Biden Showers Cash on Ex-CIA Contractor to Transfer Migrants

Published May 03 2021 at 9:05 AM GMT

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Joe Biden once pledged to 'undo the moral and national shame" of the Trump administration's border policies'and even voiced remorse over some actions taken under President Barack Obama.
But The Daily Beast has found that his administration is redoubling the federal government's dealings with a notorious contractor accused of abusing immigrants and its own employees.
The Biden administration has, in the past month, enlarged one contract and signed another entirely new one'worth a collective $136 million'with a controversial private security and intelligence firm for the transport of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in government custody.
MVM, Inc., a company previously perhaps best known for acting as a contractor for the CIA and the NSA in Iraq, has in recent years become a major player in the US government's treatment of asylum-seekers, all the while inviting scrutiny for an apparently lax approach to the safety of those in its care.
During the infamous 2018 family separation policy, MVM was found to be holding children, including some separated from their parents, in an abandoned Phoenix office building.