Some Native Americans draw shocked response over contract to design immigration detention centers

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 11:13 AM EST, December 13, 2025


MAYETTA, Kan. (AP) — The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, whose ancestors were uprooted by the U.S. from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s, are facing outrage from fellow Native Americans over plans to profit from another forced removal: President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

A newly established tribal business entity quietly signed a nearly $30 million federal contract in October to come up with an early design for immigrant detention centers across the U.S. Amid the backlash, the tribe says it’s trying to get out of it.

Tribal leaders and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security haven’t responded to detailed questions about why the firm was selected for such a big contract without having to compete for the work as federal contracting normally requires. A former naval officer — who markets himself as the “go-to” adviser for tribes and affiliated companies seeking to land federal contracts — established the affiliate, KPB Services LLC, in April.

The criticism has been so intense that the 4,500-member tribe said it fired the economic development leaders who brokered the deal. “We are known across the nation now as traitors and treasonous to another race of people,” said Ray Rice, a 74-year-old who said he and other tribal members were blindsided. “We are brown and they’re brown.”

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Tribal leaders and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security haven’t responded to detailed questions about why the firm was selected for such a big contract without having to compete for the work as federal contracting normally requires.

That's because with the current federal contracting laws, the "forbidden DEI" groups have a "preference" - the #1 being "Alaska Native" (where contracts can be easily sole-sourced to their firms), and then the others lump in (minorities - including Native American, black-owned, Hispanic-owned, etc), women-owned, vet-owned, small biz, etc), are pushed for higher consideration.

In this case, it looks like they found a bunch to use as a "scapegoat" to "blame" (unbeknownst to them apparently) for the upcoming concentration camp blowback, when the time comes.

[Bayard]

1. Sounds like sad old history

Where a few members of a tribe would sign a treaty giving away huge swaths of land to the U.S. government, while the rest of the tribe was blindsided. Many were shoved onto reservations in this manner.

"A newly established tribal business entity quietly signed a nearly $30 million federal contract in October to come up with an early design for immigrant detention centers across the U.S. Amid the backlash, the tribe says it’s trying to get out of it."

[DBoon]

2. aren't reservations already a type of detention center?

[Bayard]

4. Tribal Chairman Joseph "Zeke" Rupnick:

“We know our Indian reservations were the government’s first attempts at detention centers,” Rupnick said in the video message. “We were placed here because we were prisoners of war. So we must ask ourselves why we would ever participate in something that mirrors the harm and the trauma once done to our people.”

[BidenRocks]

3. Nice casino you have in Milwaukee.

Park an ICE van in the lot. It doesn't have to be real.
Sure would be a shame if your customers went elsewhere.

Prisons? Really?