MICHAEL KREITZER: To claim that we’re part of a greater goal of sterilizing the Mexican population that immigrates to Los Angeles, I mean, I’m offended by that. The idea that somebody could be forcibly sterilized seemed like something out of a mental institution out of the 1920s.ĭR. GLORIA MOLINA: We were talking about abortion rights, all of the issues of feminism at that time. It was just the beginning of the emergence of the civil rights movement in the Latino community. We are suing HEW for noncompliance or nonenforcement, nonmonitoring of the sterilization regulation. Here I, as this young lawyer, am for the first time telling them, “Do you know that you’ve been sterilized?” Some of them don’t even remember signing. REPORTER 4: This is the emergency department of Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center.ĪNTONIA HERNÁNDEZ: Some of them signed right in the midst of labor. BERNARD ROSENFELD: They were extremely fearful, being told that you need an emergency cesarean section and you can feel blood pouring down your leg, at that time signing a consent for tubal ligation. REPORTER 3: Something drastic must be done about population growth.ĬONSUELO HERMOSILLO: The doctor walked in and said, “We cut your tubes.” And I said, “Why?” He goes, “Well, you signed for it.” I said, “Me?” I go, “I don’t remember nothing.” And I didn’t tell my family. REPORTER 2: Were told they should be sterilized to save taxpayers welfare money. His mother does not have immigration papers. REPORTER 1: This baby boy became a citizen one minute ago. MARÍA HURTADO: Who knows why? But I do feel sad. Inside I feel pain, remembering.ĭAUGHTER: What makes you sad being here? MARÍA HURTADO: There are still beds here. NARRATION: In East Los Angeles during the late 1960s and early 1970s, women were going to the county hospital to give birth. Virginia Espino is the producer of the documentary No Más Bebés, or No More Babies. Well, for our next guest, the news that a doctor had given immigrant women unwanted sterilizations sounded eerily familiar.
On Tuesday, we interviewed the whistleblower nurse, Dawn Wooten, who worked at Irwin and said that women held there called Dr. Mahendra Amin reportedly saw at least 60 women detained at the ICE jail, which is run by the private prison company LaSalle Corrections.
AMY GOODMAN: In Georgia, immigration authorities have stopped sending immigrant female detainees held in the Irwin County Detention Center to a gynecologist accused of sterilizing the women prisoners without their consent.
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