BONUS: A Story of Asylum, and Musician Lido Pimienta on Her New Album "Miss Colombia"
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The Intercept
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus episode of Intercepted, journalist John Washington, whose latest reporting for The Intercept expanded on an explosive new whistleblower complaint alleging that mass hysterectomies occurred at an ICE detention facility, reads an excerpt from his new book, “The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond.” And the Colombian-Canadian musician Lido Pimienta talks about her latest album, Miss Colombia, and how the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant inspired her to look critically at anti-blackness in Colombia. She’s currently organizing a relief fund for Colombian families affected by Covid-19, which you can learn more about here.
A very special thanks to our friend Francisco Bravo for his help with this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is intercepted. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Elise Swain, Associate Producer, and this is a special bonus episode of Intercepted. |
| 0:39.6 | As I'm clearly not Jeremy Scayhill, I wanted to let you all know that he will be returning |
| 0:43.3 | to host our regular program very soon. |
| 0:46.8 | On Tuesday, Jose Alavarez and John Washington reported for the intercept further details |
| 0:51.6 | of a shocking story about mistreatment of detained women at an ICE detention facility in |
| 0:56.3 | Georgia. |
| 0:57.3 | A nurse at a Georgia Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prison says the Irwin County |
| 1:02.1 | Detention Center is performing hysterectomies on prisoners without their consent. |
| 1:07.2 | Project South sent the explosive whistleblower count to the Department of Homeland Security |
| 1:12.4 | in the Office of the Inspector General. |
| 1:14.9 | One jailed migrant recounted, quote, when I met all these women who had had surgeries, |
| 1:20.4 | I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. |
| 1:23.8 | It was like they're experimenting with our bodies. |
| 1:28.0 | The story was exposed by a whistleblower named Dawn Wooten. |
| 1:31.0 | She worked full-time as a licensed practical nurse at the For Prophet Prison. |
| 1:35.6 | She's being represented now by the Government Accountability Project and Human Rights Group, |
| 1:39.6 | Project South. |
| 1:41.2 | Working with her, they both filed complaints to the Department of Homeland Security's Office |
| 1:45.1 | of the Inspector General. |
| 1:47.0 | And on Monday, the complaint filed by Project South, detailed how an off-site doctor performed |
| 1:52.2 | hysterectomies on women detained at the ICE facility. |
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