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From Mrs. Hamer to ICE Detainees: Hysterectomies Recall a Long History of Forced Sterilizations

A whistleblower says a doctor in a Georgia prison was sterilizing ICE-detained immigrant women without their permission. This is not new in the U.S. where Latina, Indigenous and Black women have long been forcibly sterilized. This eugenics was so common in Mississippi in the 1960s, in fact, that civil-rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer called it the “Mississippi Appendectomy” after it happened to her.

Jerry Flores October 5, 2020

News

Feds Indict Poultry Execs After 2019 Mississippi ICE Raids; No Charges for Koch, PECO

One day shy of a year after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed poultry plants across Mississippi and arrested 680 undocumented workers, ICE and the U.S. Department of Justice announced their first indictments against executives at the targeted companies.

Ashton Pittman August 6, 2020

Francisca Morales Diaz - Mississippi Free Press

In-Depth

‘They See Us As Disposable’: ICE Detainees Plead for Release from COVID-19 ‘Breeding Ground’

During Francisca Morales Diaz’ last week at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in mid-March, guards told her and the 71 other women in her cell block that they would soon run out of toilet paper and soap, even as the novel coronavirus was spreading across the south. Diaz, a diabetic whose disease makes her especially susceptible to COVID-19, had already spent nearly eight months in ICE custody in the prison.

Ashton Pittman April 6, 2020