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DoomsdaysCWMichigan native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> proposes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportation</a> plan to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElSalvador</a>, report saysBy Justin Engel, Apr. 14, 2025"Erik Prince, the former CEO of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> USA and a Michigan native, is among a group of defense contractors proposing to expand plans for deporting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> to a prison in El Salvador, Politico reported."The pitch would attempt to avoid <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> challenges by designating part of the El Salvador prison system as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanTerritory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanTerritory</a>, 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NayibBukele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NayibBukele</a>, 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Venezuelan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Venezuelan</a> 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BetsyDeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BetsyDeVos</a>, 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seychelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seychelles</a>, 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StephenBannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StephenBannon</a>."Prince soared to notoriety after Blackwater USA employees in 2007 shot and killed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iraqi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#civilians</a> in Baghdad’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NisourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NisourSquare</a> 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."<a href="https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/04/michigan-native-erik-prince-proposes-deportation-plan-to-el-salvador-report-says.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/04/michigan-native-erik-prince-proposes-deportation-plan-to-el-salvador-report-says.html</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleCanopy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectVeritas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProjectVeritas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a>

DoomsdaysCW2020: Shock And Dismay After <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Pardons <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> Guards Who Killed 14 Iraqi Civiliansby Laurel Wamsley December 23, 20205:44 PM ET"Among the pardons made by President Trump this week, the pardon of four former guards for Blackwater has been regarded by some as particularly galling."Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted six years ago in the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 17 others. Witnesses described how the American men ambushed the civilians unprovoked, firing on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Baghdad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baghdad</a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NisourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NisourSquare</a> with heavy gunfire and grenade launchers."The massacre took place in 2007, when the four were working as guards for Blackwater, a private military contractor, on an assignment in Baghdad. They claimed they were fired on, but prosecutors said the Blackwater guards opened fire first. Slatten, whom prosecutors said started the shooting, was sentenced to life in prison."<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949679837/shock-and-dismay-after-trump-pardons-blackwater-guards-who-killed-14-iraqi-civil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949679837/shock-and-dismay-after-trump-pardons-blackwater-guards-who-killed-14-iraqi-civil</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iraq</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarCrimes</a>

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