Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday called for an investigation into a Georgia ICE detention center where a whistleblower complaint from one of the facility’s nurses detailed health care abuses, including questionable hysterectomies and a refusal to test for and report coronavirus cases. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement El Paso Processing Center. Agence France-Presse/AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Pelosi said, if true, the “appalling conditions described in the whistleblower complaint” are a “staggering abuse of human rights,” in her statement asking for an immediate investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General. Several legal advocacy groups filed the 27-page whistleblower complaint with the DHS’s Office of the Inspector General, the agency’s internal watchdog, on Monday, on behalf of nurse Dawn Wooten, citing testimony from Wooten as well as several detainees. Wooten, who worked full-time at the Irwin Detention Center in Georgi… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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