ProPublica describes the role of McKinsey, those brilliant technocrats, in designing the practices that characterized Trump’s cruel crackdown on immigration. The problem with McKinsey is arrogance: they believe in their omniscience, absent human values.
Sadly, the McKinsey mindset (data counts more than people) has been imposed on many school districts across the nation that hired them as management consultants.
Here is the latest McKinsey disaster:
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 House’s 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.
McKinsey’s 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.
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It needs to be noted that Pete Buttigieg worked for McKinsey for three years and has never disclosed what he did there.
And he does a “duck and run” every time he is confronted with questions of his former employment with McKinsey. HMMMMM? Confidentiality agreements upon leaving the company, I guess?
That’s what he claims. He says he would have no problem releasing the list of clients he worked for, but that it’s not his decision to make because he signed nondisclosure agreements.
How convenient.
I suspect he knows full well that McKinsey will not release the list, since it would almost certainly decrease Buttigiegs chances to get nominated and McKinseys chances to get contracts.
He’ll disclose them shortly. McKinsey signed off yesterday.
And one has to wonder how much $$$$ McKinsey has invested in Mayor Pete’s presidential campaign?
“…staff members questioned whether saving pennies on food and medical care for detainees justified the potential human cost.”
Trump never seems to have any problems with this type of thinking. After all, they are ONLY brown people. HIs hatred, bigotry and the amount of hurt he puts on people never ends. It’s just fine to give billions more to the wealthy, but let’s not waste money on immigrants.
How can anyone with any sense of morality or ethics accept Trump? The only way I can see it is that Fox watchers don’t ever get the full story on anything that Trump does. Many just agree that these are evil people who deserve what they are getting. They come here and break our laws so they deserve detentions in camps. These immigrants even send their children alone across the border. [Don’t people recognize that this is the ultimate recourse when nothing else works to survive?]
I’m sorry to have to say this, but I think–& have been thinking this for awhile–that Mayor Pete is actually the DNC’s DINO choice, as per Biden’s faltering. His rise in the polls is interesting. My thought is that they think that he would so appeal to younger voters & the LGBTQ community (& they do, indeed, turn out to vote, big time {kudos!}), thus stealing votes that might have gone to Sanders or Warren…Sanders, especially.
I have been reading that it’s not understood why Booker hasn’t picked up steam, & all the wrong reasons written. We readers here know why–corporate shill, pro-charter, talks out of both sides of his mouth, a politician from the get-go.
Two terrible choices. I’d rather have seen both of them drop out rather than Harris!