Doug MacMillan

Washington, D.C.

Corporate Accountability Reporter at The Washington Post

Corporate accountability reporter @washingtonpost. Formerly @WSJ @Bloomberg @BW. Same thing we do every night, Pinky 🐭 [email protected]

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Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan |Aaron Schaffer

Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm (washingtonpost.com) Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm By Douglas MacMillan; Aaron Schaffer 2025052711000600 A leader of the Trump administration's effort to detain and deport millions of immigrants recently earned consulting fees from a detention center company that is expected to benefit financially from the crackdown, according to a federal ethics filing. Before he joined the...
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan |Aaron Schaffer

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras (washingtonpost.com) Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras By Douglas MacMillan; Aaron Schaffer 2025051910002000 NEW ORLEANS — For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city that may violate municipal guardrails around use of the...
Giant tent rises in Florida to house hundreds of detained immigrants

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan

Giant tent rises in Florida to house hundreds of detained immigrants (washingtonpost.com) Giant tent rises in Florida to house hundreds of detained immigrants By Douglas MacMillan 2025042500415800 An Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami plans to move up to 400 immigrant detainees into a large tent that was erected in recent weeks to accommodate a surging population of migrants, said Rep. Frederica S.
Immigrants forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan

Immigrants forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers (washingtonpost.com) Immigrants forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers By Douglas MacMillan 2025041810020000 At a crowded Miami detention center, some immigrants are being held in conference rooms with no toilets. The Cibola County prison in New Mexico doesn't have enough chairs for all the immigrant detainees to eat their meals at a table.
Trump told people to buy. Hours later, his tariff pause sent markets soaring.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Rachel Lerman |Doug MacMillan

Trump told people to buy. Hours later, his tariff pause sent markets soaring. (washingtonpost.com) Trump told people to buy. Hours later, his tariff pause sent markets soaring. By Rachel Lerman; Douglas MacMillan 2025040923164500 Less than four hours before President Donald Trump's announcement that he was pausing his tariffs on most countries sent markets soaring, he told his 9.4 million followers on his social media platform that it was a good time to buy.
Companies warn investors that DOGE’s federal cuts might hurt business

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan |Aaron Schaffer |Daniel Gilbert

Elon Musk’s sweeping makeover of the federal government in recent weeks is reverberating across the private sector, where companies have started expressing fear and uncertainty about disruptions these changes might inflict on their businesses.
Trump officials to reopen Texas detention center for migrant families

Mar 5, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Maria Sacchetti |Arelis R. HernÃ¡ndez |Doug MacMillan

The Trump administration is reopening a sprawling detention center in South Texas for migrant families facing deportation, resuming the practice of detaining children four years after the Biden administration ended it, according to the private prison contractor that runs the facility.
Private prison firms prepare to reopen closed facilities to hold immigrants

Feb 28, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Marianne LeVine |Doug MacMillan |Silvia Foster-Frau

The Trump administration is racing to dramatically expand the nation’s capacity for immigrant detainees, enlisting the United States military and the private prison industry to reopen or repurpose shuttered and aging facilities, many of which have been accused of poor care. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday it would reopen Delaney Hall in Newark, a facility owned by private prison giant GEO Group that shut down in 2023.
Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches

Jan 13, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan |David Ovalle |Aaron Schaffer
'Deny, defend, depose': Words on bullet casings hint at motive as online sleuths racing to catch CEO's killer

Dec 5, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Drew Harwell |Caitlin Gilbert |Doug MacMillan

This handout image released by the New York Police Department (NYPD) on December 5, 2024 shows the individual sought in connection to the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. - Photo / NYPD via AFPAmateur internet sleuths are racing to identify the gunman who killed the chief of the United States’ largest health insurer in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, hoping to piece together clues and beat police investigators at their own high-profile manhunt.