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The Haitian government has signed a contract with Trump Ally Erik Prince, the private military contractor who founded Blackwater, a company notorious for a civilian massacre in Iraq.

Prince is working with Haiti’s govt to conduct lethal operations against gangs

#ErikPrince #Haiti

nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/hait

A man walks past a burning barricade set up to protest a lack of security, in the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince in February.
The New York Times · Haiti Enlists Blackwater Founder and Trump Ally to Take on Criminal GangsBy David C. Adams
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#Haiti’s govt is awaiting the arrival of arms shipments & more personnel to step up its fight against the gangs.

American officials said they were aware of #ErikPrince’s work with Haiti’s govt. But the full terms of the Haitian govt’s arrangement w/Prince, including how much it is paying him, are unknown.

The #State Dept, which has provided millions of dollars in funding to equip & train Haiti’s National Police, said it is not paying Prince or his company for work in Haiti.

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#Haiti hired other US contractors, besides #ErikPrince, in recent months to work on a secret task force to deploy drones to kill gang members. Prince’s team has been operating drones since March, but has yet to announce a death or capture of a single high-value target.
#Security experts said Prince has also been scouting Haitian #American #military #veterans to hire & send to Port-au-Prince & expects to send up to 150 #mercenaries this summer. He recently shipped a large cache of #weapons there.

A Desperate #Haiti Turns to #ErikPrince, #Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs

Erik Prince, a private #military contractor & prominent supporter of Trump, is working w/Haiti’s govt to conduct #lethal operations against #gangs that are terrorizing the nation & threatening to take over its capital.

Prince, the founder of #Blackwater Worldwide, signed a contract to take on the criminal groups that have been killing civilians & seizing control of vast areas of territory.

nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/hait

A man walks past a burning barricade set up to protest a lack of security, in the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince in February.
The New York Times · Haiti Enlists Blackwater Founder and Trump Ally to Take on Criminal GangsBy David C. Adams

HT @wendysiegelman

"Trump EO 'Project Homecoming' says after 60 days #DHS will add 'no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have failed to depart voluntarily' - double the 10,000 agents Erik Prince had in his $25Bil proposal"

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

The White House · Establishing Project HomecomingOver the last 4 years, the United States has endured a full-scale invasion of aliens entering and remaining in the country illegally, causing a relentless

Michigan native #ErikPrince proposes #deportation plan to #ElSalvador, report says

By Justin Engel, Apr. 14, 2025

"Erik Prince, the former CEO of #Blackwater USA and a Michigan native, is among a group of defense contractors proposing to expand plans for deporting #immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, Politico reported.

"The pitch would attempt to avoid #legal challenges by designating part of the El Salvador prison system as #AmericanTerritory, the report stated.

" 'It’s unclear how seriously the White House is considering the plan by Prince, who has drawn scrutiny for his firm’s role in a deadly massacre in Iraq two decades ago,' the Politico report stated. 'But it would give Prince’s group an unprecedented and potentially highly lucrative role in an expanded version of a transnational operation that has elicited its own web of controversies, in part because it has swept up immigrants who do not have criminal records in the United States.'

"The report coincides with President Donald Trump’s plans to host #NayibBukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday, April 14.

"Since March, El Salvador has accepted from the U.S. more than 200 #Venezuelan immigrants — whom officials with President Donald Trump’s administration have accused of gang activity and violent crimes — and placed them inside the country’s notorious maximum-security gang prison. It is also holding a Maryland man who the administration admits was wrongly deported but has not been returned to the U.S., despite court orders to do so.

"Trump has ties to the family of Prince, an automotive supplier heir from Holland. Prince is the brother of #BetsyDeVos, the secretary of education during the first Trump administration.

"Prince, a major Republican donor, has been accused of acting as a back channel on behalf of Trump. As Trump was preparing to take office in 2017, Prince met with a official close to Russian President Vladimir #Putin in the #Seychelles, islands off the coast of east Africa. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation said the meeting was set up ahead of time with the knowledge of former White House aide #StephenBannon.

"Prince soared to notoriety after Blackwater USA employees in 2007 shot and killed #Iraqi #civilians in Baghdad’s #NisourSquare during the Iraq war, casting a light on the role played by private contractors in U.S. military operations overseas.

"In the wake of the scandal the company’s name was changed and Prince sold his shares to a private equity fund."

mlive.com/politics/2025/04/mic

#ErikPrinceColonialism #Blackwater #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #TripleCanopy #PrivateArmy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas #Project2025 #TigerSwan #Fascism
#Authoritarianism

mlive · Michigan native Erik Prince proposes deportation plan to El Salvador, report saysBy Justin Engel | jengel@mlive.com

Exclusive- #Trump supporter #ErikPrince reaches deal with #Congo to help secure [steal] mineral wealth

Jessica Donati and Sonia Rolley
Thu, April 17, 2025

Excerpt: "Democratic Republic of Congo has vast reserves of #copper, #cobalt, #lithium and #coltan - a mineral used widely in smartphones, computers and electric vehicles - but has been plagued for decades by violence in its eastern region.

"The agreement between Congo and Prince initially involved a plan to deploy contractors to Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and the largest city in eastern Congo. But Goma is now under M23 control and that plan has been put on hold. M23 controls tracts of mineral-rich territory.

"A source close to the Congolese government told Reuters an initial deployment of Prince's advisers was expected to start in the south, far from the area controlled by #M23 and its allies.

" 'If you just look at Katanga, if you look at Kolwezi down just off the Zambian-Congo border, they claim that there's like $40 million a month in lost revenue of what's going out and what's coming in,' the source said.

"A diplomatic source also told Reuters the first stage of Prince's effort in Congo would focus on securing mines and tax revenues in copper-producing Katanga province.

"One of the sources close to Prince said advisers were expected to deploy with technical experts from a company specialised in testing and inspecting commodities. The advisers would initially target larger mines and expand as revenue collection improved.

"The source did not provide details on how the advisers would tackle corruption in the sector that has long drained revenue that would otherwise flow to the state.

"A source in the office of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said an agreement in principle had been signed with Prince, but the details on where and how many advisers would be deployed remained to be established."

aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-s

#ErikPrinceColonialism
#PrivateArmy #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal
#TripleCanopy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas
#Project2025 #TigerSwan #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Colonialism #Mining #Pollution #Genocide #Corruption #CopperMining #MiningPollution #CorporateColonialism

AOL · Exclusive-Trump supporter Prince reaches deal with Congo to help secure mineral wealthBy Jessica Donati and Sonia Rolley

#ErikPrince: Private sector can help with #MassDeportations

Leland Vittert
Tue, February 25, 2025

"Erik Prince, founder of the former security contractor #Blackwater, denied proposing a 'private army' for mass deportations and instead described a logistics plan to help the #Trump administration fulfill its immigration goals.

" 'This is not some idea of a private army,' Prince said Tuesday on NewsNation’s On Balance. 'It was a memo generated to describe how to achieve the logistics necessary to move the millions of people that they intend to deport.'

"Prince pushed back against a Politico report that described a plan circulated among Trump allies calling for 'processing camps' and a private citizen force to carry out deportations.

"He said that the memo outlines how to accomplish mass deportations 'in a #legal, #ethical manner” with necessary #DueProcess. [WHAT A JOKE!!!]

" 'If people think it’s a huge number, think about how we’ve been invaded. We’ve had millions of people float into the country illegally, actually paying the cartels to smuggle them in,' Prince said.

"According to the Politico report, Prince and other contractors submitted a 26-page proposal before Trump’s inauguration that included using private aircraft, 'processing camps' on military bases, and deputizing private citizens to make arrests.

"The plan reportedly carries a $25 billion price tag to deport 12 million people before the 2026 midterms.

"Prince suggested the government would eventually need the private sector to help achieve Trump’s immigration goals, noting that deportation flights 'for years, even when other administrations are doing it, were largely contractor managed and operated.'

Source:
yahoo.com/news/erik-prince-pri

Yahoo News · Erik Prince: Private sector can help with mass deportationsBy Leland Vittert

Trump supporter Erik Prince reaches deal with Congo to help secure mineral wealth

Prince agreed to help the Democratic Republic of Congo secure and tax its vast mineral wealth - as the Trump administration is exploring a deal with the DRC on minerals and security partnership

#ErikPrince #DRC #Congo #Trump

marketscreener.com/news/latest

MarketScreener · Exclusive-Trump supporter Prince reaches deal with Congo to help secure mineral wealthBy Reuters

Kooky press conference in White House where Administration puppets perform for reality tv cameras to violate court orders, insulting reporters and deferring to criminal heads of state who are seeking to incarcerate US citizens and residents in El Salvador prisons (and others?). Analysis by Nayna Gupta, policy director of American Immigration Institute, and Journalist Jose Olivares
#Bukele #ErikPrince #ElSalvador #MS13 #KilmarAbregoGarcia #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcia
democracynow.org/2025/4/15/nay

Democracy Now! · Trump Weighs Expelling U.S. Citizens as Salvadoran Pres. Says He Won’t Return Wrongfully Removed ManBy Democracy Now!

Noting that the ghoul and war profiteer Erik Prince wants to cash in on Trump's attacks on immigrants by vastly expanding deportations and moving deported persons to a prison or prisons in Central American, Jim Stewartson says,

"El Salvador was also the first nation to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021. Note this confluence of the PayPal Mafia and Erik Prince is not a coincidence."

#Trump #ElSalvador #ErikPrince #PeterThiel #bitcoin #immigration
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mind-war.com/p/bukele-modeling

www.mind-war.comBukele: Modeling the North American ReichZoom today, Sunday, Noon PT / 3PM ET

Trump administration prepares to send more deported migrants to notorious El Salvador prison

Erik Prince wants in on the action

Prince - who is gaining traction in the second Trump administration - has pitched a plan to set up a US-run immigrant detention facility in El Salvador

#ErikPrince #Prince #ElSalvador #Trump

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/09/pol

CNN · Trump administration prepares to send more deported migrants to notorious El Salvador prisonBy Priscilla Alvarez