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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/15/mind-blowing-military-contractors-making-tens-millions-helping-trump-tear-families'Mind-Blowing': Military Contractors Making Tens of Millions Helping Trump Tear Families Apart
"I'm guessing that in MVM's mission statement, one of the central components isn't the care of refugee children."
by Julia Conley, staff writer
While outraged Americans across the country are calling their elected representatives and taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration's forcible separation of parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, intelligence and defense contractors are raking in millions thanks to the cruel practice.
According to reporting by the Daily Beast, the intelligence contractor MVM, Inc. won an $8 million five-year contract to "provide assistance" in detention centers for unaccompanied children, and has made $42.9 million in less than a year, transporting minors to centers in Texas.
Such facilities have become crowded with children in recent months, especially following the administration's unveiling of its new "zero tolerance" policy for undocumented immigrants who cross the southern border seeking asylumunder which adults are imprisoned while they await immigration trials and any children traveling with them are sent off to detention centers, sometimes thousands of miles away.
Previously, MVM worked with the CIA in the Iraq War, during which its employees were accused of "procuring and possessing unauthorized weapons and explosives." The company has also faced accusations of discrimination against employees who were Muslim and African-born.
"I'm guessing that in [MVM's] mission statement, one of the central components isn't the care of refugee children," immigration attorney Matthew Kolken told the Daily Beast. "It is mind-blowing that those types of industries would be even considered with respect to the care of children. They're not equipped to be able to do it. Would you want your child to be dropped off in their hands? I know I wouldn't."
Still, MVM as well as the defense contractor General Dynamics are rapidly hiring new employees to oversee the dozens of detention centers for children who have been taken from their parents or guardians after crossing the border.
Recently-advertised positions include compliance coordinators tasked with overseeing detention centers, youth care workers, and bilingual transport specialists.
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"It looks right now that the Trump administration's policies regarding immigration [are] proving to be a relatively lucrative area for private contractors," Neil Gordon, an investigator with the Project on Government Oversight, told the Daily Beast.
spinbaby
(15,095 posts)I suspect theyre hiring whoever is handy without checking to see if theyre child molesters or worse.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The brown shirts, who obey orders and are continuously brainwashed also.
Normal humans would not work 10 minutes in those concentration camps.
canetoad
(17,218 posts)Currently his son, Kevin P Marquez is CEO.
https://www.mvminc.com/about-us/who-we-are/
Dario O. Marquez, Jr.
Chairman, Co-Founder
Dario O. Marquez, Jr., began his law enforcement career in the Presidential Detail and Counterfeiting divisions of the U.S. Secret Service, serving with commendation under the Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations. He co-founded MVM, Inc. in 1979, and served as its Chief Executive Officer for over 30 years. Named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America by Hispanic Business Magazine, Mr. Marquez is a former Chairman of the Hispanic College Fund and has been an active supporter of the Hispanic Youth Foundation. He has served on the Virginia Secure Commonwealth Panel and the Virginia Commission on Military and National Security Facilities, has provided expert testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Terrorism, and has appeared as an industry commentator in both television and print media.
Hekate
(91,055 posts)Evil, evil bastards