dawn wooten will join us from atlanta. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amamy: "don't belilieve" by vasi bunyan. this is democracy now!, demomocracynow.org, the e quarae report. i am a amy goodman in new york joined by my cohost jujuan gonzalez from his home in new jersrsey. juan: welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: the official death toll from covid-19 in the united hitting 200,000, though the real number is almost certainly far highgher. some public health experts say ininfections could spike this fl and winterer and dououble the dh count by the end of the year. as the virus continues to spread we look now at allegations that immigration and customs enforcement helped spread the virus through medical neglect and abuse in ice jails. on monday, ice confirmed the 20th person to die in its detention in fiscal year 2020, making it one of the deadliest periods in the agency's history. cipriano chavez-alvarez was a 61-year-old mexican immigrant who had been held at the ste

amy: you yourself, dawn wooten, suffer from sickle-cell.ou voiced your complaint about the lack of protection for staff, like you a nurse as well as the prisoners. can you talk about whether or not you thihink that was related to your demotion.n. >> i do. i have sickle-cell. i had to have a minute procedure. when i took itit to my supervis, i was told, even though you're going to be covid-tested, can still come to work. wear our mask. onent to the physician early i was d diagnosed with an upper r respiratory infection. i had fluid on my lungs. i was on antibiotics. was running a temp. i had diarrhea. i had headaches. i had chest pain. i had a raspy cough. i was told i could still present to work because my test confirmed i was negative when i was symptomatic. amy: i want to bring azadedeh shahshahani into the conversation becausese we just reported that another person n s prison -- not at rked, whwhere nurse wooten wo but a separatete facility. i was wondering if you can tell us the latest news on him. >>>> sure, aiming. thank you for havav

but if not changing management, then i'm afraid that it will be hard to correct those measures >> dawn wooten, who is the whistleblower in this complaint against this facility, i.c.e. facility run by a private corporation in georgia john witty, her attorney tremendous bravery coming forward, ms. wooten. thank you for sharing your story tonight. i really appreciate it >> you're welcome. >> thank you, chris. >>> up next, updates on the case of breonna taylor. the latest after this. itching for a treat. itching for an outing... or itching for some cuddle time. but you may not know when he's itching for help... licking for help... or rubbing for help. if your dog does these frequently. they may be signs of an allergic skin condition that needs treatment. don't wait. talk to your veterinarian and learn more at itchingforhelp.com. >>> it was six months ago that breonna taylor was shot and killed by police officers in louisville, kentucky a 26-year-old ent preparing for nursing school, taylor was in bed with her boyfriend when police entered her apartment on a so-called no knock warrant her boyfrien

but if not changing management, then i'm afraid that it will be hard to correct those measures >> dawn wootenwer in this complaint against this facility, i.c.e. facility run by a private corporation in georgia john witty, her attorney tremendous bravery coming forward, ms. wooten. thank you for sharing your story tonight. i really appreciate it >> you're welcome. >> thank you, chris. >>> up next, updates on the case of breonna taylor. the latest after this. try boost® high protein... -with 20 grams of protein for muscle health- -versus only 16 grams in ensure® high protein. and now enjoy boost® high protein in new café mocha flavor. when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can save for an emergency from here. or pay bills from here. so when someone asks you, "where's your bank?" you can tell them: here's my bank. or here's my bank. or, here's my bank. because if you downl

the nurse's complaint is based on what the detained women have told her in the complaint dawn wootensterectomy, just about everybody. he has even taken out the wrong ovary on a young lady. she was supposed to get her left ovary removed because it had a cyst on the left ovary he took out the right one. she wound up a total hysterectomy she still wanted children, so she has to go back home now and tell her husband that she can't have kids. she said she was not all the way out under anesthesia and heard the doctor tell the nurse that he took the wrong ovary. here is what nurse dawn wooten told chris hayes. >> i had several detained women on numerous occasions that would come to me and say, ms. wooten, i had a hysterectomy why? i had no answers as to why they had those procedures and one lady walked up to me here this last time around between october of 19 until july the 2nd, and she said, what is he is he the uterus collector does he collect uteruses >> joining us now is a democrat from california. congresswoman, you are calling for an investigation on this what else needs to be done >>

whistleblower dawn wooten, a former nurse at irwin, labeled amin the "uterus collector." meanwhile, mexico's government is demanding u.s. authorities address allegations of forced sterilizations at irwin, where at least six mexexan women m may have had unwanted hysterectomies. this is mexico's foreign ministster marcelo ebrard speakg tuesday. >> it is something that is unacceptable and we reject it beforehand, even in the united states there is a reaction from importanant groups which we have been in contact with. this has to be cleared up. if it is confifirmed, it w willa major issue and not only punishshed, but also other measures will bebe taken. amy: in n california, immigratin rights advdvocates continue toto dedenounce governor gavin news's orders to transfer p people from state prisons to the custody of immigration and customs enforcement. this comes as "the guardian" reports 41-year-old kao saelee, who fought wildfires as an incarcerated firefighter in 2018 and 2019, was transferred to ice custody last month, the day of his prison release. after 22 years behind ba

dawn wooten sent that complaint to the inspector general of dhs.eir digging she did not name names she did not even name this doctor she did not give dates it was only from us speaking to lawyers with clients in this facility did we learn more of this story we've also learned that this doctor is someone who they send detainees to outside of the facility he's not actually working inside for i.c.e. one other detail, though, brian, that i did learn about this doctor is that in 2015, he and other doctors had to settle and pay over $500,000 in civil penalties for medicaid and medicare fraud with the justice department, that settlement in 2015 so we're learning more, and right now he's denying it. >> what a potentially explosive and obviously potentially very hurtful story. julia ainsley, thank you we will stay on this story with your help. >>> coming up, a late live update on the danger that millions are facing as we go on into the late night. nah. ♪ here? nope. ♪ here. ♪ when the middle of nowhere... is somewhere. the all-new chevy trailblazer. ♪ >>> l

they are clearly questioning dawn wooten here so far i.c.e.ting by nbc news that calls out this doctor by name and gives specific allegations that clients gave their lawyers. the other thing we're waiting for them to respond to is well is the company that runs the facility is the allegations from the lawyers they say they went to leadership to management at this facility and said you have a problem with this doctor our clients are afraid to go back to them he's hurting these women they continued for years to keep using this gynecologist to perform this care. right now i.c.e. has not responded to that new reporting. >> julia, can you widen the lens on the medical care that is standard for female detainees. it sounds like a whole lot of care when we read about the abject neglect around covid. >> i've been talking to lawyers who say i have clients in detention who had diabetes and couldn't get their medication yet they were told to go back for a pap smear and go again when that seemed irregular seemed like they were getting way too much care for

binam's looming deportation comes as whistleblower dawn wooten, who was a nurse at irwin, has detailed how the jail performed hysterectomies on prisoners without their consent. human rights advocates have condemned the disturbing practices, saying forced sterilization amounts to genocide. in related news, a key witness in an ongoing investigation into sexual assault and harassment allegations at an el paso, texas, immigrant prison has been deported. the 35-year-old woman from mexico had recently told her lawyers several guards forcibly kissed her and at t least onone touched d her intimate parar. she's one of at t least three people who have come forwaward about the systematicic sexual violence at the ice jail. the assaults would allegedly -- the department of homeland security's office of inspector general launched a probe into the accusations after propublica and the texas tribune first reported thehem last month. israel signed the u.s. brokered deal normalize relations with the ununited arab emirates and bahrain. president trump presided over the white house ceremony with the three

we have the whistleblower complaint from dawn wooten she was specific insofar as she said women wereey were unnamed. we did speak with four different lawyers who had represented either current or former clients within irwin two said their clients had had hysterectomies and others undergone invasive procedures without their consent or one were asked to have it and did not ultimately end up having it. there is a way to get to the bottom of this number one, obviously is here from detainees inside this facility essentially ice would be and we have asked for receipts, what are essentially receipts for these type of procedures that this doctor would have gone through this and so far ice has not provided those to us, joy and we continue to ask for them. >> just to be clear, you have tried to speak with the doctor as well and look for a statement. has he responded >> no. in fact, i called today again. julia called yesterday and was hung up on i called today and was literally hung up three times in a row within the course of two or three minutes. obviously the lawyer has spoken out, but the d

the shocking claim first came to light in a whistleblower complaint filed by a nurse named dawn wooten, who works at the irwin county detention center in georgia. wooten appeared on msnbc onn tuesday night.t. >> i i had seveveral detained wn on numererous occasioions that d wooten, a and say ms. i had a a hysterectomy, whyhy? i had n no answers asas to why y had thosose p procedureres. one lalady walked up to me here this last t time around betwewen octobeber 19 untntil july y 2 ae sasaid, what is he?? is he ththe uterus s collector? does h he collect u uterus is? i asksked her w what she meant. shee s said come everybody thati talked to has had at hysterectomy. amy: in related news, ice has temporarily halted the deportation of pauline binam, a cameroonian mother who says she was involuntarily sterilized while detained in georgia. binam was already on the plane wednesday when her deportation was stopped. she has lived in the united states since the age of two. mightl crisis have led to her -- in other immigration news, the trump admiministration has asked the supreme court to decide w

formal inquiry into those the investigation was initiated in part by a whistleblower, a nurse named dawn wooten who spoke with us on tuesday about some of what she heard while she worked at that facility, which is run by a private company. there are now several women that made the same allegations in the whistleblower complaint or at least echoing. one who we spoke to last night, a woman who we are identifying as b said she felt like she had no right to say anything about a hysterectomy she underwent she also told us about how the doctor performed an unexpected vaginal ultrasound that she says she was not prepared for. >> he wanted to do an ultrasound so what i thought was going to be on top of the stomach ultra sound. but instead, he proceeded with a vaginal ultrasound, i think i'm saying it right. but i was not aware of that. >> so you were not prepared for that >> no, not at all, no. so i feel violated and he just, you know, kept doing the procedure, the ultrasound. >> yesterday through his lawyer he sent us this denial we are aware of the whistleblower's allegations as they relate to dr. am

coerced sterilization of an imprisoned immigrant population crucially, though, the complaint that dawn wootenand she filed it with the ig for the dhs. she filed it did not have any first person testimony. she talked about talking to women. so for the last couple of days, we hear at "all in" have been trying to run down this story to find out what exactly are the facts. so tonight we are report there are three women that say they had procedures they either did not consent to ahead of time or felt coerced into consenting to. tonight an exclusive part an interview with a woman who said she felt pressured into a full abdominal hysterectomies she fears for her status, so we are calling her b and not showing her in the face. we have reviewed medical records that corroborate that she had this procedure she went to this doctor, an ob gyn in nearby douglas, georgia he has issued a statement saying we are aware of the whistleblower's statements as they relate to him and he vehemently denies them we look forward to all the facts coming out and are confident once they do, he will be cleared of any wrongd

i know alexandria ocassio-ortez talked about this today, and a whistleblower, dawn wooten, and she saysng acquisition of the whistleblower complaint, is there are unusual high rates of hysterectomy, essentially, these women without knowing what's going on, are undergoing sterilization procedures. >> i talked to miss wooten today. it's horrific what's happening there. and not only is she detailing how women came back to her and said they didn't know what happened, but there are lawyers saying their clients corroborated the accounts of miss wooten. and the doctor that performed these procedures, of course, is, you know, under the microscope at this point. but what i think this really gets to is the lack of oversight throughout the system as a whole. the fact that this can happen, the fact that covid is spreading rampantly, and the fact that family separations could happen virtually undetected until journalists that were following thi far closer than i was uncovered it shows that we have a problem here. it's the same reason i wrote the book. we're not paying attention to what is happening

nurse dawn wooten, the whistleblower, also described neglect and under-testing for covid-19 at the jail, which is run by the foror-profifit lasale corrections. palestinians in gaza and the west bank are holding a day of rage to protest the united arab emirates and bahrain's decision to become the e first air countries to normalize rations withth israel i in over 25 year. president trump, israeli prime minister netanyahu come and officials from uae and bahrain our meeting today at the white house to sign the agreements. over the weekend, the palestinian factions of hamas and fatah agreed on forming a "unified field leadership" to lead a joint resistance against the israeli ococcupation. a boat carrying refufugees capsized off the coastst of liba in the mediterranean, leaving at least 24 people dead or mimiing. at least 45 people s survived. the u.n. called out the restrictions imposed on ngo's by european nations, including unnecessary and long stand-offs at sea. over 400 refugee deaths have been recorded so far this year in the mediterranean sea. in greece, thousands of f refugs remain