Trump's Immigration Policies Make Millions For Defense Contractors

Defense contractors are cashing in with the administration’s horrible immigration policies, and these policies likely won’t change as long as there’s money to be made. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.

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Defense contractors are again cashing in with administration's horrible immigration policies and these policies won't likely change as long as there's money to be made. Now this is a story to me, I looked at this story, it's the contractors, just one contractor, MVM, is where this story focused. MVM is a contractor, they were a defense contractor, but now they're saying, listen, we have this ability to handle all the problems with children crossing the border and then we have to be able to detain them, take care of them, make sure they eat right, have housing, and we're the people that do that. Okay?

Now the interesting about it, what struck me about this story, it's just another pigs at the trough for contractors. Okay. Pigs at the trough, what I mean is these people, I don't know if you know this right now, there are more multi- multi million dollar homes around the Washington D.C. area right now than any time in history. You know who they are? They're defense contractors. Okay? They made so much money in Iraq, in Afghanistan, they're always looking for the next war. Okay? They're the ones that were chumming up, yeah let's go to war with Russia over Hillary's election because it's so important to us. We cared so much about Hillary, let's go to war.

They're the same people who are always making the big defense money. So now, what we have is now they're making a transition. Every time you see something like this border issue come up, you're gonna see these little characters coming out of Washington D.C. and saying, we're perfectly suited to handle this kind of problem. How many times have we seen it? I mean, whether it's a natural disaster, contractors come in besides FEMA, it is just money. It is pigs at the trough and that's what we have happening on the border right now. Already.

It is and it's a lot easier for these companies instead of having to go ship all their people over to Iraq or Afghanistan where MVM, this group you mentioned, they were doing plenty of work over there. They were working for the CIA, logistics, security, all kinds of vague terms for government contracts, which is what they all do. And so now they're saying, hey, what we want to do is we want to take care of all these kids that you're taking away from their parents when they cross the border. We've got tons of people, they know everything about kids.

Have you ever done it before? No.

Right.

No, we've never done it, we've never done this before, but we're good war contractors.

Yeah, I took care of my nephew one day, I know how to do this. And so they have been posting all of these job postings that they've uncovered here, that all deal with some kind of child care. They're trying to hire people left and right, just all over the place, in anticipation of these contracts which they've now been awarded, I think a small one for about 8 million that's gonna go through 2022.

Yeah.

So that shows you right there. There is no end in sight for this policy. It doesn't matter who comes together, if you have Laura Bush and Obama and the Democrats saying this is horrible, it's pretty much set in stone. We're handing out contracts for the next four, six years.

Okay.

To do this, it's going to continue.

All right, they're using- this is a story we covered last week. Where we found out that during the Obama years that the level of abuse for these children was over the top.