Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants

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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