Friday, May 30th, 2025 (schwartzreport.net)
Author: Elizabeth Findell, Jack Gillum, Jemal R. Brinson, and Juanje Gómez
Source: Wall Street Journal
Publication Date: May 26, 2025 | 5:30 am ET
Link: The Billion-Dollar Business Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Stephan:
The fascist coup Trump and the Republican Party are trying to carry out, like all fascist coups, requires an “other”. A group of people, the racist, low IQ, low education members of their movement, can hate and focus their resentments against. For Hitler, it was the Jews. For Trump and the Republicans, it is immigrants. And, of course, in both cases, the “others” are mischaracterized. But what has stood out for me about the Trump coup is that it has also become a huge profit center for MAGAt oligarchs. Your tax dollars and mine, have been siphoned off to pay for the persecution of the “other” It is like vampires in the night biting the people of America in the neck and sucking out their blood. Here is an account of what is really going on and what it is costing us.
The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of migrants from the U.S. this year, including hundreds incarcerated in a high-security prison in El Salvador. Among them: 40-year-old Venezuelan Andry Blanco Bonilla.
Blanco’s imprisonment came after more than a year navigating America’s arcane immigration system. His story underscores how companies make money at nearly every step of the deportation process—earning more than $13 billion in the last decade, according to a Wall Street Journal review of contracts. Now, firms are expecting even greater revenue. Already spending this year has jumped 50% from last year.
The Journal traced Blanco’s journey, which took place over two presidential administrations. Here’s how dozens of companies cashed in:
Blanco’s removal process began in February 2024. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent noticed his tattoos at an immigration check-in in Dallas and accused him of being a gang member.
Blanco, who has no criminal record, was detained and sent 40 miles southwest to Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, operated by LaSalle Corrections. The government pays Prairieland about $17 […]
