Erik Prince Wants to Build Trump’s Deportation Camps and Deploy A Vigilante Army to Separate Families—And Congress Might Pay for It

Washington, D.C. – A new report reveals that Donald Trump’s allies are circulating a proposal from notorious mercenary Erik Prince to build internment camps and mass deport millions using private civilian armies and a fleet of planes. The plan, which carries a $25 billion price tag, is just a fraction of the up to $350 billion that Trump is demanding in congressional budget resolutions—raising urgent concerns about what his extremist operatives could do with 14 times the funding requested for Prince’s plan. The proposal underscores the terrifying scale of Trump’s mass deportation agenda, which is expanding rapidly to target not just undocumented immigrants, but anyone who doesn’t fit his vision of America.

Statement from Beatriz Lopez, Co-Executive Director of the Immigration Hub:

“War profiteer Erik Prince, the same man infamous for spreading chaos and profiting off human suffering, is signing up to help carry out Trump’s mass deportation and family separation agenda. Simply put, this despicable plan will deploy mass internment, detention camps, and a civilian army to come after our neighbors, family and friends. At $25 billion, this cruel machinery would merely be the opening act in Trump and Stephen Miller’s $350 billion campaign of state-sanctioned ‘hunts’ for immigrant families. This initial investment in cruelty is just the blueprint—imagine the industrial-scale human suffering they plan to unleash with fourteen times these resources.

“We’re witnessing the deliberate transformation of everyday Americans—parents dropping children at school, healthcare workers saving lives, farmers feeding our nation—into targets who, if the Trump administration has it their way, could be hunted by an unaccountable militia motivated by profit and prejudice. As Trump expands the definition of who is ‘deportable,’ the circle of safety shrinks until it contains only those who share his extreme vision. Today immigrants, tomorrow anyone who opposes them. Our leaders face a defining choice: stand against this atrocity now, or be complicit in what history will remember as America’s darkest chapter.”

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