Michigan native #ErikPrince proposes #deportation plan to #ElSalvador, report says

By Justin Engel, Apr. 14, 2025

"Erik Prince, the former CEO of #Blackwater USA and a Michigan native, is among a group of defense contractors proposing to expand plans for deporting #immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, Politico reported.

"The pitch would attempt to avoid #legal challenges by designating part of the El Salvador prison system as #AmericanTerritory, the report stated.

" '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,' the Politico report stated. '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.'

"The report coincides with President Donald Trump’s plans to host #NayibBukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday, April 14.

"Since March, El Salvador has accepted from the U.S. more than 200 #Venezuelan immigrants — whom officials with President Donald Trump’s administration have accused of gang activity and violent crimes — and placed them inside the country’s notorious maximum-security gang prison. It is also holding a Maryland man who the administration admits was wrongly deported but has not been returned to the U.S., despite court orders to do so.

"Trump has ties to the family of Prince, an automotive supplier heir from Holland. Prince is the brother of #BetsyDeVos, the secretary of education during the first Trump administration.

"Prince, a major Republican donor, has been accused of acting as a back channel on behalf of Trump. As Trump was preparing to take office in 2017, Prince met with a official close to Russian President Vladimir #Putin in the #Seychelles, islands off the coast of east Africa. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation said the meeting was set up ahead of time with the knowledge of former White House aide #StephenBannon.

"Prince soared to notoriety after Blackwater USA employees in 2007 shot and killed #Iraqi #civilians in Baghdad’s #NisourSquare during the Iraq war, casting a light on the role played by private contractors in U.S. military operations overseas.

"In the wake of the scandal the company’s name was changed and Prince sold his shares to a private equity fund."

https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/04/michigan-native-erik-prince-proposes-deportation-plan-to-el-salvador-report-says.html

#ErikPrinceColonialism #Blackwater #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #TripleCanopy #PrivateArmy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas #Project2025 #TigerSwan #Fascism
#Authoritarianism

Exclusive- #Trump supporter #ErikPrince reaches deal with #Congo to help secure [steal] mineral wealth

Jessica Donati and Sonia Rolley
Thu, April 17, 2025

Excerpt: "Democratic Republic of Congo has vast reserves of #copper, #cobalt, #lithium and #coltan - a mineral used widely in smartphones, computers and electric vehicles - but has been plagued for decades by violence in its eastern region.

"The agreement between Congo and Prince initially involved a plan to deploy contractors to Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and the largest city in eastern Congo. But Goma is now under M23 control and that plan has been put on hold. M23 controls tracts of mineral-rich territory.

"A source close to the Congolese government told Reuters an initial deployment of Prince's advisers was expected to start in the south, far from the area controlled by #M23 and its allies.

" 'If you just look at Katanga, if you look at Kolwezi down just off the Zambian-Congo border, they claim that there's like $40 million a month in lost revenue of what's going out and what's coming in,' the source said.

"A diplomatic source also told Reuters the first stage of Prince's effort in Congo would focus on securing mines and tax revenues in copper-producing Katanga province.

"One of the sources close to Prince said advisers were expected to deploy with technical experts from a company specialised in testing and inspecting commodities. The advisers would initially target larger mines and expand as revenue collection improved.

"The source did not provide details on how the advisers would tackle corruption in the sector that has long drained revenue that would otherwise flow to the state.

"A source in the office of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said an agreement in principle had been signed with Prince, but the details on where and how many advisers would be deployed remained to be established."

https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-supporter-prince-reaches-142935924.html

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#PrivateArmy #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal
#TripleCanopy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas
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#ErikPrince: Private sector can help with #MassDeportations

Leland Vittert
Tue, February 25, 2025

"Erik Prince, founder of the former security contractor #Blackwater, denied proposing a 'private army' for mass deportations and instead described a logistics plan to help the #Trump administration fulfill its immigration goals.

" 'This is not some idea of a private army,' Prince said Tuesday on NewsNation’s On Balance. 'It was a memo generated to describe how to achieve the logistics necessary to move the millions of people that they intend to deport.'

"Prince pushed back against a Politico report that described a plan circulated among Trump allies calling for 'processing camps' and a private citizen force to carry out deportations.

"He said that the memo outlines how to accomplish mass deportations 'in a #legal, #ethical manner” with necessary #DueProcess. [WHAT A JOKE!!!]

" 'If people think it’s a huge number, think about how we’ve been invaded. We’ve had millions of people float into the country illegally, actually paying the cartels to smuggle them in,' Prince said.

"According to the Politico report, Prince and other contractors submitted a 26-page proposal before Trump’s inauguration that included using private aircraft, 'processing camps' on military bases, and deputizing private citizens to make arrests.

"The plan reportedly carries a $25 billion price tag to deport 12 million people before the 2026 midterms.

"Prince suggested the government would eventually need the private sector to help achieve Trump’s immigration goals, noting that deportation flights 'for years, even when other administrations are doing it, were largely contractor managed and operated.'

Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/erik-prince-private-sector-help-044932521.html

Very often, I find myself wondering, "Is there an #ErikPrince connection to x, y or z?" And very often, I am right!
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Many pet owners move to the country just so their dogs can roam in wildlife habitat

"We moved to the country to give our rescued working dogs a better life."
74% of Australians own introduced species as pets.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/14/we-moved-to-the-country-to-give-our-rescued-working-dogs-a-better-life
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American billionaire Erik Prince seeks #Israeli investments -- Founder of #Blackwater to visit Israel in July.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
JUNE 16, 2019

"American billionaire Erik Prince, a former US Navy Seal and founder of controversial military contractor Blackwater, will visit Israel next month to search for new investment opportunities.

"Prince, who also co-founded Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group (FSG) in 2014, will meet with start-ups and companies in fields including defense technology, intelligence and foodtech.

"Drone-maker BlueBird Aero Systems, off-road vehicle developer Tomcar, artificial intelligence defense solutions provider Axon Vision and satellite rescue firm Magnus are among the companies Prince is due to meet during his visit.

[...]

"Particularly of interest to Prince are the young alumni of elite #IDF intelligence unit 8200, who have established a reputation for developing innovative hi-tech start-ups after their release from the army."

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/American-billionaire-Erik-Prince-targets-Israeli-investments-592599

Well, well, well... Connecting the dots! Why am I not surprised to find #ErikPrince's bloody fingerprints on #Israeli #genocide!

#Israel preparing to flood #Hamas tunnels with seawater

Story by Harriet Marsden, 12/7/2023

"The Times reported that 'controversial US security contractor' Erik Prince, founder of private military company Blackwater, 'persuaded' Israel 'only days" after the 7 October attacks by Hamas 'to buy his sophisticated mining equipment' to flood the tunnels. A source reportedly told the paper that the involvement of the former US Navy Seal was a 'red flag' to the Joe Biden administration, which 'demanded more study' on the potential impact of flooding on groundwater and sewage facilities."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-preparing-to-flood-hamas-tunnels-with-seawater/ar-AA1l9DUn

#OffLeash: Inside the Secret, Global, #FarRight Group Chat

Military contractor #ErikPrince started a private #WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of #RightWing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.

Ken Silverstein/
May 30, 2024

"In his book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in #Hitler’s Berlin, Erik Larson cites a cable sent to the State Department in June 1933 by a U.S. diplomat posted in Germany that provided a far more candid assessment of the Nazi leadership than the one that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration was then conveying to the public. 'With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand,' read the cable, which was written five months after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. 'Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere.'

"I’ve thought about that passage from the cable many times over the past several weeks as I’ve been reading excerpts from a private WhatsApp group chat established last December by Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor #Blackwater and younger brother of #BetsyDeVos, the secretary of education during President Donald Trump’s administration, who invited around 650 of his contacts in the United States and around the world to join. Prince, who has a long track record of financing conservative candidates and causes and extensive ties to right-wing regimes around the world, named the group—which currently has around 400 members—'Off Leash,' the same name as the new podcast that he’d launched the month before."

Read more:
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash