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From FB. Surprised this hasn't already made it's way to DU. Searched but couldn't find it.
I'm so disgusted.
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From Emily Price:
I decided to do a little research into the $750/day figure Id heard a private company was charging the US government per each detained migrant child. I wanted to, with my own eyes and brain, 1. verify this figure was accurate; 2. verify it was indeed a private company instead of a non-profit charging this, if true, as both have managed these detention centers (not that it really matters, ultimately, but stay with me); 3. try to figure out where this per diem sum more than my monthly mortgage was going, if not to even buy these tortured children toothbrushes and soap, which are about the cheapest basic necessities on the market, and which no individual has to replace every day.
$750/person A DAY should cover a lot of necessities, right? Right. So where the hell is all this money going? This cant be true...
Well heres what I found:
1. Yes, its a private company called Comprehensive Health Services (a subsidiary of Caliburn International). CHS operates the largest child migrant detention center, which is in FL and was already getting horrible press especially from local FL papers last year. But that didnt matter, because CHS recently opened up a few more child prisons in TX, as it snagged a new government contract, despite many documented concerns about conditions there.
2. $750/day per child is an accurate sum of CHSs CLAIMED operating costs, and what our federal tax dollars are paying for. A sum that was agreed to upon award of the contract. In fact, it was actually on the record as $775 last summer.
3. So where is this money going, you wonder, if not to soap and toothbrushes? Yeah, I did too, and it was quite easy to dig up. CHS, via Caliburn, is controlled by the private equity firm DC Capital Partners. For those of you who dont know how private equity firms work, look it up, or ask me in the comments.
4. While I would not be able to find out vested shareholders in the DCCP portfolio, we do not have to assume theyre making some nice returns on these CHS operations and government contracts that line their pockets instead of covering even basic human needs for children. Thats clear, because why would a private company keep their costs down so low that they completely disregard humanity, even though they say theyre experts in healthcare?
PROFIT. FOR THEIR PRIVATE INVESTORS.
5. While I cant name for you the private investors getting rich off of this humanitarian crisis, I can name for you members of the advisory board of DCCP, which approves everything in the portfolio.
First up: Trumps former Chief of Staff, John Kelly, who was named to the board LAST MONTH, and photographed riding a golf cart into a CHS child prison. So with his own eyes, he saw the conditions there. And he was cool with it all, because hey, theres money to be made for his rich investor friends, and maybe even himself! Who knows! Cant say for sure, so feel free to reasonably assume what you wish. Im just stating facts here.
Coincidentally, prior to joining Trump in the WH, he was also a paid lobbyist for DCCP. Hmmmm...
6. So next up on the DCCP board: Richard L. Armitage, former U.S. deputy secretary of state; Michael Corbin; former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates; Michael V. Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and of the National Security Agency; Donald M. Kerr Jr., former deputy director of science and technology at the CIA; Anthony C. Zinni, former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command and former U.S. Envoy to the Middle East; and Stephen F. Loftus, former director of the Office of the Budget for the United States Navy.
Are yall seeing any patterns here?
7. Michael Hayden, last June, said on the record he sees commonality between Nazi Germanys separation of children at concentration camps and the Trump administration policy that is forcing children to be separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"I know were not Nazi Germany, alright. But there is a commonality there, and a fear on my part ... We have standards we have to live up to, Hayden told CNNs New Day.
It appears he left those standards at the boardroom door, along with many other individuals that dance with greed and corruption on the line of the private and public sectors COMPLETELY UNCHECKED.
8. Last month, the same month Kelly got his new gig, the government awarded CHS a brand new, hush-hush contract worth $341 million, even though there had been tons of pressure to close it due to its conditions.
THERE WAS NO COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR THE CONTRACT, and it happened under the radar.
9. Just two months before this, in March, CHS/Caliburn cancelled its IPO after registering with the SEC to sell $100m public shares. The CEO cited market forces, yet made it clear the company was thriving and growing.
Ill leave you to come to your own conclusions about all of this, or do more research. And Ill post a ton of sources in the comments for those who actually think this administration is draining the swamp, or who want to debate the semantics of whether these centers can reasonably be called child concentration camps or not without offending some non-brown people.
And for those of you who think children dont deserve the most basic human rights because theyre not American: Theres a special place in hell for you, and I imagine hell to be a whole lot like this situation.
For those of you who are cool lining the pockets of private citizens in DC with YOUR tax dollars while dirty, hungry, sick children live imprisoned and stacked in cages without even a dime of your money going to pay for soap and toothbrushes for these kids like it was supposed to: Im ashamed to share this country with you as legal citizens, and I think youre disgustingly dumb. We failed you, too, but at least you got to go to school when you were a kid, and didnt spend childhood dying in a cage.
America, NONE OF THIS IS OK. WAKE UP.
FRIDAY NIGHT UPDATE (!!)
1. As mentioned upon writing this, I originally posted my sources at the beginning of the comments thread at time of publishing -- before it became a large discussion. For your convenience and further reading, I am now moving my sources here + some extra homework for everyone to do (no particular order):
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/CLBR:US
https://www.miamiherald.com/
/immigra
/article229744049.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/
/john-kelly-joins-board-of-calibu
/
https://news.littlesis.org/
/wall-street-banks-former-defe
/
https://thehill.com/
/392727-hayden-sees-commonality-betwee
https://www.npr.org/
/florida-shelter-is-scrutinized-for-th
https://www.nytimes.com/
/migrant-shelters-border-crossing.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/caliburn-international/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-is-investigating-whether-
https://thebaffler.com/
/retirement-brought-to-you-by-priso
https://www.floridatoday.com/
/cape-canaveral-de
/717375002/
https://www.chsmedical.com/compliance
The people have spoken, so hope that helps you all wrap your minds around this in a more complete and credible way. Thank you to all who have participated in civil dialogue and shared this post. Let's keep it constructive, as we do not need to be even more destructive than the current situation.
2. THE POST IS ALREADY PUBLIC + SHAREABLE. Please do not ask me if you can share it -- I made it public, which is why you can see it. You should be able to share the original version. If you can't, refresh your app, run your updates or make sure you aren't still viewing a friend's protected share of the original itself. There is no possible way I can instruct all individuals on how to share it -- but I appreciate all of you who are moved by these words, and want to raise awareness about this distressing situation.
3. Your concern has given me hope. Do your homework. Look into your group investment portfolios, pensions, etc. Know where your money is invested. Call your legislators. Do anything but freak out to the point of being unproductive and histrionic. DO ANYTHING BUT BE AWFUL TO EACH OTHER.
Thank you. We are in this together.
Me.
(35,454 posts)thank you
it is a for profit business...and they are pocketing money hand over fist
Me.
(35,454 posts)Bank of America, Wayfair, Join those Saying "No" To Profiting From Family Detention
Bank of America is the third major US bank to pull out of the private prison industry.
Bank of America Corp. the USs second largest financial institution and lead lender to CoreCivic made a milestone announcement this morning that they will stop financing private prison and immigrant detention companies. This follows the lead of JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, who exited the sector earlier this year on the heels of mass public pressure from grassroots activists, shareholders, investors, and political leaders under the rallying call of #FamiliesBelongTogether. We have decided to exit the relationship said BofA Vice Chairman Anne Finucane in a statement to Bloomberg today. Weve done our due diligence that we said we would do at the annual meeting, and this is the decision weve made.
Beyond financing GEO Group and CoreCivic the most recognizable names in the private prison game documents filed in August with the Securities and Exchange Commission demonstrate that Bank of America provided a $380 million loan to Caliburn, as well as a $75 million revolving credit line. You may recognize the name Caliburn from recent headlines; they run the Homestead, Florida detention center under a U.S. government contract thats making $750 per child detainee, per day.
This decision comes during a week of particularly heightened attention to the migrant crisis at our southern border. Many have winced at the image circulating social media of a Salvadoran father and daughter 25-year old Oscar Alerto Martinez Ramirez and 2-year old Angie Valeria who drowned trying to enter the US with hopes of a better life. Exposure of poor conditions in detention centers and the graphic treatment of migrant children has sparked debate and outrage in the US (and beyond) about the ways in which we not only allow but actually profit from the suffering of asylum seekers. 70% of immigrant detainees are now held in privately-owned facilities, meaning 70% of immigrant detainees are held in facilities with a clear-as-day financial incentive to lock up as many people as possible.
With such harrowing statistics, we cannot accept anything less than an end to financing an industry profiting off the pain and suffering of children and families, stated an official statement by the Families Belong Together Corporate Accountability Coalition. As broken down in previous articles, private prisons rely on big-name bank financing to conduct day to day operations, so BofAs role as the third domino to fall can have significant consequences on the industry's viability. ©2019 Forbes Media LLC. All Rights Reserved.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2019/06/26/bank-of-america-wayfair-join-those-saying-no-to-profiting-from-family-detention/#433542925620
dlk
(11,578 posts)Thats the best part of the privatization scam-no oversight.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)some of it is drifting into Trump's bank account as well. Remember, Trump doesn't take a dump in the morning without getting paid - in some fashion - for all of his "hard work". This is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history.
dlk
(11,578 posts)Shanti Mama
(1,288 posts)If anyone wants to find out who Emily Price is and share the info, I'm all for it.
2naSalit
(86,794 posts)I wondered if this was her. I guess you're sure?
nghc
(1 post)Runningdawg
(4,522 posts)You didn't really think he raised 24 million in 24 hours did you?
watoos
(7,142 posts)This corporation gets a no bid contract, how much money did it give Trump for "campaign contributions?"
Taxpayer dollars going to fund concentration camps and funneled into Trump's pocket.
dchill
(38,539 posts)...of campaign contributors? I mean, they've donated their entire stipend. Right?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)profiteering off misery - there's your stinking republican values.
iluvtennis
(19,874 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)These children are being treated worse than prisoners and a bunch of slimy, grifting republicans are getting rich off of their misery! Arghhhhhh! I just want to scream! Where is the sanity in this world?
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)I want to see arrests.
alwaysinasnit
(5,075 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)Even a lot of MAGATs would open their eyes to this...well, maybe a few
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)spanone
(135,880 posts)John Kelly's new role on a detention center board set off ethics concerns that he may be profiting from the child separation policy he pushed
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-kelly-new-role-will-profit-from-child-separation-policy-2019-5
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)ancianita
(36,137 posts)The American equity firm DC Capital Partners LLC has, in two quick moves, hired a former head of the CIAs National Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez (IOL 579) and snapped up Multi-Threaded Inc., a small group specializing in unstructured data management. Multi-Threaded has been incorporated into the DC Capital holding company that encompasses all of its intelligence assets, the National Interest Security Company (NISC, see graph below).
At the same time, DC Capital is putting together a new holding company specializing in security, training and logistics. Named Elite Training & Security, LLC, its center-piece will be made up by the Kaseman LLC group. A regular supplier of the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, Kaseman furnishes anti-terrorist services and sees to the construction of secure buildings (embassies), notably in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Indonesia and Colombia. DC Capital is planning other acquisitions in the sector and briefly thought of buying out Triple Canopy (IOL 566).
https://blosint.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/from-intelligence-to-private-security-dc-capital-partners/
If this group "supplies" security to our embassies in the above countries -- Thereby surround our intelligence agencies -- we'd better tighten up our oversight of how they "use" our embassies.
https://blosint.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/from-intelligence-to-private-security-dc-capital-partners/
This is not just encroachment, but that actual establishment of fascist government, with our three branches operating in ignorance of how this private network works for its own ends.
Where this $750 per day goes -- this cannot stand.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Y'all know what this means, I assume....
ancianita
(36,137 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Is that General Eric Shinseki (US Army) ???
Weren't members of his family placed in an internment camp ???
Fuck me blind, I no longer understand any of this . . .
ancianita
(36,137 posts)Fuck me blind, too.
ancianita
(36,137 posts)Response to Shanti Mama (Original post)
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SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I was floored when I heard how much they were charging per day as well. On MSNBC they said they could get the children rooms at The Four Seasons for less per day. I just didn't have the time to do all of the investigative work necessary to find all of these facts. I'm glad Ms. Price did. A BIG round of applause for Ms. Price!
SunSeeker
(51,712 posts)Mendocino
(7,509 posts)Grifters gotta grift.
TheFarseer
(9,326 posts)Then I would guess the same place the sears and toys r us money went- consulting fees and interest paid to some rich douche bag.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)to work directly with the children, or wouldn't they be asking for more supplies, better food and some of them blowing the whistle?
They must have very little overhead. They can't even keep track of the children or provide them with the basic necessities or halfway decent food.
There are many privatized prisons now, too, wonder what conditions in those are like - probably better than this.
That is an obscene amount of money per child to leave them in the conditions that have been observed.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)To the press. Patrick Fitzgerald knew this within days of starting his 2 year investigation into who leaked her identity, but never even brought charges against him.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)Kelly first
ancianita
(36,137 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)patphil
(6,212 posts)I think you should all do the same.
Patrick Phillips
PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)urging that they share it with as many people as possible, and that they will call their US Senators and Representative daily about this despicable, sociopathic, illegal situation until they have taken concrete steps to 1) give these kids adequate supplies, 2) reunite them with their families, 3) hold the criminals responsible accountable.
forgotmylogin
(7,531 posts)I make $750 a paycheck ( for two weeks) at my job. $750 is more than my monthly rent!
For that kind of money, the government could rent the townhouses in my apartment complex I don't even qualify for and house children there.
You'd think the government would want to process kids out of concrete-floor cages ASAP for that kind of money.
Shoonra
(523 posts)Compared to $750 to have children sleep on the concrete floors, without blankets or soap or showers or clean clothes, I did a little checking and Trivago tells me there are hundreds of places that would put up the kids (and also adults) for as little as $195 a night - and provide them with a bed, with clean sheets and blankets, a shower and soap, and even access to a laundrette to clean their clothes.
Of course, the Federal Prison in Texas would also provide inmates - most, unlike these kids, have committed dreadful crimes - with a bed and blanket, access to shower and soap and also laundry service.
Going back 80 years, the Nazi slave labor camps provided inmates with regular changes of clothes and access to washing up; the Nazis were very attentive to personal hygiene.
FakeNoose
(32,767 posts)Pretty much like the Russian version, but they're trying to keep it secret for a few more years.
Thanks all this hard work, and thanks for reporting.
Lotus54
(44 posts)This important post should be circulated far and wide. You should also send your important research to the News Editors/Journalists: WAPO, NEW YORK TIMES, HuffPost, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC.
Thank you so very much for your effort.
Below are some links I've gathered about this company:
https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/caliburn-international/
https://www.axios.com/homestead-private-equity-migrant-children-camps-55512adf-a64c-480e-b516-b6d836f0e2ea.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kelly-joins-board-of-caliburn-international-company-operating-largest-unaccompanied-migrant-children-shelter/
Shanti Mama
(1,288 posts)I saw it on FB. It has been shared there a lot.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)pazzyanne
(6,557 posts)I have been sharing the $775 information and what services are not being provided the children, as well as comparing it to the $82 per day for incarcerated prisoners and what services they get. I have also been throwing in the fact that these children could be put up in a 4 star motel with services that include laundry, a breakfast, and that the money left over could be used for diapers, clothes, additional meals, etc. My blood boils every time I read something about these poor children. An aside question is "Where are the girls?" Every time someone from the administration talks about human trafficking, this question is front and center in my mind. John Kelly and the board of directions can go straight to hell as far as I am concerned. Rant now over.
bucolic_frolic
(43,295 posts)you know, $50,000 per linear foot.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)Instead we are busy not holding impeachment hearings.
reACTIONary
(5,777 posts)....... Not for permanent detention facilities. Permanent facilities are around 250 A day. Adult detention is aroun 100.
The reason for the high cost, the official and several former officials told NBC News, is that the sudden urgency to bring in security, air conditioning, medical workers and other government contractors far surpasses the cost for structures that are routinely staffed.
It costs $256 per person per night to hold children in permanent HHS facilities like Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas. And keeping children with their parents in detention centers like the one run by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement in Dilley, Texas cost $298 per resident per night, according to an agency estimate when it awarded the contract for the facility in 2014.
At those prices, the additional cost to operate a 400-bed temporary structure for one month at capacity would be more than $5 million. The average stay for separated kids is nearly two months.
Quoted, with other useful links, in
https://www.truthorfiction.com/does-it-cost-750-a-day-to-house-migrant-children-in-camps/
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)of the Nuremberg Trials. These people are guilt of crimes against humanity
RainCaster
(10,916 posts)And I get soap and a tooth brush and a shower and a bed. Bottled water, and a bunch of other shit. So what moron negotiated this deal? Somebody who doesn't know anything about hotels is my guess.
leftstreet
(36,113 posts)citizen blues
(570 posts)If you have not seen this documentary, watch it!!! This post shook me because of what Raul Hilberg says in that documentary at a conference on evil. Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of the European Jew, has long been considered one of the world's leading authoritioes on the Holocaust. Here's a transcript: Facing Evil
In this documentary, Hilberg discusses who perpetrated the Holocaust:
Ive always believed it was a vast bureaucracy. One cannot destroy a people; its not possible without employing all the institutions that a society has...
But who were these initiators, these innovators, these bureaucrats? They were very well-educated. Let me give just three groups: the lawyers, the soldiers, and the physicians...
Oh, yes, who did it? The professionals. Did they know what they were doing? Of course. They thought about it.
Look who's mentioned above on the board:
1. Military Former Chief of Staff, John Kelly, - Military
2. Lawyer - Richard L. Armitage, former U.S. deputy secretary of state
3. Bureaucrat - Michael Corbin; former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
4. Military - Michael V. Hayden, former director of the CIA and of the NSA
5. Science - Donald M. Kerr Jr., former deputy director of science & tech. at the CIA
6. Military - Anthony C. Zinni, former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command and former U.S. Envoy to the Middle East
7. Military - Stephen F. Loftus, former director of the Office of the Budget for the US Navy.
8. Health Comprehencive Health Services
These are professionals purposefully and deliberately weaponizing our institutions.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)The Super connected elite making money off those in need. It's 'disaster capitalism' at it's best!
I don't want to see Hayden's ass on any more news outlets as a hired commentator.