A major U.S. military and CIA contractor has been detaining dozens of migrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets, according to a new investigation by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Reveal learned about what some are calling the “black site” for migrant children after one local resident filmed children in sweatsuits being led into the building. The building was leased in March by MVM, a defense contractor that Reveal reports has received nearly $250 million in contracts to transport immigrant children since 2014. (More at link)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/9/cia_linked_military_contractor_used_arizona
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carmencita ago
https://www.revealnews.org/article/defense-contractor-detained-migrant-kids-in-vacant-phoenix-office-building/ Video Included
A cellphone video shows immigrant children being led into a vacant office building in Phoenix. The defense contractor leasing the building, MVM Inc., claims publicly that it does not operate “shelters or any other type of housing for minors.”
The building was leased in March by MVM, a Virginia-based defense contractor that has received contracts worth up to $248 million to transport immigrant children since 2014, records show. The company, which once provided guards for CIA facilities in Iraq, was founded by three former Secret Service agents. One of its vice presidents is a former CIA special agent and former acting director of the U.S. Marshals Service.
Since MVM claims they do not operate any type of housing for immigrant children, and they have leased the building, then why are children being taken into the building.
Asked whether the children were kept there overnight, the spokesperson said the building is intended to hold them for a few hours before flights but was unsure how long children actually ended up staying.
So this evidently may be a temporary housing stopover while children are united with their parents or guardians. Idk what the truth is here. Could this be an attempt at blaming Trump and Sessions? It says MVM signed the contract a month before Sessions took office. There could be some shady stuff going on here.
fogdryer ago
We have been sleeping far too long .....
carmencita ago
Yes, and the sad thing is that some never will wake up unless it all comes crashing down at once. They are in a trance. Filling their bellies with Craft Beer.