The scandalous practices that McKinsey allegedly promoted have long been the standard operating procedures of America’s immigration-enforcement regime. EricLevitz writes
This is America. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by consulting, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through Excel spreadsheets at dawn looking for a thrifty fix. This is, presumably, how Allen Ginsberg would have opened “Howl,” had he been born a millennial.
[T]he 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.
Now, ICE employs more than 20,000 people. There are surely plenty of empathic, public-spirited individuals working within its bureaucracy. And there’s no reason to doubt that some were horrified by McKinsey’s recommendations, and mounted noble efforts to resist them.
It’s worth noting that due process isn’t some charitable gesture we bestow on the guilty, but a vital protection we afford the wrongfully accused. For this reason, denying basic legal protections to people facing deportation doesn’t merely betray American values; it threatens Americans’ liberty. By some estimates, ICE has attempted to detain and deport upward of 3,000 U.S. citizens since 2005.
To be fair, if ICE rigorously investigated every allegation of sexual abuse in its facilities, it would struggle to meet its deportation objectives. In ignoring evidence that it is presiding over pervasive sexual torture, the agency is merely trying to pursue its mission with all due efficiency. This supremacy of “mission” over human rights is also reflected in CBP’s record-keeping procedures.
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