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    The Corporate Interests Behind The Homestead Migrant Youth Detention Center

    The U.S. government's "Zero-Tolerance" policy on immigration created a surge in the number of children that are locked up in detention facilities. The largest migrant youth detention facility in the U.S. is the Homestead detention center in Florida. It holds at least 2,000 children and is the only for-profit migrant youth detention facility to date. The Homestead detention center is operated by Comprehensive Health Services (CHS), a subsidiary of Caliburn International Corporation, which is owned by private equity firm DC Capital Partners.


    The Homestead Detention Center

    The Homestead immigrant youth detention facility has the capacity to hold 2,350 people. As of March 2019, Comprehensive Health Services has received nearly half a billion dollars from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to run the detention center. The Homestead facility was previously used as a Job Corps training center. It has operated as an “influx care facility” site for unaccompanied undocumented minors from June 2016 to April 2017 and was reopened for that purpose again in March 2018. On December 19, 2018, Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Representative Judy Chu introduced bicameral legislation that called for the closure of the Homestead facility. Neither has been put to the floor for a vote.


    Defined by a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson as an “active temporary unaccompanied alien children program facility”, Homestead is intended to detain asylum-seeking youth temporarily until they are assigned to an adult sponsor during their asylum review process. The facility detains both youth that arrived at the border unaccompanied and youth forcibly separated from their family under the Trump Administration’s “Zero-Tolerance" policy. Homestead's designation as a temporary "influx” or “overflow” facility means that youth are sent there when other permanent youth detention facilities are at capacity.


    On December 26, 2016, HHS contracted CHS to massively expand the Homestead facility. This expansion was announced on the same day that HHS disclosed the closure of another major migrant youth detention facility in Tornillo, Texas, dubbed “Tent-City.” The closure happened because the Tornillo facility’s non-profit operator, BCFS Health and Human Services Emergency Management, decided to not renew its contract with HHS following public pressure over the treatment of youth at the facility. Since the closure of the Tornillo detention center, CHS’ Homestead facility is the only unlicensed migrant youth detention facility in the U.S. and the largest youth detention facility overall, housing one out of every six asylum-seeking youth.


    The Homestead facility, like its predecessor at Tornillo, is located on federal land, exempting it from state licensing, child welfare, and state health regulations intended to protect children under government custody. Therefore, CHS is exempt from screening its employees through Florida’s child abuse and neglect background check system. However, the facility is still subject to federal regulations and all CHS staff undergo FBI background checks. Still, in June 2017 a former Homestead shelter worker was charged and found guilty of illicit sexual activity and exchanging explicit videos with minors at the shelter. In addition to exemption from state safety regulations, CHS is not required to provide formal schooling or any other “appropriate educational services” to the youth at Homestead, even though many are detained there for months. CHS claims to offer educational services, but teachers employed at Homestead are not mandated to hold any teaching credentials. In addition, to facilitate the rapid expansion of the Homestead facility, the Trump administration has loosened federal health care requirements regarding clinician-to-child ratios for children under government supervision. All of these exemptions and requirement rollbacks come at the expense of the physical and mental health of the detained asylum-seeking youth.


    In 2016, the State of Florida gave a $600,000 tax break to CHS to encourage it to expand its facilities in Florida instead of Virginia. Florida Governor Rick Scott commented: “I am proud to announce that Comprehensive Health Services Inc. has chosen Florida over Virginia for their expansion (...) I look forward to seeing CHSi’s growth in Florida and we will continue to do all we can to cut taxes and reduce burdensome regulations so more businesses can succeed in our state.” Brevard County also contributed $190,000 in property tax breaks over ten years to encourage CHS to move to Florida.


    In January 2019, CHS was issued licenses to operate three new permanent immigrant youth detention facilities in South Texas that could together detain over 600 children. On April 1, 2019, HHS announced plans to expand the detention capacity of the Homestead facility from 2,350 youth to 3,200 youth in mid-April 2019.


    CHS, Caliburn, and DC Capital

    Comprehensive Health Services LLC (CHS) is a medical management company that contracts with governments and large businesses to provide various medical-related services ranging from on-site medical examinations to disaster preparedness. The company was founded in 1975, but entered the migrant detention business only in 2016, when it was contracted by HHS to run the Homestead detention center. This contract with HHS is a significant part of CHS’ business. The company attributed a 12.9 percent decrease in revenue between 2016 and 2017 to receiving smaller contracts for the Homestead facility.


    In March 2018, private equity firm DC Capital Partners LLC bought CHS for $131 million. This was the same month that Homestead was reopened as an “influx care facility” for undocumented migrant youth, making CHS’ contract with HSS more lucrative. DC Capital Partners was founded in 2007 and is based in Alexandria, Virginia. It specializes in investing in companies that provide various services to the U.S. federal government and other large enterprises. Its other assets include companies such as:


    •Michael Baker International Inc - a management services company based in Pittsburgh, PA that built more than 500 miles of the fence on the U.S.-Mexico border in 2006

    •Project Management Services Inc (PMSI) - a Texas-based construction engineering company that constructs army garrisons.

    •Owl Cyber Defense - an electronics manufacturer in Danbury, Connecticut, which assists the National Security Administration (NSA) and other intelligence agencies with cyber warfare and security.

    Until 2012, DC Capital Partners also owned International Development Solutions (IDS), a mercenary company that trains the U.S. military as well as U.S. backed foreign armed groups across the world including in Afghanistan.


    In August 2018, DC Capital Partners merged CHS with three other companies it had acquired into the Caliburn International Corporation. The other three companies that form Caliburn are:


    •Sallyport Global - a logistics company based in Reston, Virginia, which provides support services to government entities, international organizations, and corporations working in Iraq. Among other contracts it has with the U.S. Department of Defense, Sallyport operates the Balad Air Force Base in Iraq. More on that below.

    •Janus Global Operations - a Tennessee-based company that specializes in demining post-war and conflict zone areas to facilitate oil, gas, and mineral extraction by the extractive industry.

    •Project Time & Cost (PT&C) - an Atlanta-based engineering services company that specializes in providing construction, acquisition, cost, program, project, and schedule management services.


    Caliburn is heavily dependent on contracts from the U.S. federal government. In 2017, the combined revenue of Caliburn’s four subsidiaries amounted to $785 million, 88 percent of which came from contracts with federal agencies. CHS accounted for $187 million of revenue. In October 2018, DC Capital Partners attempted to make Caliburn a publicly traded company and registered for that purpose an Initial Public Offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The IPO was to be underwritten by Jefferies Financial Group, Bank of America, and SunTrust Banks. However, reports of the controversies involving CHS’ Homestead operations and Sallyport’s Balad Air Force Base operations caused Caliburn to withdraw its application, remaining in the complete ownership of DC Partners.


    Sallyport Global

    Sallyport Global is one of the companies that form Caliburn International together with CHS. The company supports U.S. military and strategic objectives under a for-profit model. In 2014, Sallyport was contracted by the U.S. Department of Defense to operate the Balad Air Force Base in Iraq as a private military contractor. The company has received more than $1.75 billion for that contract since 2014, and it employs over 1,800 mercenaries from around the globe to run the base.


    In a series of reports by the Daily Beast and the Government Accountability Project, current and former Sallyport employees described a chaotic base, plagued by corruption, misuse of funds, theft, prostitution, animal abuse, and rivaling mercenary factions. The reports detail nationalist cliques within Sallyport’s mercenary ranks, including a group of white South African mercenaries who circulated white supremacist, pro-Apartheid and anti-semitic media. Testimonies by former and current employees charged the group of white South African mercenaries with widespread racism and mistreatment of Iraqi soldiers and mercenaries of Color.


    Further reporting by the Daily Beast details potential corruption and bribery by Sallyport to receive the Balad Air Force base contract through its ties with Kuwaiti company Afaq, which is connected to former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.


    In January 2019, Sallyport’s contract to run the Balad Air Force Base was renewed until January 2020 for a reported $375 million.


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    Sallyport Global

    Sallyport Definition: A secure gate or passage in a fortified place for use by troops or law enforcement.



    Sallyport was founded in 2003 to support the post war reconstruction efforts in Iraq and has since expanded its operations across the globe ensuring the safety, security, and comfort of our clients worldwide.

    Sallyport specializes in operations within complex environments providing expertise in life and logistics support, base operations and maintenance, security and risk management, and construction. We have successfully enabled mission success for a variety of organizations, governments, and international agencies such as: The United Nations, USAID, The World Bank, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, Foreign Ministries, International Oil Companies, and a number of private clients. Since 2003, Sallyport has built a network of global partners with experience in more than 150 countries, successfully executing more than 100 different programs. Sallyport provides exceptional service to clients while maintaining the highest level of integrity and respect for the environments in which we operate.


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    So they are being provided free shelter, free food, free educational programs, free health care, wow they've never had it so good. Alternatively we could close down these centers, then they would be homeless on the street, resorting to debasing themselves or victimization for food.
    I just want objectivity on this forum and will point out flawed sources or points of view at my leisure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    So they are being provided free shelter, free food, free educational programs, free health care, wow they've never had it so good. Alternatively we could close down these centers, then they would be homeless on the street, resorting to debasing themselves or victimization for food.

    Looks like "restrictionism" is a global initiative, which serves the global special interest.

    Always, always, follow the money.


    Which is why they encourage Eminent Domain (see federal lands in the OP article), while we pay tax dollars to restrict more of our freedoms.
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    Its like those NGOs in Libya who are trying to profit out of the African migrants in Libya whom many of those migrants arent even Libyan migrants.
    Its always about profits.

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    $.5 Billion / 2350 = $212,765.96 per person


    I don't remember the last time I saw a 2 page bill. It was read twice but it went nowhere. Maybe our reps felt, how should I put it... intimidated by the MIC?


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    Quote Originally Posted by PAF View Post
    Looks like "restrictionism" is a global initiative, which serves the global special interest.

    Always, always, follow the money.


    Which is why they encourage Eminent Domain (see federal lands in the OP article), while we pay tax dollars to restrict more of our freedoms.
    No, globalists like you want no borders, no wall, no USA at all, they just try to profit from anything.

    We should close down these detention centers and boot them all back across the border instead.
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    Bump for the evening shift.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PAF View Post
    Bump for the evening shift.
    Evening shift concurs with morning shift. Shut down the centers and ship them the $#@! back home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    Evening shift concurs with morning shift. Shut down the centers and ship them the $#@! back home.
    What about the "global" contractors our "government" just signed contracts with, the same government that wants a wall, to line the pockets of Michael Baker International? I don't remember trump tweeting about that...?
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    Bump for the Global MIC lobbyists/contractors.

    Because if Trump can’t/won’t expose them before or even after the contracts are signed, at least I can.
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    Should we continue to not call for the End to Welfare, while we continue to fully fund the MIC?

    Should we implement more MIC solutions, which sacrifices our Liberty, for the security that the Special Interest provides?

    Lots of information in the OP, take a look.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PAF View Post
    The answer is still the same.

    Close them down and boot the invaders back across the border instead, then don't let any more in.
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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAF View Post
    Should we continue to not call for the End to Welfare, while we continue to fully fund the MIC?
    Nobody here is doing that.

    Quote Originally Posted by PAF View Post
    Should we implement more MIC solutions, which sacrifices our Liberty, for the security that the Special Interest provides?
    We should secure the border so they don't have an excuse for police state measures inside the country.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Nobody here is doing that.
    Well under progress.

    We should secure the border so they don't have an excuse for police state measures inside the country.
    Yes, we should have MIC secure the border so that MIC won’t put police state inside our country. I see.

    Furthermore, too late:

    This OP Article, and also this:

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ation-Priority

    This:

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...in-the-Swamp-)

    And this:

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...scal-Year-2020


    Golly SS, you sure are smart. I wish I could be little again so that I could take your Liberty Class

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAF View Post
    Well under progress.



    Yes, we should have MIC secure the border so that MIC won’t put police state inside our country. I see.

    Furthermore, too late:

    This OP Article, and also this:

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ation-Priority

    This:

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...in-the-Swamp-)

    And this:

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...scal-Year-2020


    Golly SS, you sure are smart. I wish I could be little again so that I could take your Liberty Class

    Your way only makes it worse, it ensures that welfare will never be cut and that the police state will get ever stronger.


    But you couldn't possibly intend that, could you?
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Your way only makes it worse, it ensures that welfare will never be cut and that the police state will get ever stronger.


    But you couldn't possibly intend that, could you?
    I am a well intentioned commie. Equality and justice for everybody on the planet!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Your way only makes it worse, it ensures that welfare will never be cut and that the police state will get ever stronger.


    But you couldn't possibly intend that, could you?

    I see. Corporate welfare must be increased in order to decrease it. And increasing funding to the global contractors in the OP will inherently reduce the number of Americans on welfare. Fed.gov promises you that
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    Quote Originally Posted by PAF View Post
    I see. Corporate welfare must be increased in order to decrease it. And increasing funding to the global contractors in the OP will inherently reduce the number of Americans on welfare. Fed.gov promises you that
    I said to close down the detention center and send them all back.

    You say to allow in millions of communists.

    Your way only makes it worse, it ensures that welfare will never be cut and that the police state will get ever stronger.


    But you couldn't possibly intend that, could you?
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Bump
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