Aaron Reikland Melnick
Senior fellow at the American Immigration Council who provides legal and policy analysis on immigration detention conditions, oversight, and impacts on detainees.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 35min
Who will profit off of ICE’s new detention warehouses?
Aaron Reikland Melnick, a senior fellow who studies immigration detention policy, and Douglas McMillan, a Washington Post reporter who uncovered the warehouse plan, discuss ICE’s $38 billion proposal to convert commercial warehouses into massive detention centers. They cover the scale of the build-out, contractors poised to profit, rapid retrofit challenges, oversight gaps, and the human toll of turning warehouses into detention facilities.
