‘The president added that he didn’t think it was necessary, and that he hadn’t read Erik Prince’s proposal.’– Politico
Politico is very slanted in its reporting, so one has to take the tone of the reporting with a grain of salt.
Former PMC Black Water chief Erik Prince comes up with a lot of ideas for Africa, China, the US, wherever, that appear extreme and are, well, just extreme. IMHO with some of the ideas and endevours he undertakes, he often doesn’t consider the ramifications or consequences and the variables involved.
President Trump doesn’t seem too taken with the Prince’s idea but prefers to use the military and law agencies already in place. From the report:
“I wouldn’t be opposed to it, necessarily, but I’d go to our military people, and I’d go to Tom Homan and Kristi [Noem] — I’d go to the various [people] and ask,” Trump said of his border czar and Homeland Security secretary. “But I don’t see it as being — we’re doing unbelievably and getting people out, getting criminals out.”
Personally, I don’t think it’s necessary for the US to hire PMSCs to carry out deportations and to manage detention camps, at least not yet.
See the Politico report ‘Trump appears open to using private forces to help deport millions of undocumented immigrants’ here: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/trump-private-forces-immigration-00206560
AND
LinkedIn link re Politico, ‘Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/royce-de-melo-39172813_trump-allies-circulate-mass-deportation-plan-activity-7300346661963280384-rGsP?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAALG3h0BmCuAbEV3iAYJNZHCQ1bHqD_qO9k
–RdM
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