Trump's Immigrant Child Detentions Mean $458 Million for Nonprofit
...The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data.
The nonprofit, Southwest Key Programs Inc., is to be paid more than $458 million in fiscal 2018, according to the data -- the most among the organizations, government agencies and companies that run a detention and care system for immigrant children on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services. Southwest Key has about a dozen facilities in Texas, including a site at a former WalMart Inc. store in Brownsville that has drawn attention from members of Congress and national news organizations...
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-06-19/trump-migrant-child-detentions-mean-458-million-for-nonprofit?__twitter_impression=true
From the Southwest Key Programs website:
“Southwest Key Programs uses a unique model to diversify its sources of revenue, generate a sustainable future for the organization and create jobs. Our nonprofit formed Southwest Key Enterprises, Inc., a for-profit holding company with a portfolio of several small businesses. These social enterprises are solely owned by Southwest Key's parent nonprofit, which means they have no shareholders, and all profits go back to support our mission.”
http://www.swkey.org/enterprises/
Link is good, but really slooooow now - I imagine traffic has increased massively in the last day or two
————PLEASE, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND: “Our nonprofit formed Southwest Key Enterprises, Inc., a for-profit holding company with a portfolio of several small businesses.“ - - so is this a profit or nonprofit operation? THANK YOU———-
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This time holding kids, who will be so traumatized they will likely produce a high proportion of career criminals for future incarceration.
June 16, 2018
"We're not the bad guys" | CEO of nonprofit that manages Brownsville shelter speaks to KVUE
An Austin nonprofit organization known for keeping kids on the right path is now at the center of a controversy -- and its CEO wants to set the record straight.
Southwest Key Programs, headquartered in East Austin, is under scrutiny over its shelters which house hundreds of undocumented children.
Public outcry began about two weeks ago after staff at the shelter in Brownsville denied a senator from Oregon access to the facility.
"When he showed up, he didn't even come through the front door, where everybody comes in through the gate. He just came in through the side with a group of people. People didn't know who he was," the nonprofit's CEO Dr. Juan Sanchez told KVUE. "We asked him who he was. He said he was a senator. He didn't have permission from the Office of Refugee Resettlement. We couldn't let him in."
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/were-not-the-bad-guys-ceo-of-nonprofit-that-manages-brownsville-shelter-speaks-to-kvue/269-564890590
