NOW

We are chin deep in MASSIVE corruption!

I believe they have been working on this for awhile and the contract run through 2022.

they didnt really game it all out from here in the real world.

Don't know about the others, but they probably did too, after negotiating the cuts for orange assface and the evil elf.

The mainstream cable m/broadcast and print media needs to highlight the evil nexus of private prisons and GOP policies aimed to spike demand for those prisons’ services.

Link to tweet

Bethany Adoption Agency's Senior Vice President for Child and Family Services is... Brian DeVos.

Optics and shit.

these children out of the goodness of their hearts. Who, seeing the DeVoses' involvement, can trust that?

Spectrum & Devos Family business were rewarded for electing Trump, actually they were just protecting their 'tender age investments'

Betsy got a job & what about brother Erik?

I want to know if any, & how much Erik Prince & his rogue militia have to do with I.C.E.

I'm betting there's a connect.
The Devos family along with Mercers played a big role in installing trump.

There's one of the answers.

I'll bet it does.


Uh, huh...



My ass

not to have an abortion.

adoption, and no doubt charges for pregnancy counseling also.

But they are also devout Protestant fundamentalists who are enemies of secular government, with its freedom of religion, and are working to "advance god's kingdom" in America.

Government funding of private Christian schools could be another line of income while also bringing converts to god.

Very few if any of these babies and children come from what the DeVoses would consider "true" religion. Most will be from Catholic families.

Did the DeVoses have anything to do with the disconnect of the records of thousands' of childrens from their parents'? That very, very peculiar action could only have been taken deliberately.

Some of it will lead back to Trump. He's not about to let something like this slip through his fingers.

Always better to have that if you pass it along.

Here are the businesses that have made millions off Trump’s child separation policy
Here are the businesses that have made millions off Trump’s child separation policy
[Photo: Flickr user Gage Skidmore]
BY MICHAEL GROTHAUS1 MINUTE READ
Separating scared and helpless children from their parents at the border is big business for some companies–and business has never been better. Yahoo News has identified five companies that are operating the shelters used to house the children taken in President Trump’s controversial child separation policy. They are:

Comprehensive Health Services Inc.: $65 million
Dynamic Service Solutions: $8.7 million
Southwest Key Programs: $1.8 million
Dynamic Educational Systems: $5.6 million
MVM: $9.5 million
As of Tuesday morning, 11,786 children were being held as part of the “unaccompanied alien children program,” Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Service’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF), told Yahoo News.
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I regularly get emails from fastcompany.com, a news site similar to huffingtonpost. I guess one can go to the site and then click "news".

In situations like that, I usually start my post with: From an email from ______.

Sorry to trouble you. I just like to have links for things I'd like to pass along to others.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-family-separation-policy-already-cost-millions/

very nice of you given the fact that my fingers aren't exactly broken.

IF your "fingers aren't exactly broken," you could have googled the OP's info and found the exact link from fastcompany.com!! I did.

What's with all your condescending sarcasm?! Rhetorical.

So, bye now. 🐦

I hope you're joking.

I can be VERY condescending and VERY sarcastic -- but that wasn't an example of either.

Drugging kids being held in prison, I'm sure at astronomical prices.

I bet there is some quid pro quo going on.

We should try to keep a running tally. I bet this is only the beginning. Opportunism is like rust, ants, termites, and black mold.

Check out this article:

How Private Contractors Enable Trump’s Cruelties at the Border
Private-prison groups and several Fortune 500 companies are profiting off “zero-tolerance” enforcement.
By David Dayen

Some of these companies were big donors to the Trump campaign.

Who (besides Betsy "Cruella" DeVille) are they linked to?

Someone needs to follow the money, the man-child seems to only come up with ideas that can possibly produce a profit for the family, I would not be surprised if the road would lead to them.

who will care for them?

There are kids who come across as legitimate unaccompanied minors. What about them?

there are just under 12K kids in the unaccompanied minor program. Several thousand are due to Trump's separation policy, but the remainder came over with no parents.

Again, I ask, what about them? Are we just not to provide healthcare, education, etc. for them too? Do you honestly think we didn't have those expenses and companies to provide those services under previous administrations?

Did you want to boycott those providers then?

Return the separated kids to their parents, definitely. But that still is going to leave a large population of kids that came here by themselves that need care.

Temporary foster placement through Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews, and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis via the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System Assessment.

This is already a program that's been happening in TX since the 90s when I was a CPS caseworker... and though even after privatization of the CPS system in 2000 when I left, it's yet still better than cages.

Granted, the cage-builders' boards of directors may not get the sweet, sweet kickbacks and profit margins that makes them delighted with caging kids, and it may seem more humane as well; so I get why a lot of people would have a knee-jerk problem with it.

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He's certainly not calling on congress to raise taxes to fund his policies, there's been no legislation to offset the costa, so he must be doing all this on credit, spending money like a Saudi prince, with no regard of the costs, the effectiveness or the outcomes.

The Unaccompanied Minor program is nothing new.

with no provisions to meet the costs from imprisoning the rising number of people now being swept into detention by Trump's new "Zero Tolerance" plan.

As are the companies providing the service.

That's my point when you start talking about boycotts. The separation policy has only been in place for a few months now. There would be incremental additional costs should that policy remains.

original remark.

You asked how Trump is paying for this. The dollars in the OP are for the existing UM program. We've been paying them for years.

But whatever. Carry on.

Depending on the "color of money", HHS's ORR department which is apparently handing out these contracts is probably sweeping up some of POM 2017/2018 CHIP funding that has been sitting unused due to the congressional attempts to turn this country into Galt's Gulch to pay for these contracts. Likewise, some of the previously appropriated DHS crime prevention funding that has gone idle because it's "too liberal" or an Obama DHS initiative is probably being shifted over to INS/ICE to pay for the family separation policy and ramp up on border crossing prosecution.

If the money sits in any one department for too long, it gets sent somewhere else in the agency by the end of the next review cycle.

Haele

Government funding is allocated for specific things, anything else would be defrauding the United States. There are volumes of laws against the mismanagement or needless expenditure of Government funds and people go to jail.

Agencies have a Use-It-or-Lose-It incentive to maintain their annual budget appropriations, which they do all the time, but they can't just dole that appropriation money out at will. If money is somehow illegally being reappropriated to other purposes or used to fund new programs or shore up different agencies without legislative or congressional knowledge then its potentially a crime that might include a cover up, fraud and abuse, or maybe its moving into secretive black ops territory.

Usually amounts under $50K at a time discretionary funding that can be moved around or released to another program using the same type of contract - sometimes within hours - by an SES and contracting officer.

It's on the borderline of legal; there was a major investigation a few years back when a major program ended up finding continuing funding as it was being wrangled over in Congress for almost 6 months that way - they ended up with just over $1 mil in sweep-up money across a particular contract vehicle that was popular with the many small RDT&A programs in that organization.

Over the years I've seen more than a few contracting officers prosecuted when they weren't careful how they navigated handling sweep-up and ceiling money. It's certainly not outside expectations that this administration will try to handle internal money like a corporation, and just pull funds they've left sitting, whether they've been allocated or not.

Haele

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Trump's Immigrant Child Detentions Mean $458 Million for Nonprofit


...The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data.

The nonprofit, Southwest Key Programs Inc., is to be paid more than $458 million in fiscal 2018, according to the data -- the most among the organizations, government agencies and companies that run a detention and care system for immigrant children on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services. Southwest Key has about a dozen facilities in Texas, including a site at a former WalMart Inc. store in Brownsville that has drawn attention from members of Congress and national news organizations...

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-06-19/trump-migrant-child-detentions-mean-458-million-for-nonprofit?__twitter_impression=true

Greedy corporations profitting off abuse of children.

The fundies will be running to these centers to brainwash them en masse.

Native American children who were taken away from their parents, losing their own religion, language, clothes, and hair. A shameful period in U.S. history.

"Indian Country remembers. This is not the first administration to order the forced separation of families."

"This tragic history is again public policy. And, as in previous public policy debates, the authorities rely on Christian scripture for their inhumane acts."

Good article, and up to date:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-06-19/indian-country-remembers-trauma-children-taken-their-parents

Thanks for posting this.

at Nuremberg trials.