Nick Miroff
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395 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Nick Miroff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're planning to convert them into large mass detention centers with capacity for, in some places, for up to 10,000 detainees.
I mean, this is stuff we've just never seen in this country before.
They have $38 billion to convert these facilities and to operate them through the rest of Trump's term.
These are central to their plan to carry out mass deportations and to reach their goal of a million deportations a year, which they fell far short of in Trump's first year.
And yet, Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, as they were acquiring these warehouses and implementing this plan, didn't do any of the local political work it would need to reassure jurisdictions, even in Republican-dominated jurisdictions,
to reassure local residents about what they were doing.
And so they have been facing this backlash to the ICE plan from people who, you know, voted for Trump but don't necessarily want a 5,000-person ICE detention center in their county.
And ICE needs those jurisdictions to approve their permits for water and sewer and all of the renovations that they're planning to do.
And so this is what I'm tracking, this plan and the possibility of, you know, mass detention centers being built out around the United States that are really going to facilitate their broader goals.
Pleasure.
Thank you.
Good to be back with you.
I think it's a sign of the knee-jerk defensive posture that they are in.
It goes hand in hand with the aggressive deployment of these officers and agents in these cities with marching orders to, you know, I mean, let's think about the F around and find out ethos of our foreign policy adventures in the current moment.
I think it's also being applied in a domestic context.
And there is diminishing patience with public pushback, with protest tactics.
And when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day... With the idea that officers and agents are going to be restrained and are going to try to avoid engaging directly with the protests.
And so when she immediately leapt to, you know, defend Officer Ross's decisions... An act of domestic terrorism.
I saw that as an eagerness to both send a kind of political signal to the president's base, but also a signal to the broader DHS workforce, which includes ICE, that this White House and this administration is basically going to defend you no matter what you do.
Well, you know, these videos were like a Rorschach test for the country and our politics.
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