The $97 Million Utah Warehouse ICE Bought for $145 Million
Trump wants industrial-size immigration jails, and money is no obstacle.
Nick Miroff
Nick Miroff is a staff writer at The Atlantic who covers immigration, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S.-Mexico border. He was a reporter for 18 years at The Washington Post, where he won an Overseas Press Club award and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for reporting on Latin America. Nick can be reached on Signal at NickMiroff.78
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