Erik Prince Proposal for an American Gulag in El Salvador

[Anonymous]

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. This would turn deportations into a profit-making business. The kicker? The proposal also suggests "avoiding legal challenges by designating part of the prison as American territory."

"The proposal includes sample language for a “Treaty of Cession” so that a portion of the prison complex can become U.S. territory, arguing that “transferring a prisoner to such a facility would not be an Extradition nor a Deportation.” Once the land is owned by the U.S., the proposal says it will be leased back to El Salvador to run the prison complex and urges the Homeland Security secretary to “suspend the ICE detention standards” to avoid questions about detention standards established by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Bureau of Prisons."

Other concerning elements of the proposal:

*The group says it will need access to the government’s immigration files from law enforcement agencies to determine their immigration status, further entwining the private enterprise with government operations.

*Prince’s group also wants a role in the immigration courts, one of several elements of the proposal that would likely draw legal challenges.


Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208?lctg=136252390

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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. This would turn deportations into a profit-making business. The kicker? The proposal also suggests "avoiding legal challenges by designating part of the prison as American territory."

"The proposal includes sample language for a “Treaty of Cession” so that a portion of the prison complex can become U.S. territory, arguing that “transferring a prisoner to such a facility would not be an Extradition nor a Deportation.” Once the land is owned by the U.S., the proposal says it will be leased back to El Salvador to run the prison complex and urges the Homeland Security secretary to “suspend the ICE detention standards” to avoid questions about detention standards established by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Bureau of Prisons."

Other concerning elements of the proposal:

*The group says it will need access to the government’s immigration files from law enforcement agencies to determine their immigration status, further entwining the private enterprise with government operations.

*Prince’s group also wants a role in the immigration courts, one of several elements of the proposal that would likely draw legal challenges.


Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208?lctg=136252390

As long as Prince is imprisoned there first.

[Anonymous]

Just legally attach it to the embassy and staff it with FSOs. “Prison Screw” can be a new cone. Sure beats Consular.

[Anonymous]

Guantanamo Bay 2.0

[Anonymous]

Wtf.

[Anonymous]

So republicans don't want to give Americans prison jobs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So republicans don't want to give Americans prison jobs?

They want to give billionaires lucrative contracts.

[Anonymous]

The abject cruelty and greed of this administration astonishes me day after day. I feel like Pollyanna in my naïveté about how much of the world works. Yes, I know that’s privileged. Why are people so evil? It’s a question I’ve been thinking about lately.

[Anonymous]

Keep prison jobs in America, no outsourcing.

[Anonymous]

Time to end for-profit prisons.

[Anonymous]

Remember, Trump Henchmen:

Trump has immunity. You do not. You will be prosecuted for the crimes that you commit on Trump's behalf.

Don't think we aren't watching and keeping score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time to end for-profit prisons.

YES

[Anonymous]

Like, what is the endgame of this administration? Why do they want our country to become trash? We’re all just over here trying to mind our business, raise our kids, and watch Netflix, but they’re trying to turn us into Nazi Germany. Like, who manages to piss off *the Canadians*? Why are they sending people to Salvadoran gulags *at all*, let alone without due process? When do they look in the mirror and say “are we the baddies?”

[Anonymous]

Yes as above? What is the endgame. This is heading to Trump cray-cray manic land…

[Anonymous]

Let’s face it folks at some point he’s also going to try to remove US citizens to El Salvador not because they’ve committed a crime but because they’ve said things he doesn’t like.