Need info on Halliburton detention camps

[maynard]

I just heard about the KBR contract for detention camps.....can someone give me some more info...This makes me sick.....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. From what I've heard

they will be for housing illegal aliens. One is supposed to be near Berryville AR-my local peace group is mulling this over right now.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Why are we housing them? Why don't we just deport them?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. Intimidation of liberals, I think

Many here have speculated that that is what they are really for. I hope that all it is is a way to give Haliburton more money without any clear purpose.

[babylonsister]

2. I think it's around 325M$, so far...

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/topix/index.js...

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The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs. The contingency support contract provides for planning and, if required, initiation of specific engineering, construction and logistics support tasks to establish, operate and maintain one or more expansion facilities.

The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster. In the event of a natural disaster, the contractor could be tasked with providing housing for ICE personnel performing law enforcement functions in support of relief efforts.

ICE is one of three agencies that make up the Border and Transportation Security (BTS) Directorate of the DHS. The mission of the BTS Directorate is to secure the nation's air, land and sea borders. ICE, the largest investigative arm of the DHS, is responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the nation's border, economic, transportation and infrastructure security.

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[Flabbergasted]

5. How will the showering facilities be handled????

[woodsprite]

7. I here they'll have "gas" hot water. n/t

[niallmac]

8. Perish the thought.

:scared:

[babylonsister]

10. Jesus, Mary, and the rest of the kids.

I know; it's wrong. Damn.

[Botany]

3. this help?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x230529#230797

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Prison Planet

Prison Planet - Halliburton

The article originally ran in the New York Times, but you can only find an excerpt of it there now. Alex Jones saved it to his website before the Times removed it.

Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers

RACHEL L. SWARNS / NY Times | February 4 2006

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.

KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said.

[NanceGreggs]

9. Watch for MORE shit like this ...

... the Bush Regime has to come up with lots of 'necessary' projects to award to Halliburton/KBR before they're out of office.

I don't think it's as sinister as it appears. It's just a way to funnel more taxpayers' dollars into the hands of their cronies. They realize that even if they manage to get another Repub into the WH in 2008 (Doubtful, IMHO), the new guy won't be as beholding to Halliburton as the present pretender.

It's like the multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art morgue that was built to handle Katrina casualties. They're already dismantling it, after it being in existence for just a few months. But Halliburton already cashed the cheque for building it -- so what do they care?

I'm calling it now: Within months of the BushBaby being out of office, there will be an announcement that he's been hired by Halliburton as a 'consultant' or a 'member of the board', at an exhorbitant stipend, for which he will show up at a shareholders' meeting for fifteen minutes annually.

It will be his 'payback' for the money he's managed to put in their pockets during his tenure in office.

That's the Bu$hCo mantra: "Leave no billionaire behind."

[Neil Lisst]

12. I agree. Primary purpose is MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL!

This is Bill Colby's wet dream. Outsourcing military work to contractors, whose networks and can funnel much money to the RNC and Bush designees.

Secondary purpose - as stated. Last but not least - if those pesky American activists don't snap to the next time the War President gets his war paint on - just something for us to think about.

They're engaged in a psyops mission now, which involves disrupting and intimidating people on the left. YOUR government at work, muscling you because you disagree with the president.

[NanceGreggs]

13. A personal challenge, My Dearest Neil ...

... can you depict the above scenario in three panels or less?

I KNOW you can ...

[Neil Lisst]

17. I'd like to. It will take several frames.

I'll have to think about.

[babylonsister]

15. I pray he gets dismantled before he gets 'off'. He's filth. nt

[Capn Sunshine]

11. Straight from Halliburton's website

they're proud of this contact.

Supposedly this is a reaction to a perceived need to handle a HUGE influx from the south, if an oil-rich Latin American country explodes spontaneously.

[OneBlueSky]

14. there's more to it than just the Halliburton contract . . .

check out some of the links here . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=328519&mesg_id=328941