or this is has the chance of blowing up in his face. His time there may have been completely innocuous. Or, perhaps not. But he needs to explain it.
McKinsey has done a ton of work with Trump's ICE. And the narrative is not good.
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 workers 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 — actions whose success could be measured in numbers — with little acknowledgment that these policies affected thousands of human beings.
Like I said, his time there may be a non-subject. But apparently he is the biggest recipient of McKinsey Consulting employee's campaign donations and hosted a fundraiser for them last month.
There is a lot more to read here at ProPublica.
And here is a story at HuffPo that talks about Buttigieg's time there his refusal to answer questions.
McKinsey has done a ton of work with Trump's ICE. And the narrative is not good.
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 workers 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 — actions whose success could be measured in numbers — with little acknowledgment that these policies affected thousands of human beings.
Like I said, his time there may be a non-subject. But apparently he is the biggest recipient of McKinsey Consulting employee's campaign donations and hosted a fundraiser for them last month.
There is a lot more to read here at ProPublica.
And here is a story at HuffPo that talks about Buttigieg's time there his refusal to answer questions.
