When President Donald Trump’s administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, … it handed the project on a military base to a small business that … lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer.

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    7 days ago

    This is after spending 450m on a tent in Florida that’s since been shut down. Turns out we did have the money… It’s just not for the people.

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      Likely 445m of that just went to pockets. The infrastructure shown there was in the thousands, not hundreds of millions.

      It’s all grift.

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        It’s not like they need the funds to build it. If it’s anything like the gulag in Florida it’ll be shuddered only months after construction.

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      Yeah, Big Gubbermint spending large amounts of money to help people? What are you, a pussy?

      That money and that Big Gubbermint is for punching down! Merica! It’s so grrr-eat now.