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“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal) for yielding me the time. This weekend, several of my colleagues and I visited the Irwin County ICE Detention Center, and what we saw and heard was outrageous and heartbreaking. We heard stories directly from women who were subjected to unnecessary and unwanted medical procedures without their consent. And yet yesterday, some of our friends across the aisle suggested that some of this may be made up, that this is not real. Well, here I have some statements I received directly from the detainees this past weekend, and I am going to read from these, written in their own hands, for the Record. They are in Spanish, but they will be translated into English. This letter was signed by 24 detainees. The women said: (English translation of the statement made in Spanish is as follows:) They do not understand what is happening to their body, nor what they did to their body. ``No entienden que esta pasando con su cuerpo, ni que hicieron con su cuerpo''. Mr. Speaker, imagine if you were put under in surgery and were not told what was being done to your body, and you went through the surgery. This is what is happening to some of these women. They went on to say: (English translation of the statement made in Spanish is as follows:) ``They `told' them they were going to perform a study and they deceived them. Because a surgery room should not be a school.'' ``Le vamos a hacer un estudio les `dijeron' y las habeis enganado.…”