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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Carry Out Its Immigration Policies
McKinsey's bread and butter is hurting people for profit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-helped-the-trump-administration-implement-its-immigration-policies
This article is co-published with The New York Times.
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.
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How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Carry Out Its Immigration Policies (Original Post)
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2019
OP
Sure. It's important for people to learn about these consulting companies, demand transparency
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2019
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OnDoutside
(19,960 posts)1. Echoes of German Business complicity with the Nazis.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,356 posts)2. Oh, McKinsey will do business with anyone who pays.
They're beyond complicit -- they're a driver of global misery in the name of "efficiency," whether it's in dictatorships, democracies, board rooms or back rooms.
OnDoutside
(19,960 posts)3. They're not alone in that, unfortunately.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,356 posts)4. Sure. It's important for people to learn about these consulting companies, demand transparency
from those who do business with them and critically examine the work they do. Most people don't really understand what these companies do.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,356 posts)5. Afternoon kick.