Why Blackwater's shocking proposal to handle deportations should worry every American
Washington D.C.: According to a report in Politico, former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, along with other defense contractors, have approached the White House with a plan to expand deportations to El Salvador.
According to the report, the proposal laid out a plan to avoid legal challenges by designating part of the country's supermax prison as American territory.
It is understood that the group has had multiple talks with administration officials and may even be discussed during bilateral meetings with El Salvador at the White House next week
Who would govern this new 'US territory'?
Herein lies the rub, the proposal states that Prince would be in charge of the move and use his company to handle logistics. An LLC called 2USV was registered in Wyoming.
According to Politico, the proposal says Prince’s group, in partnership with El Salvador, will facilitate an operation that would handle the logistics of gathering “100,000 of the worst criminal offenders” from US prisons, holding them at a 10,000-person detention camp and flying them to El Salvador. The group says it will need access to the government’s immigration files from law enforcement agencies to determine their immigration status.
Prince’s group also reportedly wants a role in the immigration courts.
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What was the Nisour Square Massacre?
On September 16, 2007, Blackwater contractors opened fire in Baghdad's Nisour Square, killing 17 Iraqi civilians and injuring 20 more. The victims included women and children.
This event became a symbol of the lack of accountability for private military contractors. Blackwater claimed self-defense, but multiple investigations contradicted this.
Four Blackwater guards were tried in the US. One received a life sentence; three others got 30-year sentences. In December 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned all four men, sparking international condemnation, including from the U.N., Iraq, and human rights groups.