NDLON BLASTS MASS-DEPORTATION PROPOSAL FROM EX-BLACKWATER MERCENARIES

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 – Politico reported today that it had found a 26-page document sent to the Trump Administration by a group of military contractors laying out a plan to arrest and deport 12 million immigrants in two years.

The group is led by the notorious mercenary Erik Prince and another top official of his company Blackwater, which massacred civilians in Baghdad during the Iraq war.

The plan proposes::

✓Deporting 500,000 people a month for two years.
✓Forming a national posse of 10,000 civilian immigrant hunters.
✓Creating a bounty program for cops to cash in on human cargo.
✓Building pop-up concentration camps on military installations around the country, and a deportation air force.
✓Throwing out every shred of constitutional due process and privacy protections for asylum seekers and other migrants.
✓Giving migrants show trials before their removals through “mass deportation hearings,” a term that doesn’t even pretend to sound like a fair judicial process.

The following is a statement from Chris Newman, Legal Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON):

“I guess we should give credit to Erik Prince, disgraced soldier-of-fortune and former boss of homicidal mercenaries. He and his war profiteers have made absolutely clear what President Trump’s war on immigrants portends. Their draft proposal, with its personnel numbers, staffing structure, organizational logistics and price tag, exposes the insanity, depravity, delusion and moral sickness behind all the MAGA talk of ‘fixing’ immigration once and for all.

“Immigrants have spent years raising the alarm about what ‘mass deportation’ really means. We’ve been told we are too strident, too alarmist. We have been told by our own purported allies in the Obama and Biden Administrations, and influential immigration-rights lobbyists, that we should make nice with Republicans and ‘lean in’ to enforcement-heavy policies for political advantage.

“Erik Prince obviously takes seriously what Trump says he wants to do. So do we. I guess we should thank him for making so clear the real-life dangers that lie ahead.”