#Noboa has said #Ecuador will not receive deported migrants of other nationalities but that it will always welcome citizens, & he criticized Venezuela's president for briefly rejecting flights of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States.
Noboa has also announced a "strategic alliance" w/ #ErikPrince - a prominent #Trump supporter & founder of private #military firm #Blackwater - to take on crime & narcoterrorism in the country of 17 million.
War-torn Congo has a deal for Trump: President Tshisekedi wants help kicking out rebels in exchange for access to minerals used by US high-tech firms through the US Sovereign Wealth Fund launched last month
President Tshisekedi is also in negotiations with Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince to help collect and secure taxes from mining operations
From yesterday - Ecuador's president Daniel Noboa, who is seeking re-election, has enlisted Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince as an ally in ‘war’ on crime
https://mastodon.social/@wendysiegelman/114151716970222892
And from a few weeks ago - story a plan circulated by a group led by Erik Prince - that had a plan to deport 12 million people, that called for ‘processing camps’ and private citizen ‘army’ and a blueprint that would cost $25 billion
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
How notorious military contractor Erik Prince maneuvered his way back inside Trump’s orbit
Behind paywall TLDR: Prince has pitched proposals to use private contractors for deportations, to combat terror groups abroad & secure mineral deposits.
Prince has powerful allies in Trump admin including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Per sources Prince is angling to join two key Defense advisory boards
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/erik-prince-return-maneuvered-inside-trump-orbit
Ecuador's president Daniel Noboa, who is seeking re-election, has enlisted Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince as an ally in ‘war’ on crime
Noboa announced on X "a strategic alliance to strengthen our capabilities in the fight against narco-terrorism and to protect our waters from illegal fishing"
"The blueprint — laid out in a 26-page document President Donald Trump’s advisers received before the inauguration — carries an estimated price tag of $25 billion and recommends a range of aggressive tactics to rapidly deport 12 million people before the 2026 midterms, including some that would likely face legal and operational challenges, according to a copy obtained by POLITICO."
"A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has 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."
~ Dasha Burns and Myah Ward
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ErikPrince
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
The group, which includes some former #immigration ofcls, is led by #ErikPrince, who has close ties to #Trump, & Bill Mathews, the fmr COO of #Blackwater, the military contractor known for its *role* [#WarCrimes] in providing security, training & logistical support to #US forces in #Iraq & #Afghanistan during the war on terror.
A group of private #MilitaryContractors have pitched an army of private citizens to arrest #immigrants & camps to detain them [#ConcentrationCamps]….
The group, which includes fmr #Blackwater founder #ErikPrince & fmr #military & law enforcement ofcls, submitted a 26-pg blueprint to #Trump advisers before his inauguration, estimating a $25B price tag to support Trump’s “#MassDeportation operation” to swiftly remove 12M people from the US by 2026.
#MilitaryContractors linked to controversial #Blackwater want civilian army & *detention camps* [#ConcentrationCamps] to run #Trump’s #MassDeportation plans
#CivilRights groups condemn ‘industrial-scale human suffering’ proposed by #ErikPrince backed group
#immigration #law #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and private citizen ‘army’
The group is led by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, blueprint would cost $25 billion, recommends aggressive tactics to deport 12 million people by 2026 midterms
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
well this toot blew up lol... i guess one thing i take away from it is the extent to which "character is destiny" and how the character of the #Nazi regime was painfully obvious to people of good faith even from its first moments (to that end I also recommend Dorothy Thompson's 1941 essay "Who Goes Nazi?").
unfortunately while there are dissimilarities between that crew and trump's, e.g. the glorification of war, it's also true that there are a lot of scary war loving fascists on team #Trump. Ken Silverstein managed to get a hold of a private group chat featuring a lot of these folks earlier this year. Who was in the chat:
- #ErikPrince (#IraqWar Blackwater massacre guy)
- #KimberlyGuilfoyle (Don Jr's gf)
- #MichaelFlynn
- #NRA guys
- #AfD guys
- #TuckerCarlson
- Israeli intel
- Congressmen who resigned in various scandals
...and worse.
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash
