Businesses Received Federal Contracts to Care for Migrant Children

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Source: Wall Street Journal

In the months before the Trump administration began its “zero-tolerance” policy that resulted in the separation of families at the Mexican border, the government awarded a flurry of contracts and grants to private companies and nonprofits to help run facilities for migrant children around the country.

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nonprofits-other-businesses-getting-millions-in-federal-contracts-to-care-for-migrant-children-1529596377?tesla=y&mod=article_inline

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Now I get it!

[kimbutgar]

1. Twitler campagin donors to his super pacs

[CountAllVotes]

2. Not subscribed

Not a subscribed member of th WaPo -- this is all that can be read w/o one:

In the months before the Trump administration began its “zero-tolerance” policy that resulted in the separation of families at the Mexican border, the government awarded a flurry of contracts and grants to private companies and nonprofits to help run facilities for migrant children around the country.

In Florida, the government gave Comprehensive Health Services Inc. $22 million in February to help operate a 500-bed shelter, and then in May, extended the contract by $8 million to make it a 1,000-bed shelter, according to government...

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Hmmm. Wonder if it was competitive bidding, or merely bidding amongst friendly donors?

government contracting is one of the oldest and most profitable enterprises

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. I think they were all no-bid contracts.

Shades of the Iraq War!

[Sunlei]

4. over a billion paid to 'Shiloh' in Manvel, Texas and they drugged and killed children

Migrant Children Drugged Without Consent At Government Centers, Court Documents Show

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/migrant-children-drugged-without-parental-consent-at-government-institutions-court-documents-show_us_5b2a9e87e4b0321a01cd4dd3

[Achilleaze]

5. this is a huge republican scam on taxpayers

not to mention the families they are brutalizing

[billpolonsky]

6. What's up with this America??

So let me get this straight.

In your country right now your government is funding businesses to handle "product" (which is children) that your government is providing?


The world is watching

[FreeState]

8. Can we get a list of business that are receiving money to do this?

I'd love to see a large scale boycott of all those involved.

[getagrip_already]

10. chances are....

These are shell companies formed just prior to the awards. Most you would not recognize. The owners will be hidden behind layers of corporate protection.

No large company would want their name associated with this. This is just a gop money laundering scheme.

[getagrip_already]

9. Profits from human rights violations.....

So we have an institutional policy of taking children and babies away from their parents, anonomizing them, and awarding no-bid contracts to unknown companies to jail them until they can be transitioned through adoption agencies (for profit) like the one owned by betsy devos brother.

And a third of the country is ok with that. Happy about it even. Deplorables. Every one.