Morning Briefing: Private Security Firms and Local Law Enforcement Ready to Profit From Mass Deportations
Private military contractors have reportedly pitched the White House on a 'proposal to carry out mass deportations,' and local governments incentivized for 'both political and financial reasons.'
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Morning Briefing: Private military and security contractors have reportedly “pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of ‘processing camps’ on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, and a ‘small army’ of private citizens empowered to make arrests.”
The plan apparently includes a proposal to deputize “10,000 private citizens, including military veterans, former law enforcement officials and retired ICE and CBP officers, giving them expedited training and the same federal law enforcement powers of immigration officials.”
Erik Prince, the former CEO of the private mercenary company formerly known as Blackwater, was among the individuals that lobbied for the private security force, and during a recent interview said that the federal government will eventually “exhaust all the internal government capability” to carry out mass deportations.
“If they’re going to hit those kind of numbers and scale, they’re going to need additional private sector,” Prince said.
After the election, President Donald Trump’s advisors reportedly discussed “plans to enlist local law enforcement to help the federal government deport undocumented immigrants,” and local governments may be incentivized to participate in mass deportations for “both political and financial reasons.”
In Hartford, Wisconsin, community members reportedly found “hateful propaganda put out by a white supremacist group on their sidewalks and driveways,” and the flyers included the message: "Who's working in the interest of white Americans?"
Ku Klux Klan propaganda and racist flyers were reportedly found in Bowling Green, Ohio, and the community appears to be “one of the many cities along I-75 being targeted.” Ku Klux Klan propaganda was “assumed to be distributed from Kentucky and have been spotted in other areas including Dayton, Perrysburg, Findlay, Troy, Cincinnati and Kentucky.”
Many White Americans' belief in voter fraud is “not based on actual election fears but rather was driven by negative views toward minorities,” according to a recent study published by the UCLA Voting Rights Project. The study also found that racial antipathy “played a pivotal role in shaping beliefs about voter fraud as well as belief that the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was justified.”
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Julian Feeld writes that “the living legacy of QAnon is much greater than the personalities who have smuggled its ideas into positions of political power. It’s alive in how Americans perceive our political agency, how we process current events, and how we interact with traditional and social media. The QAnon wave may have broken, but its sediment has settled deep into American political life. QAnon adherents are not alone in perceiving themselves as ‘digital soldiers’ fighting an ‘information war’ between good and evil. Conceding a fact or perspective that is beneficial to your perceived opponents is akin to a retreat… QAnon’s most lasting impact is normalizing this way of responding to social crisis — and making it far less likely that people will seek alternatives, like concrete political organizing around necessary and achievable social and political reforms. Until we can build compelling reality-based political movements that address the worsening economic and social conditions that gave rise to QAnon — movements that give people the same feeling of recovering agency in a chaotic and disempowering world — the QAnon-ization will continue, whether or not the original label fades from the spotlight.” [Jacobin]
David Gilbert writes that “Dan Bongino has spent the last decade building a career in right-wing media based on his sycophantic support of President Donald Trump and his willingness to engage in endless conspiracy theories about everything from Covid-19 and the 2020 elections to the FBI, which he has said should no longer exist in its current form… Bongino, who previously served as a police officer in New York and as a Secret Service agent protecting former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has no FBI experience—a trait he shares with Kash Patel, the QAnon-promoting Trump loyalist who was last week confirmed as the new director of the FBI. The deputy director role, which oversees day-to-day operations of the bureau, has typically gone to an experienced FBI agent. In January, after he was nominated but before he was confirmed by the Senate, Patel met with two senior members of the FBI Agents Association, and, Patel ‘privately agreed’ that ‘the FBI Deputy Director should continue to be an on-board, active Special Agent—as has been the case for 117 years for many compelling reasons.’ This information was shared with the associations’ members in a memo sent on Sunday evening, an hour before Trump announced Bongino’s appointment, according to a copy of the newsletter reviewed by WIRED.” [Wired]
Francesca D'Annunzio writes that “among the obstacles to Trump’s vision of the ‘largest deportation in the history of our country’ is a simple lack of manpower: Nationwide, ICE only has around 6,000 deportation agents. For the president’s plans to come to fruition, ICE will likely need not just increased funding from Congress but greater cooperation from local police around the country—in other words, the agency may need to turn beat cops and sheriff’s deputies across the nation into Homan’s henchmen. And in Texas, this process now appears to be kicking off in earnest. Over the past month, three agencies in Texas—the Office of the Attorney General, the Smith County Sheriff’s Office, and the Goliad County Sheriff’s Office—have signed agreements with ICE establishing what are known as 287(g) ‘Task Force Model’ agreements. These agreements, two of which were obtained by the Observer, allow local officers who’ve received federal training to ‘perform certain functions of an immigration officer.’ Specifically, these functions include the power to ‘interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or remain in the United States’; arrest without a warrant anyone the officer believes ‘is in the United States in violation of law and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained’; execute warrants for immigration violations; and prepare immigration charging documents.” [Texas Observer]
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I see one ray of sunshine in all of this firings,is that Emperor and Empress Trump have fired the institutional memory.
A bureaucracy works because there are people in the bureaucracy that know how it works, where to go, who to send a memo to, how to pay for something. who to call, who does what.
In the military there are technical training courses for officers and enlisted, who learn the manuals and procedures needed to say move a tank, or move a platoon or move a division.
By firing hundreds of thousands, Musk is purging the "deep state" or the institutional knowledge needed to get things done.
He may want to hire Eric Prince, and deputize sheriff's and police departments, but there are legal contracts to be signed, money to be appropriated, and payments to be made, vouchers filled out and submitted, paperwork, policies and procedures
In the same way you don't put up a sign, open a restaurant and walk out into the street and hire your staff, or even your family.
I served two years as a traffic management officer, moving material is a complicated process., as is requisitioning. Even the requisitioning of bullets and payment for them is a complicated process.
If there is any chance of a saving grace, it is that Musk and Trump have cut off their own arms and legs, and the so called Deep State will collapse, into incompetence and nothing will get done.
You need a fuel source to run an engine, and the fuel source of the engine of government is people.
Ye ol militia working AGAINST THE PEOPLE FOR THE TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT BC HATE !!!