry list of mistreatment and abuse documented at ICE's private prisons. This is an unacceptable track record," Paola Luisi, the director of Families Belong Together, said in a statement.

ICE did not respond to The Cut's request to comment before publication. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called an investigation into the allegations.

Immigrant detention centers are notorious for subpar medical care. Reports said that the situation has become even worse during the pandemic.

Azadeh Shahshahani, the legal and advocacy director for Project South, said the women held at ICDC told her that they were not given clean underwear, leading to infections and rashes.

Shahshahani commented on the performed hysterectomies, saying that it is a very exploitative situation.

An immigrant woman, who has accused guards of sexually assaulting her at a detention center in El Paso, Texas, was deported. The woman said that the guards at El Paso Processing Center forcibly kissed her and targeted her in places where security cameras could not see them.

The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general started an investigation into her case and allegations from at least two other people.

Meanwhile, the Mexican government has requested on Wednesday to see the United States' information about claims that immigrant women were subjected to hysterectomies, citing the detention center in Georgia and an immigrant who allegedly suffered from sexual abuse in Texas detention center.

"A formal request has been made to the appropriate authorities for a report on the supposed negligent actions or rights abuses at immigration detention centers," Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said in a report. 

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