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Everything We Know About Eric Prince, Mastermind Behind The $25B Plan to Deport 12 Million Immigrants By 2026

The Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico (Credit: Don J. Usner/Image via santafenewmexican.com/Searchlight New Mexico)

Erik D. Prince, founder of the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater, considered the biggest private security firm in the world, is reportedly spearheading an initiative to have private efforts help carry out deportation efforts in the U.S.

The project, given to President Donald Trump's advisers before the inauguration, features several "processing camps" on military bases, a private fleet of planes and private citizens empowered to make arrests. It was first reported by Politico and it would have an estimated price tag of $25 billion, a fraction of what reports have shown deporting all undocumented people in the country would cost.

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