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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcKinsey & Company consulting firm proposed cutting spending on food, med care for detainees
How McKinsey Helped The Trump Administration Detain And Deport ImmigrantsThe consulting firm proposed cuts in spending on food for migrants, as well as on medical care and supervision of detainees.
Just days after he took office in 2017, President Donald Trump set out to make good on his campaign pledge to halt illegal immigration. In a pair of executive orders, he ordered all legally available resources to be shifted to border detention facilities and called for hiring 10,000 new immigration officers.
The logistical challenges were daunting, but as luck would have it, Immigration and Customs Enforcement already had a partner on its payroll: McKinsey & Company, an international consulting firm brought on under the Obama administration to help engineer an organizational transformation in the ICE division charged with deporting migrants who are in the United States unlawfully.
ICE quickly redirected McKinsey toward helping the agency figure out how to execute the White Houses clampdown on illegal immigration.
But the money-saving recommendations the consultants came up with made some career ICE staff uncomfortable. They proposed cuts in spending on food for migrants, as well as on medical care and supervision of detainees, according to interviews with people who worked on the project for both ICE and McKinsey and 1,500 pages of documents obtained from the agency after ProPublica filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.
McKinseys team also looked for ways to accelerate the deportation process, provoking worries among some ICE staff members that the recommendations risked short-circuiting due process protections for migrants fighting removal from the United States. The consultants, three people who worked on the project said, seemed focused solely on cutting costs and speeding up deportations activities whose success could be measured in numbers with little acknowledgment that these policies affected thousands of human beings.
In what one former official described as heated meetings with McKinsey consultants, agency staff members questioned whether saving pennies on food and medical care for detainees justified the potential human cost.
But the consulting firms sway at ICE grew to the point that McKinseys staff even ghostwrote a government contracting document that defined the consulting teams own responsibilities and justified the firms retention, a contract extension worth $2.2 million. Can they do that? an ICE official wrote to a contracting officer in May 2017.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mckinsey-consulting-trump-immigration-deportation_n_5de6e0ebe4b0d50f32aa7f54
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McKinsey & Company consulting firm proposed cutting spending on food, med care for detainees (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Dec 2019
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badhair77
(4,208 posts)1. Tell me again how these conservatives are pro-life.
And super religious.
RandySF
(58,511 posts)2. My ex-fianc works for McKinsey
Shes just cold-blooded enough to enough to have worked on that project.