Private-Contractors

MVM Inc. detains mother and infant at O'Hare Sonesta hotel for five days

2025-06-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

ICE contractor MVM Inc. detained Valentina Galvis and her infant son at the Sonesta O’Hare hotel in Chicago for five days in June 2025, continuing the practice of using commercial hotels as unofficial detention centers. MVM employee JoAnna Granado transported them from the hotel. Investigation …

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During Title 42, unaccompanied children were held in hotels by contractors (e.g., Hampton Inn) before expulsion attempts

2020-07-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 5/10

Associated Press reporting in July and August 2020, along with litigation by the Texas Civil Rights Project, revealed DHS contractors held migrant children, some as young as 1, in hotels (including Hampton Inns) without standard child‑welfare protections under the Title 42 expulsion policy. …

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MVM Inc operates shadow detention network using hotels and unmarked buildings for children

2020-04-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Private security contractor MVM Inc. detained migrant children in Hampton Inn hotels across Arizona and Texas border cities before expelling them under Title 42. The company held at least 29 children in hotels in April 2020, increasing to 80 by May, with children as young as 1 year old detained …

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70% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors

2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 6/10

Snowden revelations in 2013 exposed that 70% of the $52.6 billion “black budget” went to private contractors. One in four intelligence workers was a contractor, with firms like Booz Allen Hamilton among 1,900 companies supplying tens of thousands of analysts. Post-9/11, intelligence …

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Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation

2007-09-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Blackwater private military contractors’ killing of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square exposes systematic corporate-state fusion accountability crisis where privatized government military functions operate beyond constitutional and legal constraints. The massacre demonstrates …

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