Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants

[Eugene]

DU thread from last month: 'Maga since forever': mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans

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Source: Politico

Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants

Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.

By Dasha Burns and Myah Ward
04/11/2025 04:54 PM EDT

Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and a team of defense contractors are pitching the White House on a plan to vastly expand deportations to El Salvador — transporting thousands of immigrants from U.S. holding facilities to a sprawling maximum security prison in Central America.

The proposal, exclusively obtained by POLITICO, says it would target “criminal illegal aliens” and would attempt to avoid legal challenges by designating part of the prison — which has drawn accusations of violence and overcrowding from human rights groups — as American territory.

It’s unclear how seriously the White House is considering the plan by Prince, who has drawn scrutiny for his firm’s role in a deadly massacre in Iraq two decades ago. But it would give Prince’s group an unprecedented and potentially highly lucrative role in an expanded version of a transnational operation that has elicited its own web of controversies, in part because it has swept up immigrants who do not have criminal records in the United States.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208

[58Sunliner]

1. Terrorism.

[Walleye]

2. I don't know why we can't just give them a hearing on American soil. And if they are criminals, try them in court.

And if they are found guilty, we have plenty of prison space in this country. We don’t need to be doing this shit. These people aren’t an existential threat to the United States anyway. The right wing is always muddled up crime with national security. They are two different things.

[SheltieLover]

4. Because the money hoarders want kickbacks.

[Walleye]

6. Money probably is the motive, but I think they get off on making people suffer

[SheltieLover]

7. Of course! Cruelty is part of the fun for them.

[sop]

3. The Salvadorean torture gulag is going to turn into another Abu Ghraib if Erik Prince gets control of it.

[Dawson Leery]

5. MAGA is evil.

[crud]

8. Corruption of the most vile kind

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