Mass Deportation: Congress' Newest Money Laundering Scheme
The Ask for an Additional $175 billion for Immigration enforcement, ICE agents, Detention Beds and other Resources is not about National Security.
The Border Czar is asking for an additional $175 billion for immigration enforcement, including ICE agents, detention beds and deportation resources.
Let me reintroduce you to America’s taxpayer-funded, corporate-backed, no-bid contracted, industrial-scale prison machine designed to make rich people richer while locking up brown people for profit.1 All while the price of your cauliflower goes up.
Nothing about this is about national security or border integrity—this is about laundering taxpayer money while pretending to give a shit. And the looters are private prison executives, shady contractors, and every politician with a hand outstretched like a televangelist at a megachurch.
Here is the friendly definition for the terms you will hear in the next year:
No-Bid Contracts: The Government’s Favorite Ponzi Scheme - cutting fat checks to corporations who wouldn’t last five minutes in a competitive bidding process. GEO Group, CoreCivic, and fly-by-night security firms are already polishing their private jets in anticipation of their new cash injection.2
Expect detention centers with billion-dollar price tags, third-world conditions, and “cost overruns” that will overrun into executive bonuses.
Detention Centers: The New Private Equity Goldmine. Locking up under-represented noncitizens will keep those stock prices soaring. Detention Centers will be Airbnbs for ICE, except the guests won’t leave, and taxpayers will be invoiced.
Meanwhile, GEO Group and CoreCivic investors will be doing lines in their boardroom, before attending their corporate Whitney Museum Private showing while celebrating their “best quarter ever.”3Deportation Resources: Invoicing Tax Dollars While Pretending to Work. ICE gets a budget increase more private contractors billing the government $10,000 a day for work that could be done by a traffic cop and a clipboard. Expect overpriced deportation flights and unnecessary overtime pay.4
The Money Laundering Machine:
Step 1: Taxpayer dollars are funneled into overpriced, no-bid contracts.
Step 2: Private contractors slash actual costs, and pocket the rest.
Step 3: They donate millions to politicians, ensuring the cycle continues indefinitely.
Step 4: The public gets sold the same “we’re securing the border” lie every election year, while nothing changes.
Step 2: Private contractors slash actual costs, and pocket the rest.
Step 3: They donate millions to politicians, ensuring the cycle continues indefinitely.
Step 4: The public gets sold the same “we’re securing the border” lie every election year, while nothing changes.
You will be paying for this. And you will be told that the real economic threat is undocumented farmworkers who pick your cauliflower for less than minimum wage—not the fact that a bunch of finance bros are siphoning your money faster than a crypto rug pull.
The Deportation Scheme is a multi-generational, industrial-strength, coke-fueled, tax-funded heist with a patriotic flag draped over it.
America: Privatized suffering is our brand of Economic Suffering.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-deportation-private-prison-companies-49a18e3e
Engineering and construction firm Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) released a press statement on January 24, 2006, that the company had been awarded a no-bid contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to support its ICE facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a one-year base period with four one-year options. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (2025, February 11).
In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement
https://www.barchart.com/story/news/29592771/geo-group-vs-corecivic-which-stock-is-a-better-buy
https://iq.govwin.com/neo/marketAnalysis/view/Department-of-Homeland-Security-FY-2025-Budget-Request-Highlights/7702?researchTypeId=1&researchMarket=#:~:text=DHS's%20proposed%20FY%202025%20budget%20provides%20$60.8B,annualized%20Continuing%20Resolution%20(CR)%20level%20of%2059.5B.