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BumRushDaShow

(162,297 posts)
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 06:40 AM Saturday

Trump admin is 'funneling $10 billion through the US Navy' to ramp up migrant detention center construction

Source: The Independent

Friday 24 October 2025 18:55 EDT


The Trump administration is funneling $10 billion from the Department of Homeland Security through the U.S. Navy to ramp up its construction of migrant detention centers across the country, according to a report.

Construction on the facilities, which could hold up to 10,000 migrants each, could begin as soon as next month, sources close to the project told CNN.

The DHS is leaning on the Navy to hire companies for the construction and maintenance of the detention facilities, which will reportedly be spread across Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania.

The construction plans are the latest example of how the Trump administration is wielding the power of the U.S. military to carry out its anti-immigration agenda.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dhs-navy-migrant-detention-center-contracts-b2851925.html



Instead of taking that $10 billion and building hospitals and clinics in rural areas and urban areas (where vulture capitalists sucked the life out of a number of hospital systems and then closed them), they are wasting money on concentration camps.

The construction plans are the latest example of how the Trump administration is wielding the power of the U.S. military to carry out its anti-immigration agenda.


No, it's the latest example of his obscene Waste. Fraud. Abuse.
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Trump admin is 'funneling $10 billion through the US Navy' to ramp up migrant detention center construction (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Saturday OP
But snap.................... Lovie777 Saturday #1
What a huge waste of money, all while cutting so much that has made America what it is. Swede Saturday #2
plan to enrage oldinmtdem92 Saturday #3
As usual, Trump treats funds allocated by Congress as a slush fund for his projects. thought crime Yesterday #4

Swede

(37,735 posts)
2. What a huge waste of money, all while cutting so much that has made America what it is.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 07:26 AM
Saturday

It's insanity.

oldinmtdem92

(78 posts)
3. plan to enrage
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 11:05 AM
Saturday

i think trumps plan is to so enrage the public , then use the insurrection act to kill or imprison all that disagree, hope I'm wrong.

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