‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans

Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportations

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Silicon Valley has played a sizable part in the early days of Donald Trump's new administration, but another familiar face in the Maga-verse is beginning to emerge: businessman Erik Prince, oft-described by his critics as a living Bond villain".

Prince is the most famous mercenary of the contemporary era and the founder of the now defunct private military company Blackwater. For a time, it was a prolific privateer in the war on terror", racking up millions in US government contracts by providing soldiers of fortune to the CIA, Pentagon and beyond.